See this at: news.bbc.co.uk| Added on 02/13/08

An engineer has promised that within a year he will start selling a car in India that runs on compressed air, producing no emissions at all in towns. The OneCAT will be a five-seater with a glass fibre body, weighing just 350kg and could cost just... See more

An engineer has promised that within a year he will start selling a car in India that runs on compressed air, producing no emissions at all in towns. The OneCAT will be a five-seater with a glass fibre body, weighing just 350kg and could cost just over £2,500. The project is being backed by the Indian conglomerate, Tata for an undisclosed sum. It says the technology may also be used for power generation. The car will be driven by compressed air stored in carbon-fibre tanks. The tanks, built into the chassis, can be filled with air from a compressor in just three minutes - much quicker than a battery car. Alternatively, it can be plugged into the mains for four hours and an on-board compressor will do the job. For long journeys the compressed air driving the pistons can be boosted by a fuel burner which heats the air so it expands and increases the pressure on the pistons. The burner will use all kinds of liquid fuel. The designers say on long journeys the car will do the equivalent of... See less

See this at: tools.seobook.com| Added on 03/14/07

Free Google buttons to help you modify the Google Toolbar to help you have easy access to SEO tools and SEO news to do search engine optimization.

Free Google buttons to help you modify the Google Toolbar to help you have easy access to SEO tools and SEO news to do search engine optimization. See less

See this at: youtube.com| Added on 02/10/07

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. This

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. This See less

See this at: morganstanley.com| Added on 12/13/06

San Francisco, November 2006 Mary Meeker presented at the Web 2.0 conference taking place November 7-9 in San Francisco. Below, we have provided a link to the presentation delivered at the event.

San Francisco, November 2006 Mary Meeker presented at the Web 2.0 conference taking place November 7-9 in San Francisco. Below, we have provided a link to the presentation delivered at the event. See less

See this at: treeshark.com| Added on 10/30/06

I'm here to undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it's not. In the outside world there are straight lines, so we put them that way into our pictures. We have developed... See more

I'm here to undermine your world view. We always assume that what we are taught about perspective is the way we actually see. But it's not. In the outside world there are straight lines, so we put them that way into our pictures. We have developed complicated schemes of geometrical rules to guide us. We take photos with cameras that have lenses that carefully distort the world to make it fit with the expectation that straight line should be straight. But visually they are not. Have you ever tried to draw that really large checker board floor? Somehow at the far right and left it goes all stretched. Do the same thing with circles on the floor and it gets really wild. Just look at those ellipses left and right they get really funky! Have you tried to stitch together that big panorama? They never quite fit do they. But if you take lots of pictures say every 5 degrees and just use the middle strip of each, it's sort of easier. And when they're all stuck together, well... those straight... See less

See this at: knowledge.wharton.up...| Added on 10/05/06

Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? Is the much smaller Facebook, run by a 22-year-old, really worth the $900... See more

Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? Is the much smaller Facebook, run by a 22-year-old, really worth the $900 million or more Yahoo is reported to have offered for it? Maybe. Or maybe this is Dot-Com Bubble, Part II, with MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and the other new Internet phenoms destined for oblivion when the fad fades. "What makes this hard is that these companies seem to be so many years away from the kind of earnings that the valuation numbers are forecasting for them," says Andrew Metrick, finance professor at Wharton. The $15 billion MySpace figure "would imply that a lot more people will be on MySpace than are currently on it." While the social networking sites vary considerably, each relies heavily on content provided by users who can post personal profiles and build networks among friends and others with shared interests. For the most... See less

See this at: laweekly.com| Added on 09/28/06

This is also a geopolitically divided beach, purposefully hidden, a DMZ in miniature where the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol would prefer no distractions as they monitor the fence of metal pylons that draws a 20-foot-tall line in the sand... See more

This is also a geopolitically divided beach, purposefully hidden, a DMZ in miniature where the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol would prefer no distractions as they monitor the fence of metal pylons that draws a 20-foot-tall line in the sand all the way into the sea. It is the perfect beach, in other words, for the world’s first game of international border volleyball. This is the idea, at least, as I trek to the beach with no name to meet Brent Hoff and three other collaborators who plan to stage the match. There, under the noon sun, are a lone umbrella, some towels, lots of water and a brand-new volleyball. Hoff is the editor of Wholphin, a new DVD magazine published by McSweeney’s. For the DVD’s menu, Hoff wants to film a game of beach volleyball using the border fence as the net. Through the pylons we can see hundreds of people — families, kids, ice-cream vendors and fishermen — all hanging out on Mexico’s side. The fence itself has kind of a beach vibe here: It’s broken in... See less

