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Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration
Feb 7th
The way you work, the tools you use, and your approach to SEO has changed. Be open to changing the way you think about SEO and willing to change the way you view the search world. Take advantage of these opportunities, tools, and platforms.
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Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration – Search Engine Watch
Feb 7th
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Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration
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WunderMap Shows Weather From the Past & Future
Feb 6th
Weather Underground’s interactive WunderMap now enables users to go back and forth in time. WunderMap overlays a Google map with all kinds of weather information, including temperatures, radar, webcams, ski reports, dedicated services for fires, tornadoes, hurricanes and more.
The map now displays a clock icon that lets users scroll through the past and future to view historical and forecast data. Most data go back to around 2000. It can also display forecasts for several days ahead. It’s amazing to go back to historic storms and watch them happen all over again.
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Google has built casual weather tools for its own Maps service, and we worried about WunderMap when it launched. With so many people already using Google Maps, the ability to check the weather there makes it all the more convenient at WunderMap’s expense.
Even Google Earth has weather, displaying real-time animations of clouds, rain and snow. But Weather Underground offers so much more information. Even for casual weather-watchers, there’s much to learn here.
The layers that include time control features are radar, weather stations, photos, tornadoes, webcams, fire and storm reports. Satellite images can project forecasts but not past data. Check it out at wunderground.com/wundermap.
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OK Go & Chevy Bring The Future Of Video Marketing To 2012 – ReelSEO Online Video News
Feb 6th
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OK Go & Chevy Bring The Future Of Video Marketing To 2012
ReelSEO Online Video News He is also founder of The Viral Orchard (http://www.viralorchard.com), an Internet marketing firm offering content writing and development services, viral marketing consulting, and SEO services. Jeremy writes constantly, loves online video, … |
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Goldilocks, A Dwarf and NASA’s Short Term Future
Feb 3rd
Space sucks. Literally. The void of space is one perpetual vacuum that would suck the brain out of any exposed human through their ears. In space there is also unfiltered radiation, extreme temperatures and a multitude of other ways that humans can be harmed outside of low-Earth orbit. Learning how to mitigate radiation and improve space crews’ health are two of 16 recommendations made by the National Research Council to NASA for the agency’s technological focus in the next five years.
Researchers announced yesterday that they have discovered a new potential “Goldilocks” planet in a different solar system. A “Goldilocks” planet is one found within the habitable zone in orbit around a star – not too hot, not to cold – that could potentially support life. In hundreds of years, after humanity has exhausted all of Earth’s natural resources, we may need to migrate to one of these planets. So, NASA should hurry up and get cracking on the NRC’s recommendations. Best to be prepared in the face of an uncertain future.
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The NRC’s recommendations come in three objectives. See the chart below.
The study was sponsored by NASA. It states, ” NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) should establish a rigorous process to select among competing technologies at appropriate milestones in order to ensure that the most promising ones receive sufficient attention and resources.”
The study focuses on the near term goals for NASA’s space flight program and recommends that the foundation for the goals be implemented in the next five years. NASA works on 20-30 year windows of technological innovation. Within that window, it is hoped, that humans will return to the Moon and maybe make a venture towards Earth’s irascible sister planet, Mars. Near and long terms goals in our solar system are to identify alien sources of water and determine if life ever existed outside of our little blue orb.
Goldilocks and A Dwarf
The most recent Goldilocks planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, is found in the constellation Scorpio, 22 light years away from Earth. It orbits a dwarf star in a system with two other dwarf stars. It has a 28-day solar cycle, meaning its “years” are very quick. The planet is much closer to its star than Earth but researchers believe it receives as much energy from its star because of the weakness of the dwarf.
This is the fourth Goldilocks planet found as scientists become more proficient at finding smaller objects orbiting distant stars. Researchers did not expect to find a planet around the star because the system does not have a lot of metal-based material such as iron in comparison with our own solar system. Yet, the discovery shows that Earth-like planets can exist in a variety of conditions in the universe, greatly increasing the likelihood that another planet much like our own exists somewhere.
“This was expected to be a rather unlikely star to host planets. Yet there they are, around a very nearby, metal-poor example of the most common type of star in our galaxy,” said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz, in a release. “The detection of this planet, this nearby and this soon, implies that our galaxy must be teeming with billions of potentially habitable rocky planets.”
