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"Publishers made 2009 the year of the concept newspaper and magazine. Time Inc. teamed up with a design company, the Wonder Factory, to create a fun concept video of the Sports Illustrated of the future. Then there was another concept video from the Bonnier Group, a Swedish media company, which went a step further and moved the words and images off a screen and onto a table, allowing you to flick, drag and scroll in thin air." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

via Cagdas Seichter http://friendfeed.com/cagdass... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

The pace of innovation can be breathtaking... - TrafficBug

Don't you mean, 'BUTTER not get it jammed'?!# LOL I WIN THE INTERNET AGAIN! - Akiva Moskovitz

MWM, you say oh. Just saw your edit. - Akiva Moskovitz

I felt the same way until my wife made her Grandmother's recipe from Lorraine, which involved... lots of bacon. It's amazing what bacon can do for almost any meal. - Joel Webber

I liked Brussels sprouts even when I was a kid. Of course, I also liked cabbage, with salt and/or butter, and they're basically the same flavor. Also, try Bacon Salt. - Otto

"Evernote -- the uber-popular note-taking application on Windows, Mac, BlackBerry, the Palm Pre and, of course, the iPhone and iPod Touch -- is now available on Android." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Wow, that's pathetic. - LANjackal from IM

What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do... - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch. - Andrew C

Yep...this should get FriendFeed hopping again...LOL - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

OMG Google does know everything! It sees through the PR Spin: the same but different *eye roll* - sofarsoShawn

"After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. The $5 million Mind Machine Project (MMP), a patchwork team of two dozen academics, students and researchers, intends to go back to the discipline's beginnings, rebuilding the field from the ground up. With 20/20 hindsight, a few generations worth of experience, and better, faster technology, this time researchers in AI — an ambiguous field to begin with — plan to get things right." - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

Great share, Shevonne! - TrafficBug

Thanks! I thought it was interesting :) - Shevonne

"People here are also worried about the future. They fret that Bangalore, and India more broadly, will remain a low-cost satellite office of the West for the foreseeable future — more Scranton, Pa., in the American television series “The Office,” than Silicon Valley. Even as the rest of the world has come to admire, envy and fear India’s outsourcing business and its technological prowess, many Indians are disappointed that the country has not quickly moved up to more ambitious and lucrative work from answering phones or writing software. Why, they worry, hasn’t India produced a Google or an Apple? Innovation is hard to measure, but academics who study it say India has the potential to create trend-setting products but is not yet doing so. Indians are granted about half as many American patents for inventions as people and firms in Israel and China. The country’s corporate and government spending on research and development significantly lags behind that of other nations. And venture capitalists finance far fewer companies here than they do elsewhere." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

“To start a services company it really takes you just two or three days to get going,” said Mr. Krishnan, whose book, “From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India,” is to be published next year. “The moment you are looking at manufacturing, there are hundreds of inspectors and regulations.” - pain faced & reported by several of my friends and acquaintances. - Kamath (नमः)

Damn. That'd be vandalized to hell in American schools. And protested. - Itachi

i have a friend also named ken,does he a korean or japanese? - urin

"If you happen to see a sticker with a strange-looking black-and-white bar code in the window of a business in your town, it’s a badge of honor of sorts from Google. Actually, it’s a fully functional bar code - called a QR code -  that’s scannable by mobile phones - including the iPhone and Android devices - to give window shoppers some key information about that business, including reviews, hours and more. But not just anyone can get one of these stickers - at least initially. Companies with this sticker are among the 100,000 most searched-for companies on Google.com and Google Maps, considered to be one of the “Favorite Places on Google.”" - Arnaldo M Pereira from Bookmarklet

By tags, do you mean rfid tags? If so, active ones are still expensive.. actually, even passive ones are. - Arnaldo M Pereira

brilliant video on Lazyfeed now I am going to use it properly - Thomas Power

Very nice video here. I will use this to share with all my people. Thanks Louis. - Amani

Is there any service which would accept input of multiple urls, and return just a single short url pointing to [later on-the-fly-generated] clickable list of these urls? E.g. like this one: http://ff.im/cmS79 - ianf ⌘

Yes; see http://fur.ly and http://1link.in fur.ly's better imo - Itachi

:-) lol - TrafficBug

There are techniques out there to slow things down if you have too many super-smart engineers. If three-martini lunches don't work, try making them use PHP. - Bruce Lewis

It's not clear to me that Twitter did one thing only well -- obvious scalability issues aside, I think a lot of Twitter's success can be chalked up to timing, although I will give them credit for the 'follow' feature which distinguished them from many other sms-to-web gateways that existed before. Still, I dislike a huge volume of human communication taking place over a proprietary... more... - Ray Cromwell

Cool! - TrafficBug

Birds do it too: http://rspb.royalsocietypublis... . - Daniel Mietchen

.@Zee, this is complete madness. There are ARMIES of people just waiting for the chance to completely unseat these kinds of outlets. The "the Worksop Guardian, Ripley & Heanor News, the Whitby Gazette, ..." ?!?! Are they kidding? - Alex Schleber

You post it for the public consumption and they will comment, like it. Don't want that, then don't post it. - CW™

One way to get a lot of likes :) - Bindu Reddy

"Analemma - a trace of the annual movement of the Sun on the sky - is well known among experts of sun-dials and old Earth's globes as a diagram of change of seasons and an equation of time. Between August 30th 1998 and August 19th 1999 I have photographed the Sun 36 times on a single frame of 60-mm film. The pictures were taken exactly at 5:45 UT (Universal time) of every tenth day. Previously, the position of the Sun on the sky was calculated with computer as well as optimal moments of time for taking each of the exposures. However, my success was strongly limited by the weather. Nobody can guarantee fine weather every tenth day even for a few minutes. Approximately, there are 120-170 sunny days a year in Crimea. That made me sure that my aim could be achieved. To do the job, the camera must stay fixed during 12 months. It was difficult to find such a place where the camera would be safe. The solution of the problem was to make a plug-in platform rigidly connected to the camera,... more... - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

simply beautiful! - Adriana Ripandelli

And if you are not wanting to get marketed to? - Cristo

@Justin... completely agree.. - Bindu Reddy

What problems are there in Firefox? - SuezanneC Baskerville

The charts are pretty crummy on my system; they don't get big and clear, they just get big and blurry. - SuezanneC Baskerville from email

*snicker* - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Data's expression makes it! - Kurt Starnes

Moreover, did this originally cluck or oik? - Micah Wittman

OMG OMG OMG - Mark Krynsky