Looks like Google Earth also has World Cup Fever. It’s integrated an awesome 3D look at every single World Cup Stadium in South Africa into its mapping system. Brilliant mix of Football Fanatic and Tech Junkie. I like it.
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Personal Branding and Enhancing Employee Relations with Social Media
I gave a presentation yesterday at the “Social Media and the Employment Relationship Conference” in Holborn, London. Essentially, I was talking to a group of HR consultants and professionals and letting them know how to get involved and get started using Social Media in their particular context.
Here it is :)
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Google’s Nexus One vs. iPhone, Droid and Palm Pre
The below info is American-focused but you can get an idea of the benefits and pitfalls of each phone. Also, as I have always maintained, go for the phone which would suit your particular needs. Not everyone needs an iPhone despite it’s Cool status, which seems to be slowly dying out now. If you’re a business person, get a Blackberry. If you’re an all media, social, business, game and traveller junkie… stick with the iPhone… It’s all about utility, yo.
All info was thanks to Billshrink
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Ants go High-Tech
National Geographic has this interesting news piece from Bristol, United Kingdom.
— Image courtesy University of Bristol/PA via APThe study was to find how ants choose nesting sites.
A study based on the experiments, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, showed that rock ants will go far out of their way to move to a better home–chosen based on the personal preferences of a few trusted scouts.
Technorati Tags: Science, Ants, technology, national geographic, experiment
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Cool Geek Gift: PhotoSafe II
This is really cool (someone buy it for me!). I’ve had this happen a couple of times, where you’re busy snapping away with your camera and suddenly you realise… no space.
The Photo Safe II is essentially a storage backup, about the size of an MP3 player, that dumps photos from your camera’s memory card into its hard drive. All you do is remove your memory card from your camera, insert it into the Photo Safe II, press the one-touch Auto Copy button, and bingo, you now have a backup of your photos and free space on your memory card. Now go back out there and snap away!
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How cool is this? Anime USB Drives!
Antilogic covered these cool new gadgets which should be released end November, early December. Anime USB Drives! The first two which are launched are Lupin the Third and Gundam.
Obviously they’ll come with a premium, but how cool are these. I’m sure all teh g33k Anime Culture Junkies are gonna go wild for these. They hold up to 4GB of storage which is decent for a USB flash drive.
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Radiohead’s “House of Cards” First Ever to be Premiered by Google
Check out the first-ever music video to debut courtesy of Google and also the first to be shot without cameras. Only lasers and scanners were used in the production and, which is why Thom Yorke looks kind of like a sonogram.So… “interact” with the video on Google. There’s also a making-of video that talks about Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR, the technology used to capture all the imagery in 3D.
The video is directed by James Frost of Zoo Films.
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About Time, A Phone Charger Powered by Movement.
We’ve all seen the citizen watches and others which are powered by movement and sunlight, etc. Orange, the mobile carrier, have developed a phone charger powered by “dance energy”.Adrants points out that they got help from with development of the charger from GotWind, whose unfortunate name refers to renewable energy research, not the thing that happens when you pull Uncle’s finger. The charger works with a system of weights and magnets which creates an electrical current every time you move.
From the Press Release…
“The Orange Dance Charge is the result of months of research into alternate, sustainable energy sources to power mobile phones during summer music festivals…”
The Charger was tested at the Glastonbury Festival.
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Winners of the South African Twitter Story Competition!
Mandy de Waal, one of our esteemed judges has recently coined the phrase “twiction” to represent micro-stories, especially those created within 140 characters on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter. I found it extremely appropriate to put this new term into use for this competition.
What a ride! The South African “Twiction” competition has now come to a head with the winners in sight and the prizes ready to be sent off. Thanks once again to all the contestants, the beautiful and intelligent Judges and, of course, the sponsors!
Okay… Let’s get to it.
First Prize: @JasonEsch
“He was both at a loss and lost, staring at the road sign that seemed more to describe how he was feeling than where he was going: Bakgatla.”
Judges comments:
“A journey at a crossroads, with a real sense of character. The ending wins it for me.”“Beautiful use of metaphor for such a short form, and strong expression on the archetypal journey and ability of humans to get lost on that journey.”
@JasonEsch wins a T-shirt from SpringLeap.com! Congratulations!
Second Prize: @yusufk
“Vuvuzela in one hand,phone in the other,he watched the cross float by 3 defendenders,deflect off a forehead into the net. Tweet:”SA Scores!”
Judges Comments:
“Sports offers up great narrative. The themes of struggle, perseverance and victory are timeless. The ‘tweet’ added a nice touch.”
