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Press Clippings

The initial listing of new clippings was culled from a variety of sources, including the NY Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, etc.

We'd love to see your clippings here as well! Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes), or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.

[edit] Recommended Reading or Commented Upon

  • Adding emotions to online video
    http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/07/adding-emotions-to-online-video.html
    A team of researchers led by Ling Chen of Zhejiang University in China is working on a new media player – called Emoplayer - that highlights the emotional state of the characters on the video timeline
    • work on online emotions is interesting. Anything that can take into account the affective dimension of users will impact in new and future technologies. The use of tags may be one way [EDL]
    • A by-product of these statistics is the need for better, faster more accessible infrastructure [JamieM]
    • Evidence of where things are, and likely to escalate [JL]
    • Would like to see how it evolves for mobile applications [EDL]
    • 2007 seems to have been the year of online video [NN]
  • Holographic Video for Your Home
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18868/
    A compact optical setup that produces 3-D video could make holography much less expensive.
    • I think this could be a huge breakthrough to really engage in 3D virtual worlds. [DougM]
    • This would be an interesting way to get teachers into the home for distance education. [JamieM]
    • Definitely interesting [EDL)
    • when holographic comes to mobile, things will become really interesting. [NN]
  • Facebook Apps
    http://developers.facebook.com/
    You can run, you can hide, but more and more content and tools are getting integrated with facebook/
    • Facebook vying to become a platform? [AL]
    • I think what is interesting here, is more how this year has seen the breaking away from apps on the PC to app integration and convergence with the web as platform and browser as OS [NN]
  • iPhone vs Mobile Web
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iphone_vs_mobile_web.php
    Recently a Forrester report was released stating that the iPhone "signals the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today".
    • no more creating content formatted for limited phone screens; this is the same web in a portable device[AL]
    • also this interface has been taken up by other mobile phone producers (particularly as iPhone does not have much reach right now) [NN]
  • Mogulus
    http://www.mogulus.com/
    everything you need to launch your own live 24/7 tv station.... over the web
    • Technology that could bring content creation and broadcast to the masses with greater ease. Would be a great way to get kids into film and television on the cheap. [JamieM]
    • very interesting [EDL]
  • Motion-Sensing Comes to Mobile Phones
    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6169697.html
    The same technology used in Nintendo's popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you're Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets.
    • tactile input devices going form entertainment to other venues [AL]
    • the wii in your pocket might be able to add significantly to kinesthetic skills learning, you can see how this could tie in as a biofeedback mechanism [NN]
    • This is becoming an exploratory means for mixed mode ARGs (alternate reality games) - LAMP (Laboratory of Advanced Media Storytelling) in Sydney beginning to look at this [AT]
  • Smartphones are the PCs of the developing world
    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19526156.300
    Smartphones may seem like a frivolous indulgence for rich westerners, but it turns out that their added features can be harnessed to help people in poorer countries do business, educate their children, etc. [AL]
    • the developing world is certainly mobile, evolving toward mobility is necessary [EDL]
    • learning going mobile is starting to become more mainstream, but the lack of standards seem to hold things back and perhaps technology churn in this area too [NN]
  • Talk to the Phone
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19170/
    Speech-recognition software from the start-up Vlingo could make the mobile Web easier to use.
    • interesting line of work, speech technologies should definitely evolve [EDL]
    • interesting but speech recognition, in terms of natural language parsing, still seems a ways off though [NN]
  • 3-D Web Surfing from SpaceTime
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18817/
    A new, downloadable browser attempts to go beyond two-dimensional tabbed browsing by leveraging the graphics power in modern PCs.
    • interesting when applied to other than modern PCs (like kiosks or others) [EDL]
  • 3 Out of 4 U.S. Internet Users Streamed Video Online in May
    http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1529
    Video Metrix report for May 2007, revealing that minutes of online video per user during the month. Google Sites topped the monthly rankings with both the most unique video streamers and most videos streamed.
    • a sign of impact of video via the web [AL]
  • Computer Speakers for Your Ears Only
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/18413/
    Microsoft researchers are developing an algorithm that would allow speakers to work like virtual headphones--even as you walk around your office.
    • I wonder if the last few items above, are all leading to something like a CAVE that can be carried around in our pocket [NN]
  • Mobile Web Searches Using Pictures
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18368/
    A new Microsoft application lets people search the Internet on their cell phones using a camera instead of a keypad.
    • very interesting and useful [EDL]
    • the more intuitive the interface the easier it is for those resistant teachers [AT]
  • Recreating the Feel of Water
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18758/
    A new approach to fluid dynamics creates virtual water that acts like the real thing.
    • interesting, definitely a need for technologies to be more sensorial[EDL]
  • Quintura
    http://www.quintura.com/
    Neural-net type search engine. Visual searching and tools are becoming widely used as interactive projection technologies are integrated into lectures.
    • [VAD]

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  • First Book written as wiki
    http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/we-are-smarter-than-me/
    initiated by research done at Wharton and MIT, “We Are Smarter than Me” is taking the crowd-wisdom approach to not only discuss how collaboration can be used for a single goal, but to prove in what manner this can be achieved.
  • Fluid Project
    http://fluidproject.org/
    a worldwide collaborative project to help improve the usability and accessibility of community open source projects with a focus on academic software for universities.
  • Grub's Distributed Web Crawling Project
    http://grub.org/
    Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. In a way, we were a bit ahead of our time, but our intention then was what it is now. We want to help fix search.
  • iPhone & Learning: Early Report
    http://www.learning2007.com/iphone1
    In the midst of the frenzy about the new iPhone from Apple, we took one into the MASIE Center Learning Lab to examine the role that it might plan in the delivery of Mobile Learning.
    • enhances the importance of mobile devices in developing countries, heavy users of mobiles [EDL]
  • Lifestream
    http://lifestreamblog.com/
    A Lifestream is a chronological aggregated view of your life activities both online and offline. It is only limited by the content and sources that you use to define it.
  • Most Hyped 2007: Facebook vs iPhone vs Twitter vs Pownce
    http://mashable.com/2007/07/19/facebook-iphone-twitter-pownce-hype/
    We've taken a look at four of the most (over)hyped tech stories so far in 2007 – Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, and the iPhone – and used a wide variety of publicly available data tools to see who is garnering the most hype.
  • SENSEable City
    http://senseable.mit.edu/
    The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.
  • Social Networking Goes Global
    http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1555
    comScore released the results of a study on the expansion of social networking across the globe, revealing that several major social networking sites have experienced dramatic growth during the past year.
  • The Future of Web Video: Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers
    http://www.lulu.com/content/515395
    (Book)details twelve tectonic shifts reshaping the entertainment landscape. It includes interviews with senior execs from Brightcove, Metacafe, TiVo, Verizon, and Ogilvy & Mather, as well as Web video pioneers like Judson Laipply ("Evolution of Dance"), Fritz Grobe ("Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos"), and Gregg Spiridellis (“This Land”).
  • Visuwords
    http://www.visuwords.com/
    Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
  • Web 3.0 (Technology Review)
    http://www.technologyreview.com/special/web3/
    New technologies are changing the infrastructure of the Web, turning fragmented data sources into searchable wholes. Computers will gain the intelligence to understand, organize, and draw conclusions from online data.
  • wikirage
    http://www.wikirage.com/
    This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time. Popular people in the news, the latest fads, and the hottest video games can be quickly identified by monitoring this social phenomenon.


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