Most of us must have seen illuminated gloves and funny cloaks with fancy lighting systems built into them, which serve no purpose than grabbing attention of a set of on-lookers or making you an object of unexplainable fantasy.
But, there is a pair of Multipurpose Gloves with LED lights that serve some purpose, which you may [...]
I recently read an article where 64 graphic designers were asked to record their Myers-Briggs personality type results. For those of you unfamiliar with The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), it asks the taker a series of questions (there are no incorrect answers) and then generates a four-letter acronym that lumps people into one [...]
Guest post by Eric Gesinski.
Doing good website design can take a lot of time. In the case you have a lot of work to do, are there ways to reduce how much time you take up and still produce good website design? Here are 5 website design tips to reduce time costs.
1. Website [...]
Google just announced (on Twitter) Facebook updates integration in its real-time search. Facebook updates Google has access to, is limited to Page Updates made by Owners only unlike Microsoft’s Bing which has deeper access to user information on Facebook.
Though a lot of Facebook users, bloggers, webmasters, brands, etc… have their own [...]Skype has realized the next big buck will come from Mobile VOIP at the same time company also realizes that Skype on mobile is yet to make a mark in the market.
Skype made it intentions of aggressive mobile marketing clear with the latest partnership with Verizon. This deal gives Skype access to [...]
With Google and other search engines giving more importance to the page load time, it’s important to test page speed to where your blog or site stands on the scale ranging between fast and slow.
I recommend every webmaster, especially bloggers to perform regular page speed test in order to keep the page [...]
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Last week’s kerfuffle about foursquare and how it exposes you to would-be burglars was hilarious to me.
More accurately, it’s Twitter that poses the risk, which isn’t a new problem. Foursquare encourages people to socialize their game-playing by adding friends from Facebook, Twitter and GMail. As with any [...]
Once upon a time, when in-car entertainment meant nothing more than listening to radio from a FM transmitter, it was considered a privilege which the upper class families enjoyed in their now-vintage cars.
Since then, in-car entertainment systems have evolved from a radio-based system to incredibly advanced music and entertainment systems with astound sound quality, most [...]
Guest post by Mike Caldwell
This article is for those who want to equip their home office with the latest and greatest in home office technology. Some people are happy with just a pencil and paper in their home office, and then there are those of us who want to have every new gadget that hits [...]With Smartphones becoming as popular and common as Computers and Laptops the next logical thing to do for hackers to evolve and target Smartphone users, the only difference is, its more personal this time!
Though both are harmful but imagine which can cause more damage. A hacked computer or a mobile phone? In my opinion a [...]
I did some printer support over the weekend, which reminded me of the whole “facebook login” fiasco from earlier in the month.
Long story short, the person I was supporting couldn’t get Windows to recognize the printer.
The PC tower was under a desk and in a difficult spot to reach. The area was so snug that [...]
Wall mounted USB power sockets are going to hit the market. Everytime I want to charge my iPod, I look around for a computer USB power source or USB charger. As more gadgets draw power charge from USB ports, a wall mounted USB power outlet is an ideal solution.
Behold the U-Socket, a wall mounter power [...]
LG’s newest acquisition comes in the form of a Windows 7 Logo Certification from Microsoft which means that LG touchscreen Notebook digitizers are now approved by Microsoft for use with Windows 7 OS.
LG has been reportedly working to inscribe multitouch display into its upcoming range of notebooks which would help the customers make the most [...]
Guest post by Justin Freid.
Some amazing statistics have been released on the official Twitter blog touting 50 million tweets per day. Twitter has shown what entrepreneurs call hockey stick or exponential growth since January 2007 to January of 2010.
In January of 2007 Twitter was only seeing about 5,000 tweets per day and as of January 2010 [...]As sure as I eat my breakfast, there are certain blogs that I read first thing in the morning. I’m not a coffee drinker, so caffeine addiction is foreign to me, but if you keep me from my A.M. blog reading, then I can get downright nasty!
Here’s my blog reading routine.
I log into my work [...]
Xpal Power, a company that’s been providing portable powering solutions for mobile phones, netbooks and notebooks, has unveiled its latest product at the MWC 2010. It’s the Xpal Solar Egg.
The Xpal Solar Egg is an egg-shaped gizmo with a special solar panel comfortably tailored on the surface of the Solar Egg pad.
It uses SunBoost solar [...]
Imagine controlling your iPod or mp3 player with your eyes – handsfree movement, no gestures involved, just the movement of your eyeballs to play / pause music. Sound futuristic, right? Well, so let us brief up a word on this captivating thing.
NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile company demonstrated the incredible “eye controlled earphones” at the [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 18, 2010 Top 10 reasons why you ought to apply for the News Entrepreneur Boot Camp By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link You have until midnight Friday Pacific Time on February 19, 2010 to apply for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Why should you apply Because we'll be bringing 20 journalists to Los Angeles in May for an intense , one-week camp in entrepreneurial thinking , and showing you how that applies to publishing a news website . By the end of the camp , you'll not only have been trained in the right mindset to run a successful publishing business , you'll have materials in hand with which you can pursue the funding that you'll need to continue your journalism . career Oh , and we won't charge you a thing for this : It's free . We'll even kick in 250 to help get you to LA . You need more reasons to drop whatever you were planning to do today , and apply Here are :
I’m a thief. Not in the Robin Hood philanthropic way, but in the robbing Peter to pay Paul kind of way. Let me explain. I recently started a blog about my puppy just for the fun of it. Unlike my other blogging endeavors, I have no real goal or agenda. [...]By now you’ve probably realized that a lot of your Web traffic is unexpected. By that I’m talking about the many people who stumble upon your blog in unexpected ways. Whether it’s a random page that has been crawled and ranked well by Google – or some random niche site picking up and [...]
Halfway through a blah post about Google Buzz, I ran across this post about the correlation between Facebook relationship status and happiness.
I’ve largely ignored Facebook for a while now, and it didn’t occur to me until Pete Warden released his initial observations about Facebook and US geography how much statistical gold exists there.
Turns out Facebook [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 11, 2010 How the Vancouver Winter Olympics and other big stories can help a hyperlocal news website grow By Dave Chase 2 comments Archive Link Hyperlocal sites , by definition , are focused on their local community . However , periodically something happens in your community that has national significance that can draw some broader attention . More important is how it can accelerate your reach within your community by exposing your site to a new set of local people . This latter form of traffic is the most . sustainable The reality for most communities is that their neighborhoods either never received coverage from local media or that coverage has pulled back as budgets have tightened . This has left a big opportunity for hyperlocal sites to get a marketing boost like no other . I will share how that has worked tremendously well for my local site www.sunvalleyonline.com so that
Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots.
A post from Signal vs. Noise titled “Computers shouldn’t make people feel like idiots“ has been open in a tab for nearly a week.
Reading it, and other iPad coverage, has me torn. I know that I exist in a world populated by geeks, and I know that many outside this [...]
Thought of something interesting (see disclaimer) yesterday, namely observing the evolution of how design solves problems with software.
Take a common requirement for the interwebs and its viewer, the browser, like wanting to view more than a single web page at a time.
In the first few iterations of browsers, this was possible only by launching multiple [...]As I’ve warned you before, there are a ton of other bloggers applying for that freelance opening. In fact, the last time I was looking for a blogger, I received over 800 inquiries!
That’s a lot of noise to cut through. There are several tactics you can employ to help increase your odds of [...]
: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 9, 2010 Wanted : Required Web journalism skills By Robert Hernandez 9 comments Archive Link Editor's : note OJR welcomes USC's Robert Hernandez , who will be writing for us on technology and . journalism Also , a continuing reminder : We're taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Please consider applying if you're looking for better training on how to make your online news publishing efforts an income-producing business . With our industry in such turmoil , the constant technological changes , the evolution of news consumers and the uncertainty of the future , the question on the minds of veteran and aspiring journalists alike is what skills do I need to stay relevant , employed and . innovative That's the number one question I have gotten over the years . That and equipment recommendations . Everyone has an . answer There have been pieces written recently
Writing and maintaining a blog requires a fair amount of effort. Hence the rise of micro-blogging, which is almost frictionless (one of my favorite interface-isms), creating mountains of content, a long tail for blogging as it were.
That’s actually pretty funny, since blogging was initially the long tail of online content publishing, which was kind of [...]
Rich has been a big proponent of Posterous for a long time. I’ve been meaning to try it out, so here goes.
I saw this link in my Reader today, pretty interesting stuff. I <3 data visualizations, as you know, so it was a gimme. Not sure how he got access to all the data though [...]
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I’ve been thinking about comments lately, mostly because several interesting points have converged to draw my attention.
First, Cult of Mac pointed out that John Gruber’s Daring Fireball will now have comments, via another site, i.e. DaringFireballWithComments.net.
Next, Engadget turned off their comments because the had “really gotten out [...]They come in short spurts and are unannounced; even I am unaware they are about to occur. I’m speaking of blogging blackouts, periods of time where some unknown force keeps me from blogging. Has is it ever happened to you?
These stretches of time find me allergic to the keyboard. I suddenly [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 5, 2010 Writing skill is no longer enough to sustain journalists By Robert Niles 9 comments Archive Link A reminder : We're taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Please consider applying if you're looking for better training on how to make your online news publishing efforts an income-producing business . What's the value of journalism The short answer is , of course , whatever someone will pay for it . But a more thoughtful response gets at why people are willing to exchange something of value for news . information Economics 101 teaches that if more people want something , and the scarcer it is , the higher the price . With millions of new websites competing for people's attention , advertising rates across all media have plunged , threatening news businesses that depend upon advertising income . But the Internet hasn't just created more advertising
Have you noticed the subtle change to the VirtualBox logo? Probably not, but thanks to ReadWriteWeb for pointing out the change.
VirtualBox is one of several open source projects that Sun oversaw, and in his strategy briefing last week, Larry Ellison announced that VirtualBox images will be deployable on Oracle VM, which is great news.
