Monthly Archives: July 2009

Emotional Local News in LA

July 30, 2009 – 3:22 AM

NBC Los Angeles has implemented some interesting new features on their website. At root NBC is bringing local readers into the process of parsing the local news. This is a nod to the increasing power of the news consumer due to online tools and social networks, and the resultant shift in the balance of power [...]

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Virtual Graffiti Walls

July 20, 2009 – 10:01 PM

Early last year, I posted here about Graffiti Research Lab and their work in creating a methodology for virtually tagging buildings using a green laser, a powerful projector, and some really cool software that they developed and then released as open source. That methodology is equally applicable to smaller scale rear projection systems that can be [...]

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Demand Evolution Inexpensive Touch Kit

July 10, 2009 – 7:47 AM

Back in March, we did a fairly extensive roundup of multitouch display technologies. While it was by no means exhaustive, we tried to cover most of the relevant and viable commercial options for someone wanting to create a multitouch system. But of course it’s a space that’s evolving quickly.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote [...]

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Boone Oakley all-video website

July 2, 2009 – 7:57 PM

Last summer I wrote here about the then-fairly-new feature of video annotations on YouTube. At the time, the Samsung “follow your instinct” campaign I talked about was the best example of what could be done with it, but that bar has been decidedly raised. June’s SOTM on theFWA is great little web site implemented completely [...]

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