Now that humanity is getting better at identifying extra-solar planets, NASA and the international space community needs to take the steps we will need to eventually reach out to them. The first steps to inter-galactic dominance start with the decisions makers in Washington, D.C.
Top image: UC Santa Cruz
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What Does Siri’s Future Look Like?
Jan 31st
It’s only been three months since Apple unveiled Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant built into the iPhone 4S. Although the product is technically in beta, it has already spawned imitations and Web video parodies. What is perhaps most exciting about Siri is not what it does now, but in its potential future uses.
The latest clues about that future come from a newly-published patent, which hints at some of the things Siri may be able to do after its first iteration.
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The patent focuses primarily on the “hands-free context” in which users could employ voice control. Whether in a moving vehicle, at home or in a professional setting, there are a number of scenarios in which users could benefit from controlling their devices using only their voices. This is especially true while one is driving, when voice could be used to send and receive messages or to query for navigational directions. Scenarios like that, or at least early versions of them, are already familiar to iPhone 4S owners, but are bound to get more functional and complex moving forward.
One thing Apple apparently plans to have its devices do is automatically detect those hands-free scenarios and adjust the UI accordingly. That is, when you mount your phone in the car, the device realizes it’s time to substitute certain core elements of its GUI with voice and audio-based controls.
The wording of the patent itself is not exclusive to smartphones. Indeed, it lists personal computers, tablets, televisions and gaming systems as devices with which this technology could potentially be used. There should be little doubt that the company plans on expanding Siri beyond the iPhone and building it into other hardware, quite possibly including the forthcoming new iPad and Apple’s much-anticipated HDTV set.
The Role of Siri-Hacking
Some of the more exciting clues about Siri’s future potential come not from patents but from the community of developers who have already started tinkering with what Apple released and putting it to new uses. Early examples built using the SiriProxy hack include remotely adjusting the thermostat and starting one’s car, as well as calling up television shows on a Web-connected set top box.
While Apple officially frowns upon such tinkering, it has a tendency to borrow heavily from the iOS jailbreaking community when developing its own products. It’s even hired a few notable iOS developers with roots in the jailbreaking community. Each new version of iOS pulls in a feature or two previously only available on jailbroken devices. The recently overhauled Notification Center is just one substantial example.
When users started hacking the Kinect, Microsoft famously endorsed the practice, going so far as to offer cash for the best hacks. If Apple embraces Siri-hacking, it will likely be in more subtle ways, probably by quietly rolling a few of the best hacks into its own official offering. The line will always be drawn at features that go too strongly against carrier wishes, present user experience challenges or otherwise don’t meet Apple’s strict requirements.
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[Poll] Does An Open Source webOS Have A Legitimate Future?
Jan 27th
This week, Hewlett-Packard announced the open source roadmap for webOS along with the next edition of its application framework, Enyo 2.0. As we wrote yesterday, the time for webOS to shine may lie ahead. What it comes down to is how well the open source community responds to webOS and whether or not the original equipment manufacturers will ever decide to build webOS devices.
The favorable response of the community and OEMs is not guaranteed. Many think webOS is as dead an operating system as Aramaic is a language. That may include former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein who is leaving HP after his commitment to the company elapsed. Is there still potential for webOS and Enyo or have we seen the last of the once-promising mobile operating system? That is the topic of this week’s ReadWriteMobile poll.
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There may or may not be a future for webOS. The timeline stretches to September this year and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 open source license. HP has said that developers are free to suggest new aspects of the project and bounce them off the experts in the in the Enyo Forum. The company believes it is more likely that proposals concerning the outer branches of webOS will be undertaken than anything touching the core of the source code and kernel.
The biggest gain that open sourcing webOS may garner could have less to do with webOS itself than with Enyo. The application framework is fundamentally Web-based. In mobile terms that means it will rely heavily on HTML5 and CSS and work through WebKit and Direct Canvas. While there are other HTML5 frameworks developers can use to create mobile Web apps, such as those provided by appMobi and Sencha Touch, one of the biggest desires of mobile HTML5 developers has been a consistent, easy-to-use framework. Enyo might be the option that developers have been looking for.