See this at: mirrors.ibiblio.org| Added on 09/28/06

boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with "digital... See more

boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with "digital publics" - connected social spaces such as MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube. Currently, boyd is a Graduate Fellow at the USC Anneberg Center, and social media researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Her recent work has explored diverse topics such as the creation of digital publics in Myspace.com (Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace), the design of culturally adaptive software (G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide), and the exploration of folksonomy (HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead). At Berkeley, boyd is advised by Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito. She holds an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied with Judith... See less

See this at: smithsonianmagazine....| Added on 09/25/06

Our reporter ventures deep into the rain forests of Indonesian New Guinea to meet some of the last people said to eat their fellow tribesmen.

Our reporter ventures deep into the rain forests of Indonesian New Guinea to meet some of the last people said to eat their fellow tribesmen. See less

See this at: gizmodo.com| Added on 09/25/06

Here's a remarkable video shot from the cockpit of a radio-controlled airplane. The camera's video is transmitted to the flyer on the ground below, who's wearing VR goggles. When he moves his head, the remote camera's pans and tilts correspond... See more

Here's a remarkable video shot from the cockpit of a radio-controlled airplane. The camera's video is transmitted to the flyer on the ground below, who's wearing VR goggles. When he moves his head, the remote camera's pans and tilts correspond exactly to his movements. The result is a extraordinary feeling of actually being in the plane. Shouldn't all R/C airplanes be made this way? – Charlie White A new way to control R/C planes! [Digg] read more: * airplanes * gadgets * r/c * r/c airplanes * virtual reality * vr goggles See less

See this at: originalsignal.com| Added on 09/11/06

We added some new signals to the site: Buzz, Jobs, Tech and Digg. That last one is an improved version of the content on our site DiggView.com (we closed the site).

We added some new signals to the site: Buzz, Jobs, Tech and Digg. That last one is an improved version of the content on our site DiggView.com (we closed the site). See less

See this at: cosmicvariance.com| Added on 08/21/06

The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe. We can tell a story that fits all the known data, in which ordinary matter (every particle ever detected in any experiment)... See more

The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe. We can tell a story that fits all the known data, in which ordinary matter (every particle ever detected in any experiment) constitutes only about 5% of the energy of the universe, with 25% being dark matter and 70% being dark energy. The challenge for early-twenty-first-century cosmology will actually be to understand the nature of these mysterious dark components. A beautiful new result illuminating (if you will) the dark matter in galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56 is an important step in this direction. (Here’s the press release, and an article in the Chandra Chronicles.) A prerequisite to understanding the dark sector is to make sure we are on the right track. Can we be sure that we haven’t been fooled into believing in dark matter and dark energy? After all, we only infer their existence from detecting their gravitational fields; stronger-than-expected gravity in... See less

See this at: technology.sympatico...| Added on 08/21/06

Unlike IBM's Deep Blue, a computer that was able to beat world-champion chess player Garry Kasparov in 1997, even the world's best poker-playing computers would flop against the top human players. That's because computer scientists have not yet... See more

Unlike IBM's Deep Blue, a computer that was able to beat world-champion chess player Garry Kasparov in 1997, even the world's best poker-playing computers would flop against the top human players. That's because computer scientists have not yet figured out how to write programs that can make informed decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate information, said Jonathan Schaeffer, chair of the University of Alberta's computer science department and Canada Research Chair in artificial intelligence. "The skills that make human poker players really good are skills that don't seem to match well with what computers can do," said Schaeffer. "Computers aren't particularly good at learning, for example, or reasoning by analogy." Schaeffer was part of the team that designed Hyperborean, a poker-playing computer that recently went undefeated at two tournaments hosted by the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. In the first tournament, four computers played 40,000 hands of limit Texas... See less

See this at: wsj2.com| Added on 08/09/06

It's interesting to watch the hype around Web 2.0 increasingly crystallize from a general perception of marketing mirage and investor snake oil to the many valuable concepts that are actually represented by the term. One of the best examples of this... See more

It's interesting to watch the hype around Web 2.0 increasingly crystallize from a general perception of marketing mirage and investor snake oil to the many valuable concepts that are actually represented by the term. One of the best examples of this is Jason Fried's fascinating new survey of 500 random Basecamp users, asking them what they think Web 2.0 is. A mere 13% had never heard of it and some of the answers are not only extremely good but the overall depth of knowledge is impressive. Perhaps it's just the quality of 37signals users, but I suspect 500 people represents a reasonably broad sample of online people. In fact, the survey itself is pretty much Web 2.0 collective intelligence in action, if fairly unstructured. See less

Highlights: This Web 2.0 blog has arranged for readers to obtain $50 off the standard conference rate.

