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June 2010 Archives

Wednesday, 30th June 2010

Internet of Things

Kuniavsky's Orange Cone: Designing Read-Write Web-Created Things

A group of popular Web device designers briefly meet and draw up a sketch of their newest gadget. Once they all agree, they hit save and they're done. By the end of the day, hundreds of truckloads of their latest Internet of Things device is not only in the hands of customers on every continent, but each device has already been uniquely modified…

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How Digital Media is Attracting New Arts Audiences

In the age of 1080p HDTVs, when almost every home has at least one computer and state-of-the-art mobile phones are seen in the hands of grade-schoolers, its hard to remember a time when viewing media required a trip to a theater. We've come a long way since those days, but theaters still put on plays and musicals, symphonies still perform, and…

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Wedoist Introduces Real-Time Contemporary Project Management

Amir Salihefendic, the mastermind of Todoist and Plurk, has introduced another -ism with Wedoist. Wedoist is a real-time project management tool - think along Basecamp lines. Amir has folded into the system a number of tech trends, hoping to point the product into the future.

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Web Apps With Push Notifications: W3C Begins Work to Make it Happen

Real-time alerts and notifications are a powerful feature being added to more applications every day; the addition of real-time notifications can make a big difference in user experience and peoples' work performance when using apps. Unfortunately, there's not one standard way to easily code these notifications across platforms and there's very…

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Investor Blogs Weigh in on Foursquare Funding

With news breaking late yesterday afternoon about Foursquare's closing a $20 million Series B round, it's not surprising that many investor blogs from last night through this morning were updated with posts offering their individual takes the deal. Was it a good investment? Was it a wise move for Foursquare? What next? Ben Horowitz wrote a post…

Audrey Watters comments

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