“Another strongly descriptive entry, which conjures images of our strong sporting nation.”
“I am so excited about World Cup coming to SA, and I think it will be great for the country spirit. And every goal will help. So this captures that hope beautifully!”Yusuf’s entry was a close contender for no. 1
@yusufk wins a $20 Amazon.com voucher from the guys at Qatarliving.com! Well Done!
Third Prize: @samanthaperry
“A writer entered a story competition, lost, and killed herself. The judges denied guilt, claiming the writer had terminal Bulwer-Lyttonitis”
Judges comments:
“ For the benefit of those who don’t know the reference – click over to http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Clever entry; complete and concise.”
“Smart. Funny. Self evasive. Another complete story in 140 characters.”Samantha’s entry was very close to snatching second place. She wins 40 Minutes Free wi-fi access which she can use anywhere in South Africa. Great Work Samantha!
Runners Up:These were entries which were contending with the three winners and made some great efforts which put them onto the list…
@takilla786: Innocent window washes, innocent sells, innocent begs, innocent smells.Innocent pleas, innocent harps,all so that Innocent Jnr never starves
@blacktiemedia: Thembi stood contrasted against the sky of hungry fire. Smoke filled her lungs, blood stained her clothes. “Ubuntu” she whispered tearfully.
@nicharry: We’ve lost our ubuntu. 14 years gone and we are too scared to stand for our countrymen. Instead we fall for anyone carrying a knife or a gun.
@Sznq: He said: 1.Like it or 2.Hamba Kahle.When he wasn’t looking,she left.Now why can’t he buy her back ? Such bitter sweet things,ultimatums.
@qudsiya: One day she clicked on his nick and typed “hi”. A year later, she shook his hand and said, “Nice to meet you.” On 19/01/07 she said, “I do.”
@ismaild: its dark and she misses him, hears a sound in the kitchen! “WTF? Should she check? slowly tiptoes, damn those skelm tokoloshe with munchies
@shaunoakes: ! I said “Fok, Chyna” said a frustrated God, after another misunderstanding with an apologetic Mother Nature. “Now look what you’ve done!”The competition overall showed the great variety of experience and expression in our great nation. Different stories, varied perspectives, emotion and intellectualism all in 140 characters. A tremendous example of creativity :) I was humbled at the outstanding creativity in each entry and I know for a fact that it made the judges’ jobs all the more harder to choose the overall winners.
Last Word from the Judges:
Saaleha Bamjee-Mayet – “Such stellar entries made the judging process really difficult. To facilitate the process, I tried to look for the most complete story in a twitter format, ones that gave a sense of a beginning, middle and end. SA twitterers have a wicked way with words, and I hated to let some really poetic entries go.”Mandy de Waal – “For me the biggest skill in the short form is not only the concise concept and the writing, but the re-writing. The ability to shave off everything that’s not necessary, leaving only the bare bones of the story. Short form is essentially fiction that tells a story in anything from five thousand words to a couple of paragraphs. Imagine then how ruthless one must be with Twiction, which surely must be the shortest form of fiction ever written.”
Eve Dmochowska – “Overall, I think that the entries were fabulous, creative, inspired and mostly a whole lot of fun. And It was wonderful to see so many entries .. it shows that the twitter community is quite a cohesive one in this country. Well done to all the entrants!”Winners, please contact me to collect your prizes :)
Till the next competition, Keep Tweeting!
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Online Bookstore Voyeurism – Book Rabbit
What a cool Idea. BookRabbit.com< allows users to upload a picture of their bookshelves so that everybody else can see them in an effort to encourage interaction, comparisons and more shopping!BookRabbit, which just went through its public launch in May, aims to be an online bookshop that “dynamically connects readers, authors and publishers through the books they own.” It also claims to be cheaper than Amazon on the top 100,000 titles, and offers free delivery within the UK. More interesting, though, are the ways users of the site can share their passion for books, including creating their own personal bookcases and catalogues online and making recommendations to other readers. Each user is invited to upload a photo of his or her bookshelf—along with a user profile—and to tag the individual titles therein. Other users can then view all the bookshelves on the site, compare with their own and make connections with other readers based on the titles they have in common. More than 900 bookshelves have been uploaded so far, and they’re viewable by “latest,” “most connections” or “most discussed.” The winner for most connections so far, for example, is a user named Glynis, who has more than 100 books in common with other readers.
Of course, in the process of viewing and comparing bookshelves, BookRabbit no doubt hopes users might get inspired to buy some new titles and expand their own collections. The site includes an affiliate programme that lets users put links on their sites or e-mails to show off their bookcases and earn a fee if anyone buys anything through them. Link
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