Create LED Wrenches
Brilliant Solution: Inventor Creates LED Wrenches: "We've all been there -- cursing like a sailor trying to tighten a bolt we can't see. A San Diego inventor comes up with a light-equipped wrench. Why didn't we think of that?"
Home injection molding
Home injection molding: "
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[Kenneth Maxon] is a wizard who only does things one way, beautifully. While out of the average hacker’s production capabilities, his injection molding machine is amazing to behold. The machine has all features a commercial model would. It heats and cools the mold, produces over a ton of pressure to inject plastic with, and ejects parts automatically to name a few.
Feck the Ankle-Biting "Normals"
Q: How many times have we read this same line, below? A: Too many times to prevent an immediate sprint to the loo to vomit with revulsion, every time:
While early [insert feckin' amazing technology] roll-outs in [trial area] may have been trying to push the [feckin' amazing] idea too early -- and with immature technology -- now the situation has reversed and the pull is all from the user."Too early" ... "immature" ... where the feck do you think all your amazing new stuff comes from, monkeys? Feck the normals. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Keep building the better future even if the monkeys don't deserve it; because they don't. Do it for you because it is who you are and what you DO. Finally, do all you can to eliminate the VC's from the equation. The coded language above is one of their favorite ways to beat you down take YOUR innovation from you. Don't let it happen. Money is a zero-value-add pure commodity. Innovation and Human Creativity are the exact opposite.
Incorporate Real-time #socialcognition into Conference Planning and Execution
As far as I know, the Emerging Communications Conference, eComm09, is the first conference to incorporate pre-conceived #hashtags as a twitter-mediated #socialcognition backchannel into its conference planning and execution as we've been evangelizing for the past six or seven months.
Congratulations to Lee Dryburgh and all the summit planners!
Congratulations to Lee Dryburgh and all the summit planners!
LG shows off ‘Dick Tracy’ wristwatch phone
About a half an inch thick, device has a touch-screen interface. LG Electronics plans to introduce a wrist phone later this year, giving reality a chance of catching up with the comic-strip hero who famously used a two-way "Wrist TV."
Facebook: FAIL
We've been tilting toward this one since about the same time we called Time of Death of Web 2.0, a good six months before Techcrunch dared the same proclamation -- AFTER it mattered.
Today, we are officially calling the end of Facebook's reign and the rise of the Friendfeed model. In the end, open, transparent, flexible, and uncompromisingly adaptable wins over closed, walled, proprietary. AGAIN.
All this clamoring to "Connect" suddenly is the last desperate grasping. "Oh wait, we didn't mean to be "that" Closed." Grasping that may last a couple years; nonetheless, AOL-style Game Over.
The analogy of Apple's success is often paraded as a kind of ultimate victory for the closed and proprietary, but what is MacOS actually built upon? A custom version of an OPEN *IX OPERATING SYSTEM. Underneath it all, is essentially BSD, right?
So Apple is actually the ultimate triumph of OPEN SOFTWARE PLATFORMS with the option of building unique, custom, supported builds. It is also the triumph of USER-CENTRIC DESIGN.
Friendfeed is the current social web fire hose most headed in that direction; however, whoever can blow away Friendfeed's HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING (HIP) interface, could knock them down a notch in a matter of weeks or months.
Yep, we're also today asserting first claim upon the Era of HIP UI. The bottleneck has become Human Attention and Human Information Processing capabilities. As humans, we each possess varying asymptotic natural aptitudes; however, we share the fundamental ASYMPTOTIC characteristic of reaching a point beyond which we simply CANNOT EFFECTIVELY PARSE, UNDERSTAND, AND SYNTHESIZE *MORE* KNOWLEDGE per unit time.
Call it "Peak Cognition" to play on the peak oil phenomenon. This point is relatively tangential here, yet fundamental to where we go NEXT. Everyone knows where we've BEEN. What we want to know and must DECIDE is where we choose to GO, from here. It's not written in any stars, it's created in our every day CHOICES.
