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Friday, August 19, 2011

Kibin is the easiest way to get feedback and editing on your writing.

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Radian6, which was acquired by Salesforce for $326 million earlier this year, has offered some of the world’s largest brands a web-based social media monitoring platform. But the company has not offered a mobile component to clients to monitor brands on the go, until now. Today, Salesforce’s Radian6 is announcing its first mobile presence with a new iOS app.

Radian6 helps clients like Dell, GE, Kodak and UPS monitor, analyze and engage in ‘hundreds of millions’ of social media conversations. The UI is similar to the Radian6 web platform, and agencies and marketers can now monitor overall volume, share of conversation, geographic distribution and more data from the app on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can filter by keyword, media type, date range and more to view conversations.

You can also build customized listening ‘stacks’ based on certain topics, lists, user assignment and sentiment. Managers can actually classify posts, and assign tasks to employees from the app. And users can respond to Tweets, posts, threads, or blog comments right from the app.

The app itself is free for Radian6 users. It’s actually surprising that Radian6 didn’t have a a iPhone app considering that much of social media monitoring for brands happens in realtime and a mobile app helps marketers keep track of conversations on the go. The company says that an Android app is on the ‘product roadmap.’

It should be interesting to see how Salesforce integrates Radian6 with its own products like Chatter. In the past, the CRM giant has said ‘the combination will create a “bridge between public conversations and Chatter” and “enhance the Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud products with social intelligence that customers can act on. Developers building on the Force.com platform also will be able to tap into the power of Radian6, putting the social web into everything they build.”

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Video: Crunchy Logistics Brings Multi-Touch To A 150″ Conference Table

The LCD/LED screen has more than 36 touch-points and uses most of the same multi-touch language that we’re used to, like pinch-to-zoom. The size variations are as follows: 55-inch, 65-inch, 70-inch, 130-inch and 150-inch, but the table measures 1.5-inches thick across all models. The table features interactive gaming, and is compatible with both PC and Mac.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Calculus in 20 Minutes

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Google doodle guitar: Coldplay - Clocks

DANGER ZONE - Google Earth - details under (More info)

Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins

Helicopter -- Off San Diego
32°33'3.93"N, 117°16'27.12"W
Arggg, Google Earth has updated the helicopter away.
But here is a 3D model of the helicopter right where it used to be:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=71235fa0f573a36f5c2d4a8bd4...
Or you can use the time slider to go back and see it again.
And here's another one over water: 21°59'48.19"N, 159°46'45.31"W

Sea Plane Taking Off -- Alaska
61°10'47.75"N, 149°58'30.10"W
The sea plane has finished taking off and is gone now.
You can use the time slider to go back and see it again.
Here's a different one: 55°20'30.64"N, 131°39'17.12"W

Mid-Air Refueling -- California
41°51'7.14"N, 121°28'46.87"W
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy behind a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

Helicopter with Load -- Colorado
39°43'0.38"N, 104°45'12.51"W
Google Earth has been updated. The helicopter has now moved on.
You can use the time slider to go back and see it again.
Here's another one: 30°31'4.45"N, 88° 0'49.66"W

Parasailer -- Sarasota, Florida
27°15'38.66"N, 82°32'53.35"W
The parasailer has been updated away.
Use the time slider to December 31, 2004 to see again.

Goodyear Blimp -- Pompano Beach, Florida
26°15'35.18"N, 80°5'39.71"W
Since a Google Earth update, the blimp has moved on. But, here is a 3D model of it:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=55528b21185f01825c2d4a8bd4...
Or you can use the time slider to go back and see it again.
And here is another one: 51°23'42.95"N, 6°30'15.03"E

The Google+ Song

Starring Ashley Pitman
Vocals by Katie Hines
Music by Sean Motley

LYRICS:
Check my email, got an invite
To a website I don't know
Looked like googlebuzz at first sight,
But my friend said that's a no.
Why did we need, another social network?
Doesn't Facebook work alright?
A new thing for me to learn
This could take all night, Look out!

What is this google +
I don't Need google +
There's another +1 and another +1
What is this google +
Hey, Why's this red thing here?
Go away google +

You want me to put my friends in circles
But circles are for squares
Everday's like Sophie's choice
Trying to choose which friend goes where
But No Parents, or Ex-boyfriends...
Can get in without invites
And when I drunkenly post that he's cute
I can edit it later that night - whoa

I kinda like google +
Can't believe I'm on google +
Oh another hangout, and another hang out
I dig my google +
Hey, old high school friend
You can't join my google +

Friends add me, without me adding them
That feature's really nice
Randos
Uglies
my pot dealer
and all these friend's I've never liked
No one knows, my circle names,
So even good friend's get handpicked
Do you make it into my main feed
or do I add you to my circle of pricks

I'm in love with google plus
I'm judgemental on goggle +
and Another douchebag and another loser
You didn't make my google plus
Hey, Now I'm a facist pig
Thank you google plus!

GLMPS releases very cool new iPhone camera app

Other companies have gotten $41 million to compete in this space. Not GLMPS. What have they done? Just something Instagram, Color, PicPlz, and others have not: combined photography WITH video. Here I talk with two of the co-founders about it and get a demo

Video: World’s biggest touchscreen display is 82-inch beast

Impressive hardware aside, the touchscreen technology introduces some nifty new tricks. The Nvidia graphics processor allows for seamless streaming of a dozen or more videos, which can be be manipulated in all kinds of fancy ways using what the company calls touchcast technology. Users can also embed an application within another, such as a map within a map.

But mind you, the displays aren’t flash-in-the-pan prototypes and can actually be purchased through Perceptive Pixel, though a price has yet to be announced. Let’s just cross our gesture-ready fingers and hope that the panel doesn’t have an outsized cost to match.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Geek Time with Jim Zemlin

The Story of Linux

Imec: Japanese Company Lets Plants Grow On Thin Films Instead Of Soil (Video)

Here’s some amazing tech from Japan: Tokyo-based Mebiol is working on an membrane–based plant cultivation technology called Imec that makes it possible to let plants grow on thin film instead of soil. The film is made of a water-absorbent material called hydrogel and is just “tens of microns” thick.

Mebiol says that tomatoes, radish, cucumber, melons etc. need up to 80% less water to grow when compared with conventional culture and that 1g of SkyGel (that’s the brand name of the hydrogel) absorbs and holds 100ml of water. In contrast to soil, bacteria or viruses have no chance to harm the plants. Another advantage is that SkyGel can be used on various surfaces, including sand, concrete or ice (see this PDF for examples from recent years).

The film can be used to grow plants for 2-3 years before it needs to be replaced, according to the company.

This video, shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo, provides more insight (on both the advantages and the disadvantages of Imec):