CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2011-12-07 22:48:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2011: The Year in Photos, Part 2 of 3 is even better than Part 1, which I posted earlier...

2011-11-16 02:34:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Why the Internet of Things finally makes sense

After a decade of hearing about "the Internet of things", where everything will have an IP address, I'm starting to finally believe it. What's changed? The Open Hardware movement, which is doing for connected devices what the Web did for information.

The old vision of the Internet of Things came to us from the likes of Cisco and Nokia, which were trying to promote end-to-end connected device standards (that used their gear, natch). Think of that as the 'Information Superhighway" era of the net, those days in the early 90s when the wired future was going to be brought to us by AT&T and Cablevision.

The new vision is more akin to the Web, which was brought to us by, well, us. The engineers agreed on some basic open standards -- HTTP, HTML, TCP/IP -- and we did all the rest, creating the Web... more »

2011-11-02 02:22:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Amazing photo series on The Atlantic - Population 7 Billion
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/population-seven-billion/100176/

2011-10-29 12:05:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Circle of 100+ tech writers

Caroline Irvine shared a circle with you.

2011-10-27 02:04:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Magical Technology (extra bonus: A Google+ Magic Trick)

You might have seen +Marco Tempest's video on TED where he fooled the audience with three iPhones. But do you know how he did it? (His TED video is at http://www.ted.com/talks/marco_tempest_the_magic_of_truth_and_lies_on_ipods.html you should watch that one first, because if you watch my video first it'll blow the illusion).

I visited his studio in New York last week to get a look.

What was even better was he gave me a preview of stuff he'll do at the LeWeb Conference in December in Paris and, even, did a cool Google+ trick too.

Oh, and make sure you don't miss his last two tricks. Those are, well, wow.

I think any TED speaker better see this. Why? The bar is going up on performance and it won't be easy to match. Even after you see the secrets.

This is a... more »

2011-10-18 11:07:32 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Quantum levitation! Amazing!!
(source: +Manuel Dorne - http://korben.info/la-super-supra.html)

2011-10-15 01:32:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

great slideshow by CEO of Fab
http://betashop.com/post/11394335084/21things

2011-10-12 11:00:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Do you think social media has had an impact on how you feel about world events?
http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2011/10/11/has-social-media-changed-your-world-view/

2011-10-07 02:34:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Mind = blown

If you're not madly in love with the American West, full-screen this video, turn up your sound and prepare to fall in love.

These time-lapsed shots were taken by Dustin Farrell in Utah and Arizona: http://www.vimeo.com/29950141

Props to Gizmodo, of all people: http://gizmodo.com/5847467/is-this-the-most-amazing-time-lapse-video-yet