Kurt Laitner
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Gallery - The quest for Mandelbrot fractals in 3D - Image 5 - New ScientistThe quest for Mandelbrot fractals in 3D A group of fractal image makers claim to have ...
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5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use CasesThe Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are now starting to appear ...
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What Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide - Advertising Age - DigitalNextWhat Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide In the Next-Gen Web, These Tools Provide Important Human Filters Much digital ink has been spent trying to explain the likes of Twitter and Twine. Often, they are characterized as the poster children of the Web 2.0 trend. Pundits ...
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Theme-park dummy trick becomes teleconference tool - tech - 02 November 2009 - New ScientistA theme-park animatronic trick could allow people act more naturally in videoconferences. Shader lamps is a technique that projects an animated face that looks three-dimensional onto a dummy's blank face. Now the trick has been exploited to project a person's features onto a animatronic ...
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ICT Results - Social networking meets ambient intelligenceSharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically. A team of European researchers are working on merging the instant sharing of social ...
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69What Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide - Advertising Age - DigitalNextLOL "Twine, Bing, Google, and Twitter all rolled up into one big fat honking internet doobie." now that's a testimonialKurt Laitner added to Attention 6 days ago
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69What Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide - Advertising Age - DigitalNext"It sure would be nice if there was a functional mechanism that could do as this author suggests and somehow incorporate the immediacy of Twitter--the subconscious flow--with the slower more relativistic activity--conscious effort--.of Twine" I am optimistic someone will do this on top of google wave....Kurt Laitner added to Attention 6 days ago
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69What Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide - Advertising Age - DigitalNext"Twitter is all about immediacy" This is exactly my point about twitter materializing attention. But you are correct that following implies trust - I think following directs attention, as trust does. Filtering refines the directed-ness of trust. So one can get trust out of following and ...Kurt Laitner added to Attention 6 days ago
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69What Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide - Advertising Age - DigitalNextTwitter is more about materializing attention than trust, but clearly these two dimensions are inter-relatedKurt Laitner added to Attention 8 days ago
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69The Museum of Unworkable Devices | Beyond The Beyonda wonderful addition to this collectionKurt Laitner added to The User's Guide to Imaginary Gadgets 2 weeks ago