If you [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 3, 2010 Have you talked with a customer recently By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link To encourage OJR readers to apply for our 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp I'm writing again on some of the things you need to know , and skills you might need to develop , to become the successful publisher of a thriving news website . Much of what you'll learn at the camp , should you be one of those selected to attend , focuses on mind-set . The skills necessary to run a news website are remarkably similar to the skills needed to work as a reporter . But the mindsets of a successful entrepreneur and a newsroom reporter , unfortunately , are very often quite . different To that end . have you talked with a customer lately Or a potential one By customer , I mean a person who writes or might someday write you a check to fund your site . Your current boss does not count It could be anI’m a nice guy. I believe in peace, love and harmony. But I also want to be a successful blogger. It’s no secret that controversial posts that take an unabashed stance on a hot-button issue generate serious traffic. If we’re going to be completely honest, sometimes being a pr*ck, is the [...]I often read about how at-home bloggers, and other work-at-home-preneurs, are prone to feeling disconnected from society. Personally, that has not been my experience. While I might not be meeting my newly found ‘blogging buddies’ for drinks anytime soon, I feel that since I started blogging, I have made more connections than I [...]
Wednesday was an interesting day, with two very interesting announcements happening at the same time, one in the consumer space, one in the enterprise space.
I’m talking obviously about the Apple event to announce the iPad and the Oracle-Sun strategy announcement.
It’s well-known that Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison have been friends for many years, and there [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 29, 2010 Will Apple's iPad save the news industry By Robert Niles 5 comments Archive Link Will Apple's new iPad help the news industry Sure . Any new device that encourages people to read and watch more information will help publishers . With a larger screen than Apple's iPod Touch and iPhone , and far better display than we've seen from the Kindle or other e-book readers to date , people moving to the iPad from those devices should be expected to increase their screen time , since they'll be using a more aesthetically pleasing . device But can the iPad save the newspaper industry What features in the new device might help financially struggling newsrooms encourage more people to pay for news delivered online Slow down , folks . First , if you haven't watch this years-old clip from Fox's old Mad TV sketch comedy show , please do now . It's best not to place any industry's hopesNo, it’s not a new reality show, it’s real life.
Blogging saw a busy week to round out the first month of the new decade. Between the announcement of Apple’s “truly magical and revolutionary product,” the first State of the Union address by President Barack Obama, and Pope Benedict XVI’s plea for priests to embrace [...]
Last week my imac (home computer), that my wife uses to run our little lunchbox company begin having some serious issues. Slow access times, constant rebooting and as of yesterday a complete inability to boot. Just a lovely grey screen of solitude much like the image above, until it refused to even show that [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 26, 2010 Build a better journalism career by shifting your focus from writing stories to creating assets By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link We're now taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp at the University of Southern California . I hope that OJR readers will apply for the camp , which will bring 20 journalists to Los Angeles for a week in May for intensive instruction and discussion about starting and growing an online news business . To encourage you to apply I'll be sharing on OJR for the next few weeks some of the topics I'll be discussing in greater depth at the . camp Many of these concepts will reduce to changes in the mindset that journalists bring to the practice of our craft . As journalists , we should understand the power of language . Simply changing some of our vocabulary can result in a profound shift in our practice of journalism , a
Tomorrow is going to be a challenge trying to figure out who’s getting my attention. At noon Larry is going to be revealing the strategy for the Sun acquisition here, and Steve will be releasing his new world saving device the Jesus tablet. I’m sure Larry’s 5 hour presentation tomorrow is going to be riveting, [...]
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As with last week, the geo news has been hot and heavy again this week, but before I get to the tidbits I’ve found interesting, let’s talk about why geo matters or doesn’t.
Unlike social, you shouldn’t be guilted into geo. Not that you were guilted into joining [...]Beginning March 26, 2010, Blogger will no longer support FTP publishing. This means that if you are one of the .5% of Blogger users utilizing an FTP service to publish a blog to your own domain, things are a-changin’. Citing a drain on their “engineering resources,” the Google-owned platform has made the decision in [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review January 22, 2010 Is anyone on staff actually reading the mobile version of your news website By Robert Niles 5 comments Archive Link I've long complained about online news publications that automatically redirect all requests from mobile devices to their mobile home page . The practice kills deep-linking online , which is especially frustrating when the deep link comes from the news organization's own Twitter feed . But today , I'd like to highlight another frustrating practice by some news organizations publishing incomplete articles to the mobile version of their websites or smartphone . apps I'm illustrating two examples here today , but I've encountered so many on my iPhone over the past several weeks that I often wonder if many news organizations employ anyone to actually read their mobile publications , or if they merely entrusted their mobile versions and apps to automated .
iTasveer, one of my favorite online photo printing service has recently launched a wonderful facebook application called Mast Calendar. This application lets you create a personalized calendar with your photographs and lets you put nearly 20+ b’day events. Once you’ve chosen the photographs and events – you can either download a high resolution calendar [...]
Nokia, Blackberry, HTC and who not tried to create the iPhone killer and they miserably failed. Some of the key reason for the failure are – 1) Under powered mobile OS. 2) Under powered Hardware. Many will argue about these two points however, I will be explaining these reasons in detail as you read further. [...]