See this at: boingboing.net| Added on 07/25/06

"Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?" 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked. "Absolutely," a federal air marshal replied. 7NEWS obtained an internal Homeland Security document defining... See more

"Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?" 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked. "Absolutely," a federal air marshal replied. 7NEWS obtained an internal Homeland Security document defining an SDR as a report designed to identify terrorist surveillance activity. "When you see a decision like this, for these reports, who loses here?" Kovaleski asked. "The people we're supposed to protect -- the American public," an air marshal said. What kind of impact would it have for a flying individual to be named in an SDR? "That could have serious impact ... They could be placed on a watch list. They could wind up on databases that identify them as potential terrorists or a threat to an aircraft. It could be very serious," said Don Strange, a former agent in charge of air marshals in Atlanta. He lost his job attempting to change policies inside the agency. See less

See this at: site-reference.com| Added on 07/24/06

Search engine optimization? Not a chance. We’re not even let into the kitchen to see what’s in the fridge, never mind given the recipe to cook a feast for our clients. It is a truly interesting and challenging aspect of Internet business development.... See more

Search engine optimization? Not a chance. We’re not even let into the kitchen to see what’s in the fridge, never mind given the recipe to cook a feast for our clients. It is a truly interesting and challenging aspect of Internet business development. It is tantamount to working in the dark or having business plans plucked from the pages of the grocery store rag. Heck, maybe Aliens can tell me the truth about the algorithms. Maybe even Macdonald’s ‘secret’ sauce while they’re at it. See less

See this at: games.slashdot.org| Added on 07/23/06

Ayaka Hahn writes to tell us that they have just released a free game construction kit designed to make Visual Novels easy to construct. The "Blade Engine" was based on a professional Visual Novel engine being used in Japan with the hopes that it... See more

Ayaka Hahn writes to tell us that they have just released a free game construction kit designed to make Visual Novels easy to construct. The "Blade Engine" was based on a professional Visual Novel engine being used in Japan with the hopes that it would spark greater interest in this medium in the west. From the press release: "In the West, there is a stereotype of: "Visual Novel = Dating Sim Game = Hentai", but that is wrong. Visual Novels CAN be Dating Sim games, Ren'ai games, Bishoujo games but also can be Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure and Horror Fiction games, or anything that the user's creativity comes up with." See less

See this at: worth1000.com| Added on 07/20/06

The rules of the game are thus: Create a failed ad campaign- a parody of an ad gone bad. As always, quality is a must. We will remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You will have 48 hours for this contest so make your submissions count.

The rules of the game are thus: Create a failed ad campaign- a parody of an ad gone bad. As always, quality is a must. We will remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You will have 48 hours for this contest so make your submissions count. See less

See this at: wired.com| Added on 07/13/06

Mike Duggan, a veterinary surgeon, holds his gloved hands over an 8-inch incision in the belly of pig 78-6, a 120-pound, pink Yorkshire. He’s waiting...

See this at: news.independent.co....| Added on 07/11/06

Syd Barrett, a founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd and the godfather of psychedelia, has died aged 60. Terry Kirby examines the legacy of a rock star who became a virtual recluse

Syd Barrett, a founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd and the godfather of psychedelia, has died aged 60. Terry Kirby examines the legacy of a rock star who became a virtual recluse See less

See this at: techcrunch.com| Added on 07/11/06

San Francisco based social network Bebo, which recently raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital, rejected a £300 million ($... See more

San Francisco based social network Bebo, which recently raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital, rejected a £300 million ($552 million) acquisition offer from British Telecom Group “a few weeks ago”, according to an insider on the transaction. Bebo’s asking price? North of $1 billion. A Benchmark representative wouldn’t comment on whether or not the rumor was accurate, but did stay on the phone with me long enough to say that “there has been a lot of interest from a lot of people around Bebo”. Bebo has been on fire recently, and now has more than 25 million registered users and 3 billion monthly page views. Myspace, for comparison, has 70+ million users and nearly 30 billion monthly page views. The success of Myspace (controlled by Fox Interactive Media) has led to a series of buyout offers on its competitors. Facebook was rumored to have turned down offers nearing $1 billion from Viacom and Yahoo. It looks like Kleiner’s recapitalization of troubled Friendster late last year for a... See less

Highlights: Facebook was rumored to have turned down offers nearing $1 billion from Viacom and Yahoo.