NOBODY can predict the future; rather, every day we contribute to BUILDING our future. So, you can simply ask yourself, which future am *I* building today? Is this really the future I want? If not, STOP IT. Make a better choice.
Bottom line for this post: Facebook's Fleeting Billion Trillion Dollar Moment has passed. Zuckerberg missed it.
FAIL.
Today, we are officially calling the end of Facebook's reign and the rise of the Friendfeed model. In the end, open, transparent, flexible, and uncompromisingly adaptable wins over closed, walled, proprietary. AGAIN.
All this clamoring to "Connect" suddenly is the last desperate grasping. "Oh wait, we didn't mean to be "that" Closed." Grasping that may last a couple years; nonetheless, AOL-style Game Over.
The analogy of Apple's success is often paraded as a kind of ultimate victory for the closed and proprietary, but what is MacOS actually built upon? A custom version of an OPEN *IX OPERATING SYSTEM. Underneath it all, is essentially BSD, right?
So Apple is actually the ultimate triumph of OPEN SOFTWARE PLATFORMS with the option of building unique, custom, supported builds. It is also the triumph of USER-CENTRIC DESIGN.
Friendfeed is the current social web fire hose most headed in that direction; however, whoever can blow away Friendfeed's HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING (HIP) interface, could knock them down a notch in a matter of weeks or months.
Yep, we're also today asserting first claim upon the Era of HIP UI. The bottleneck has become Human Attention and Human Information Processing capabilities. As humans, we each possess varying asymptotic natural aptitudes; however, we share the fundamental ASYMPTOTIC characteristic of reaching a point beyond which we simply CANNOT EFFECTIVELY PARSE, UNDERSTAND, AND SYNTHESIZE *MORE* KNOWLEDGE per unit time.
Call it "Peak Cognition" to play on the peak oil phenomenon. This point is relatively tangential here, yet fundamental to where we go NEXT. Everyone knows where we've BEEN. What we want to know and must DECIDE is where we choose to GO, from here. It's not written in any stars, it's created in our every day CHOICES.
NOBODY can predict the future; rather, every day we contribute to BUILDING our future. So, you can simply ask yourself, which future am *I* building today? Is this really the future I want? If not, STOP IT. Make a better choice.
Bottom line for this post: Facebook's Fleeting Billion Trillion Dollar Moment has passed. Zuckerberg missed it.
FAIL.
TokBox: The Trillian++ of Video Messaging?
Tokbox keeps Unbundling, Unleashing, Integratin' n' Rockin' Video Messaging
- Share YouTube Videos, Slideshares and more during video calls!
- Video IM to nearly every platform
- Super easy video mail
Latest Newsletter:
Dear TokBox friends,
We’ve been listening to your feature suggestions! Here’s the lowdown on what we've built...
All Eyes on Instant Messaging
As you may have noticed, we've just released a newer, more connected TokBox than ever before. In a very ambitious effort by our fantastic engineering team, you can now video call all your friends through AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Google Talk. We think that’s pretty rad.
Friends, friends, and more friends
TokBox is all about connecting to your friends and family, and we've made it easier for them to see your gorgeous mug any day, every day. Now whenever someone adds you as a friend you'll get an email update and a humongous red button at the top of your Friend List telling you someone wants to be your "Friend" and chat you up. You'll soon have more friends than you could want! Which brings us to...
Privacy!
Too much of a good thing is never a good thing, so we've hooked up all sorts of ways for you to block those unwanted callers, video mails, anything you deem "too much information". Go to the "Privacy" link near the bottom of the left-hand pane, and block, deny, and flat out stop all forms of unwanted contact. The lovely Lauren can tell you all about it.
As always, stay tuned. Much more is on the way.
Now it’s up to you to help us improve and make TokBox greater than ever. Call us. Send us vmail. Email us (email? seriously? I hear TokBox vmail is all the rage). We love you. Thank you for all the support.
- The TokBox Team
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User As Content: Revenue Share-Enabling Software for Social Media Contributors
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