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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Anca Alimanescu — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:37:43 +0000

Looks like the facination for Web 2.0 is an anthropological revolution for the human kind.
I’m curious to see what the Web 3.0(besides his marketing purpose) will bring us.
In the meantime, I think one of the first steps has been made by the search engines like Wolfram Alpha.

Apple’s new magic mouse

Anca Alimanescu — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:51 +0000

Nokia N95 Accelerometer

Anca Alimanescu — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:06:00 +0000

The N95, Nokia’s Smartphone, includes a built-in accelerometer. This was originally only used for video stabilization and photo orientation (to keep landscape or portrait shots oriented as taken).

Nokia Research Center has recently allowed an application interface directly to the accelerometer, allowing software to use the data from it. Nokia has released an application to demonstrate this.
Third-party programs have already begun to appear, including RotateMe, which will automatically change the screen orientation when the phone is tilted and Lightsaber, which causes the phone to make the sounds of the Star Wars Lightsaber when waved through the air.Another third-party program which has also used the built-in accelerometer is Glogger VS2 , a camera application which can automatically detect camera shake and reduce the possibility of taking a blurry image.

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Motorola introduces mobile video player

Anca Alimanescu — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:49:00 +0000

Motorola, the world’s third-biggest cell phone maker, on Thursday introduced a mobile media player that shows live television, on-demand video clips, and programming saved on digital video recorders.