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You've heard the physicists speculate on parallel universes, space travel, and time travel. Now come and hear a physicist interview the real experts in these subjects: a bestselling science fiction writer and pioneer of virtual reality discuss what you get when you look at science through fiction. - David Orban

We decided to create The Mobile Internet Report largely in PowerPoint and publish it on the web, expecting that bits and pieces of it will be cut / pasted / redistributed and debated / dismissed / lauded. Our goal is to get our thoughts and data into the conversation about what may be the biggest technology trend ever, one that may help make us all more informed in ways that are unique to the web circa 2009, and beyond. We present our thoughts in three ways: 1) “The Mobile Internet Report Setup” – a 92-slide presentation that excerpts highlights of the key themes from the report. 2) “The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes” – a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in “The Mobile Internet Report.” 3) “The Mobile Internet Report” – a 424 page report which explores 8 major themes in depth and includes the two aforementioned slide presentations + related overview text. - David Orban

[#luca_info] :-) - Luca Perugini

ma 'sti libri di Doctorow son poi leggibili? che roba è? chi ha provato? - ubu

quoto David e Fabio, letto X, ora mi scarico Makers - Stefano Mizzella

Go proverbs summarize wisdom in easy-to-remember phrases. The proverbs apply surprisingly often and are regularly used in game comments. - David Orban

This site offers guidance and advice on choosing merchant account providers. We allow you to compare vendors and pricing. Our service is free, confidential and objective. - David Orban

Potete segnalare la presenza di rifiuti, veicoli e macchinari abbandonati, siti inquinati, coperture in eternit e altri materiali pericolosi presenti sul nostro territorio, allo scopo di tracciare una mappa nazionale dell'emergenza rifiuti. - David Orban

Non mi intendo di creazione siti web ma l'ho trovato davvero ottimamente organizzato e facile da consultare/utilizzare per l'invio segnalazioni rifiuti. Applauso. - pallina60 Loon

provides free real-time information to the public, about ship movements and ports, mainly across the coast-lines of Europe and N.America. The project is currently hosted by the Department of Product and Systems Design Enginnering, University of the Aegean, Greece. The initial data collection is based on the Automatic Identification System (AIS). - David Orban

Council is a loose group of professionals with different ideas and opinions. We sometimes differ and will probably clash. We prefer to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. - David Orban

If you are interested in the internet of things, don’t forget to submit a paper and be part of this conference. - David Orban

The first WiFi scale linked to the internet that automatically register weight, fat and BMI calculation. - David Orban

by Douglas Adams from The Salmon of Doubt copyright 2002 Completely Unexpected Productions Ltd. - David Orban

IBM has unveiled a new cloud system designed to make it easier for companies to develop and roll out business intelligence services internally. - David Orban

Interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action. - David Orban

FedEx Corp. (FDX) today is announcing a sensor-enabled device that can wirelessly feed real-time data about a package's whereabouts, condition and other metrics to the Internet. The service, called SenseAware, will launch this spring. Its initial target markets are the health-care and life-sciences businesses, industries that often need to know the precise location of the products (drugs, test results, samples) they ship. - David Orban

Jing Li, a physical scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, has used the hardware connectivity made available in iPhone OS 3.0 to create a "compact, low-cost, low-power, high speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing" external attachment. The prototype device, which is said to be about the size of a postage stamp, connects to the iPhone through its 30-pin dock connector. - David Orban

Qi Hardware, founded on the belief in open hardware, produces mass market quality hardware applying free software principles to consumer electronics. The three fundamental elements in our development are copyleft hardware, upstream kernels and community driven software. Each of these form a vital part of our Qi or “energy flow”. Only if developers truly know how the device functions can they exploit its maximum potential, only if we maintain and move the kernel upstream can applications make use of the newest technology, and only if we listen to the community and work together with our customers can we redefine freedom. - David Orban

I want it!! - Massimo Sgrelli

I don't think it actually works, but it is still a cool decoration to have in somebody's house. :) - David Orban

but, as we love biodiversity, we want to ensure there are N possible mutations.. - Stefano Quintarelli

So you can sort the plugs (eg. German, Japanese, UK, Italia, etc.) by their fitness to a particular environment, and as time goes by observe their evolution? I can't: only see useless variation :) - David Orban

Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Sandberg begins by observing that, collectively, Austria has around 821,000,000 IQ points, but that most contemporary research ignores the potential of group cognition and rather focuses on business-related scenarios of how relatively small teams complete particular tasks. For Sandberg, increased communication is key to increasing intelligence. “The best cognitive drug gives you a 20% advantage on certain tests,” he says, “but asking a set of your friends to help you out might make you much better.” Communication is also key in preserving both culture and new technologies. Sandberg suggests that Tasmanians lost key technologies around 1500 B.C. simply because not enough people knew about them. People tend to imitate rather than innovate, and through innovation new technologies and techniques spread across society. This is happening faster today than ever before via the blogosphere, Wikipedia, and other online c - David Orban

virtual citadel of radically progressive thought. Here you'll find a philosophy that fuses such diverse and seemingly unrelated concepts as apocalyptic futurism, atheism, childfreeness, cryonics, hedonism, and political incorrectness into a unique, and uniquely empowering whole. - David Orban

We bring together creators looking for an effective way to distribute their work with file-sharing sites willing to help promote it and get it out. We call this coalition of P2P sites the Distribution Coalition, or DISCO. - David Orban

The Battle of Ideas 2009 will be a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art. - David Orban

Google's Data Liberation Team is actively working towards convenient, complete import and export of all data, in a form that can be produced or consumed by competing products. What would you like to see liberated and why? - David Orban

Uncovering the ways virtual worlds change our politics, policy, and culture. - David Orban

Della serie: meglio la quantità della qualità ? :-) - michele ficara from iPhone

Embeh... anche lo spam viene incluso nel mio feed con gli altri reply - David Orban

ooc is a modern, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level, sexy programming language. it's translated to pure C with a source-to-source compiler. it strives to be powerful, modular, extensible, portable, yet simple and fast. - David Orban

Yes, it's a Flash CS5 compiler that targets iPhone, currently in some sort of beta. It uses LLVM - heh. You should be able to find a lot of reviews and analysis around, it was quite a buzz a few weeks ago. :) - Folletto Malefico

aha! Sorry... just back from Mars - David Orban

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Open phone API platform, in minutes (call your code: Asterisk/AGI, HTTP/JSON, Adhearsion/Ruby, Asterisk-Java) - David Orban

"Non ho ritenuto che valesse la pena di proseguire. Cioè ho pensato che investire più tempo in ricerche presso fonti ancora più autorevoli (quali?) non avrebbe portato a niente. È molto bassa la probabilità che il brano sia genuino. A mio avviso non lo è, ma è stato scritto in questi anni, in Italia, da parte di qualcuno che riteneva di aver davvero bisogno di dimostrare con testimonianze false l'assurdità della posizione razzista. Essendo questa una posizione però dogmatica, non razionale, non c'è la possibilità di "convertire" un razzista..." - David Orban