1 days ago
Linkorama : The Inbox, Part Two: Facebook Has An Ambient Awareness Problem - In short, Facebook is not a network driven by ambient awareness, it's more batch mode driven. And I have come to this startingly obvious conclusion: Social networks driven by ambient awareness will win. And, by the way, so will search solutions that
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3 month ago
deusx : Ambient News at Toolness - "a Firefox Extension called “Ambient News”, and its goal is to provide the user with zero-cost news about the sites that they visit frequently. The extension requires no configuration; you just install it and see if it helps you out."
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4 month ago
philgyford : Stone Cold Pimpin': NASA's Forgotten Ambient Albums - "Space music" from 1992: "raw, uncatalogued space sounds data ... we selected random information from the raw data and processed it to produce 'Symphonies of the Planets'". Ambient "music".
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Linkorama : Great To See You. Just Not Around Here - If I’m frank, one of the enjoyable aspects of that small bar around the corner is that I’m not going to bump into you.
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14 month ago
philgyford : Fauni Gena - While looking for MP3blogs on electronic music (any suggestions?) I came across this one on ambient music.
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17 month ago
deusx : Joi Ito's Web: Wow talk transcription - "I have TeamSpeak on my speakers at my house, so even when I’m not in the game I can hear people talking. ... It’s this ambient sound so I know how the guild is doing"
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19 month ago
factoryjoe : Web-Based Time Management for Geeks - RescueTime.com - RescueTime is a web-based time management tool (currently in private alpha). We offer: * The ability to see exactly how you spend your time. No data entry, no effort-- Your time gets tracked down to the second without you having to
Rod Begbie : RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software - Another example of the "ambient" data-gathering I'm becoming so fond of. Tracks what applications you use, and what websites you visit, and run comparisons to work out where you're spending your time. [via] #
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21 month ago
philgyford : Disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy - Excellent stuff on following friends in Twitter, Flickr, etc. I must try and remember some of this for all those times I try and explain my online life to non-geek friends who look at me like I'm some weird stalking nerd. (via Yoz)
Rod Begbie : Ambient Intimacy - A good explanation of what's so lovely about Twitter, in a way I can explain to folks without sounding crazy. [via] #
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24 month ago
Rod Begbie : The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag - I've decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month. #
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Rod Begbie : The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag - I've decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month. #
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29 month ago
plasticbag : PhotoVu seem to have some decently sized and not-entirely-revolting LCD wifi-enabled photoframes - I'm not sure I'm up for coughing up $700 for one, but there's a bunch of stuff I'd like to do with em. Really interesting.
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Peter Morville: the Tagsonomy interview - Last week I got the chance to talk to Peter Morville about his recent article Authority, his excellent new book Ambient Findability, and the future when everything will be taggable.
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38 month ago
kellan : Ambient Findability, First Edition - Anyone read this? Intriguing but perhaps .... fluffy? #
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41 month ago
plasticbag : A place where it rains, but not on you - "A circular room made of iron clad in green leaves. It is raining inside the room, excpet where you're standing. No matter where you go in the rain, it will stop falling right above your head"
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41 month ago
plasticbag : The "Light Play" Sunlight Table traps light in fibre-optic threads and uses it to create pinpricks of light in a table top... - "By doing so, it encourages a dialogue between work and nature and re-establishes a connection with the outside world"
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43 month ago
cobra libre : ambient widgets - he's already written a widget that piles your dashboard with crap as your trash fills up #
plasticbag : Andrew Otwell's thoughts on Dashboard mirror a lot of the things that I've been thinking about (and talking about to Adam Greenfield) - It's a perfect environment for prototyping ambient informational devices around the home - like the orb that we were playing with a while back...
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Making the world calmer through ambient technology - A slightly banal overview of some of the work on ambient technology that's been going on...
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plasticbag : Buddy Bugs - Buddy Bugs is an ambient peripheral physical interface that represents Windows® Instant Messenger contact list, where people are represented by glass bugs on a leaf.
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plasticbag : Matt Jones proses "Smart Muzak" - Lovely ideas here - use 'on hold' music to convey through mood and pace and rhythm your place in the queue and how long it'll be before your call is answered...
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