See this at: nytimes.com| Added on 07/05/06

By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well over $150,000 in cash and merchandise in his brief career. After a certain point, investigators stopped counting.

By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well over $150,000 in cash and merchandise in his brief career. After a certain point, investigators stopped counting. See less

Highlights: "Working like three hours today, three hours tomorrow — $20,000."

See this at: news.yahoo.com| Added on 07/05/06

Tue Jul 4, 12:33 PM ET ATHENS (AFP) - Cramped housing conditions and air pollution in Athens have given rise to a "super breed" of mosquito that is larger, faster and more adept at locating human prey, a Greek daily has reported.

Tue Jul 4, 12:33 PM ET ATHENS (AFP) - Cramped housing conditions and air pollution in Athens have given rise to a "super breed" of mosquito that is larger, faster and more adept at locating human prey, a Greek daily has reported. See less

See this at: connectbeam.com| Added on 06/29/06

The value of social bookmaking and collaboration is well understood in the consumer space. Social networks are becoming a fundamental platform for collaborating around daily activities. ConnectBeam brings the Web 2.0 social collaboration framework to... See more

The value of social bookmaking and collaboration is well understood in the consumer space. Social networks are becoming a fundamental platform for collaborating around daily activities. ConnectBeam brings the Web 2.0 social collaboration framework to the enterprise and also addresses the specific requirements inherent to a collaboration system in the enterprise. ConnectBeam application integrates features of social bookmarking, user generated content, and content tagging; user comments, group sharing, and proactive alerts and notifications tied together under a framework of enterprise level security, privacy; and user and administrator level control. See less

See this at: sciam.com| Added on 06/28/06

New York City is lousy with birds, and I mean that in a good way: I once counted 20 species in an hour in my backyard in the Bronx, with rufous-sided towhees and American redstarts making cameo appearances beside the usual mourning doves and... See more

New York City is lousy with birds, and I mean that in a good way: I once counted 20 species in an hour in my backyard in the Bronx, with rufous-sided towhees and American redstarts making cameo appearances beside the usual mourning doves and sparrows. The city is also clearly a human-dominated landscape. So the American Museum of Natural History was a good choice to host a late April conference called "Conserving Birds in Human-Dominated Landscapes." I went because in the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, I rooted for the crows. (I also sided with the giant insects in Starship Troopers. Although I did back the humans in the Matrix movies. Well, in the first one.) One of the speakers at the conference was Andrew Balmford of the University of Cambridge. In 2003 Balmford was named one of the "Scientific American 50," a celebration of research leaders "who have contributed to the advancement of technology in the realms of science, engineering, commerce and public policy." Balmford was... See less

See this at: willbe.planet-d.net| Added on 06/28/06

Demoscene is a world-wide collective of young artists and programmers who produce non-interactive audiovisual materials that are processed realtime on home computer systems. These productions can be considered as music videos or technologic... See more

Demoscene is a world-wide collective of young artists and programmers who produce non-interactive audiovisual materials that are processed realtime on home computer systems. These productions can be considered as music videos or technologic demonstrations (this is where the word "demo" comes from), and are the hard work of impassioned people since the 80's. Demomakers use to meet several times a year at demoparties, to attend various contests : graphics, music, coding competitions, and not least the intro and demo competitions where all the disciplines melt and produce impressive shows on the big screen. Go read the excellent Demoscene FAQ at ojuice.net. See less

See this at: blog.outer-court.com| Added on 06/21/06

David Jackson of SeekingAlpha reports that Google is inviting a selected group of AdSense webmasters to test out new “Cost-Per-Action” (CPA) ads. Quote SeekingAlpha’s reprint of Google’s mail:

David Jackson of SeekingAlpha reports that Google is inviting a selected group of AdSense webmasters to test out new “Cost-Per-Action” (CPA) ads. Quote SeekingAlpha’s reprint of Google’s mail: See less

See this at: markaboo.com| Added on 06/19/06

MarkaBoo makes it easy organize your data and share it with others. Bookmark websites, files and notes side-by-side from your browser, email, or mobile phone.

MarkaBoo makes it easy organize your data and share it with others. Bookmark websites, files and notes side-by-side from your browser, email, or mobile phone. See less