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Love these videos. It's like stepford wives on botox. Perma-smiles everywhere you look, and every outlet amazingly signed-up to a great, easy to use new service. Suddenly, you wake up. You've been drooling on your keyboard again. Now get back on Lotus Notes and try again to attach that 14mb file, you fool! - all about everyone

Christ, imagine the manual on that thing.. - all about everyone

I like this. One form of social behaviour moderating another, without the state or law influencing matters. - all about everyone

this is scarily similar to a the wall's smile machine, isn't it? - all about everyone

Oh bum. - all about everyone

How to Make a Multitouch Table - MTbiggie - all about everyone

Is this actually real? - all about everyone

This piggy bank is alive and gets hungry, it is more like a pet, so you have to take care of it and feed it with money using your credit card whenever it gets hungry. - all about everyone

Not sure I believe this. - all about everyone

First look: Gravity is making interest graphs of your social content - all about everyone

i-crop is part of PepsiCo's five-year plan to reduce water usage by 50%. The technology, however, is currently only available to PepsiCo-affiliated growers, which raises interesting questions about the relationship between corporate interests and social good in innovation, as well as bespeaking the disconnect between the value of open-source software and the fact that the best-funded research initiatives, most competent scientists and highest-grade technology tend to be subsidized by private corporations. - all about everyone

I was recently attended the Pwoer to the Pixel conference in London. Here's my take on the event. - all about everyone

McKinsey Quarterly - High Tech - Strategy & Analysis - all about everyone

Going to try out the iPhone app when next in London, and have a half an hour to wander around. - all about everyone

Great way to get someone's attention, that might actually help save their lives! - all about everyone

Personally, I'm not sure this will fly. Just a bit too creepy. But then, once upon a day, so was the idea of being watched by video surveillance cameras? - all about everyone

Google’s Stylebot - all about everyone

Brands, please note: "I told her, I can create a blog for you and get you onto Facebook. We can get you onto Twitter, get the whole library ready. But there's an intangible that you can't buy and I can't teach. People on the Internet see through any dishonesty. So if your intention is, 'I want to get what you have. I want them to be my fans,' they'll never be your fans. Because they can feel that you're trying to use them." - all about everyone

The Fun Theory award winner - all about everyone

Another reason to want a job at Google. - all about everyone

"The philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark has argued that humans have always been ‘natural-born cyborgs,’ that is, they have always collaborated and merged with non-biological props and aids in order to find better environments for thinking." - all about everyone

Love what these guys are doing. I am inspired, but also a bit jealous, i have to admit. - all about everyone

Bit of transmedia storytelling for Tron. - all about everyone

This is great, firstly its a trailer for a book? But then it's funny too! That's value. When's the film out again? Oh, no it's a book. - all about everyone

"The CHARM approach integrates practice theory from sociology, the social norm approach from social psychology, and digital technologies to investigate novel routes to sustainable behaviour change. Social psychology research shows that our everyday activities are influenced by what we believe to be 'normal' behaviour. With this in mind, the social norm approach attempts to change behaviour in socially desirable ways by telling people what other people do. This approach has been successfully employed in the contexts of alcohol and substance abuse, and sustainability issues such as electricity consumption, recycling and hotel towel reuse." - all about everyone

"An example of how this approach could be used is that of location-aware information acquisition while walking in a town centre. You might feel a 'tick' on your phone's vibration motor, making you aware that there is information available about something in your environment. Your rich context understanding abilities would tell you how likely this 'tick' was to be of interest, if you ignore the cue and walk on, the negotiation would end there and then. If you are curious, you might gesture with the phone at likely targets in your surroundings, and get a response from several of them. If you are further intrigued, you may continue to interact with these potential targets, possibly moving from the vibro-tactile to an audio display, gaining information by an active exploration of the environment, something we have evolved to do naturally." - all about everyone

“It’s giving the consumer even more inside access than the buyer in the front row,” said James Gardner, founder and chief executive of Createthe Group, which is working on the runway live streams for Marc Jacobs and Burberry. “They’re able to put the product in their shopping bag, pay with their credit card and check out before the buyer is even finished watching the show and goes to the showroom the next day.” - all about everyone

"he Internet of Things, when real world objects are connected to the Internet, has been slow to attract the attention of budding entrepreneurs. However, there has been some startup action in so-called "social objects." We've covered two companies in this domain in recent times, StickyBits and TalesOfThings. The New York Times profiled a third company in this space over the weekend, Itizen." - all about everyone

"A strange loop arises when, by moving up or down through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started." - all about everyone

"In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference." - all about everyone