June 2012
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“Content blocking apps are growing in popularity. You can block football scores...”
– The Ex Lover Blocker App | Adverblog
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Radiolab App: Be a Part of the Nerdiest Show On...
Radiolab App: Be a Part of the Nerdiest Show On the Airwaves [Video]
Published on Gizmodo | shared via feedly mobile
WNYC’s Radiolab is audio storytelling at its best: Experimental, wonderful, and weird. The show’s new app for Android and iOS is designed to get you in on the action of making the crazy sound happen.
The app has a built-in recorder that allows you to capture audio...
“This tells the story of a passion and a twisting plot to put the particular...”
– Steidl
WatchWith networked infrastructures mixing with physical fabric of the cities (check out iPavement, paving tiles with embedded microcomputer), there is a gradually growing body of urban data. Often this data is not collected or not stored. Often it is stored without being shared. A steady trickling out of this urban data, however, is taking place through open data platforms and various public-private...
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Impossible →
“Imagine if kindness was currency. Impossible is a social giving network based on cooperation, not competition; abundance, not scarcity; and offering opportunities to help everyone help each other. If you want to learn more, watch this.
We have amazing people from Wikipedia, Google, Wolff Olins and Ethical Markets giving their time to help realize our vision.”
Watchaltnytterfarlig:
Brain Bricks by LEGO, putting your real world creations into the game. (via @PSFK)
How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A... →
“But how much would people actually pay for HBO GO, if it were an option? Earlier this evening, web designer Jake Caputo tried to find out, by creating a website called takemymoneyhbo.com. The site implored users to tell it just how much they would pay for a standalone subscription to HBO GO, tweeting out whatever dollar value you said that you’d pay.
(For what it’s worth, I said that I’d...
A game to test the power of social →
For months everyone has been talking about whether or not social has real power- the issue has been discussed and debated back and forth.
It’s taken someone in the world of gaming to put social to the test by coming up with an ingenious idea to test its power.
Peter Molyneux is one of the mavericks of the gaming world- something of a veteran who’s been through the wars at Microsoft and beyond....
Obsolescence | Museum of Endangered Sounds... →
Obsolescence | Museum of Endangered Sounds presents archive of noises of old tech
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museum of endangered sounds
“created by american brendan chilcutt, the ‘museum of endangered sounds‘ is an online archive of the archaic noises of technology: the connecting of 56k modems, loading of VCRs, and operators of payphones. additional clips include a...