For the OEMs, there may be an advantage in contributing to the webOS open source project. These are turbulent days for many OEMs. HTC was one of the companies that helped make Android popular, but it has seen its growth stall with the dominance of Samsung in the ecosystem. Motorola, which reported a loss for the 2011, is stuck to Android through its potential acquisition by Google. Samsung has shown a willingness to adopt any mobile platform that it thinks it can create future growth. Secondary OEMs such as LG and Huawei could hedge bets against a reliance on Android with webOS.
Will anybody adopt it? Or are the dissembled parts of webOS, like the standard Linux kernel or the application ecosystem that could be created through Enyo, more valuable? Take the poll below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Future Of the Smart Home? Engineer Hacks Android With the Kinect API
Jan 25th
Take two open source projects, do a little creative hacking and ingenuity and what do you get? The Android-Kinect project. An engineer that goes by the name DDRBoxman hacked a Galaxy Nexus smartphone with his a projector, a PC and Microsoft’s Kinect API and was able to use “touch” based gestures to control the user interface by interacting with the projection. Everybody has been waiting for The user experience brought to us by the film Minority Report. Well, this engineer might have brought us closer than any other hack before.
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DDRBoxman works through something called Recursive Penguin, which from its website we cannot tell is a personal project or some type of company. The Facebook link on Recursive Penguin leads to an Android developer by the name of Colin Edwards that works for a mobile development studio called Ironclad Mobile (which is now called Uncodin), based in Austin, Texas. Uncodin has funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a an app to boost math test scores for 9th graders and has some funding from DARPA for a mobile training application, according to the Facebook page.
DDRBoxman downloaded the Android 4.0 ICS source tree from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and created a custom ROM for his Galaxy Nexus. He then sends command to the Nexus with TUIOForAndroid. TUIO is, “an open framework that defines a common protocol and API for tangible multitouch surfaces” according to TUIO.org. The PC is then configured with the touch interface through the open source Kinect API and voila! We have a tangible user interface on the wall.
The Kinect API is fascinating. Some of the greatest innovations of using motion-based input methods are being cooked up at the MIT Media Lab where they use Kinects and its API as a cheap implementation of motion computing. That includes 3D interfaces, motion tracking and an array of other innovations.
Now, think of the potential with mixing Kinect with Android. One of the untapped potentials of Android is that it is not just a mobile platform. Android could run on set-top televisions boxes or control all of the electronics in your household. The concept of the “smart home” takes a step forward in the marriage between the two open source projects. It is all the more delicious that the sources come from two companies that have historically been at each other’s throats: Google and Microsoft.
Google announced a framework at I/O last year that can bring Android to all of your appliances or devices. Called Android@Home it was the first notion that Google has projected that Android could be have far more uses and be more ubiquitous than most people originally believed. Now, add the Kinect API to Android@Home and you could walk into your kitchen, wave to turn on the lights, program your microwave from across the room with just a few waves of you hand. Then, go into your living room where you have an Android smartphone hooked to a projector running the Netflix app and stand in the middle of the room, swiping the air until you find your viewing material for the evening.
This all sounds like some crazy science fiction movie a la Minority Report. It is not. The fact of the matter is that right now, this technology exists. The hack by DDRBoxman is just the beginning. Within the decade, we will see this type of functionality in homes across the world.
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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Future Edition – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 22nd
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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Future Edition
ReelSEO Online Video News He is also founder of The Viral Orchard (http://www.viralorchard.com), an Internet marketing firm offering content writing and development services, viral marketing consulting, and SEO services. Jeremy writes constantly, loves online video, … |
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The Future Of Social TV Is Now
Jan 13th
Social “check-in” service GetGlue waited until nearly halfway through January to release its 2011 infographics. That same day, it closed a $12M round of financing led by Rho Ventures, with participation from TimeWarner Investments, RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures. At the end of 2011, GetGlue hit two million users and logged 100 million check-ins. The site is only two years old, yet it has grown 1000% year over year. The million user mark came in April 2011. From just January to September 2011,it saw an 800% increase.
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GetGlue is a service that lets users “check-in” to watching TV shows, reading books and listening to music. In 2011, it added a visual stream, real-time convos and personalized guides to shows, movies and artists. The conversation tab brings up chats that users are having in real-time about the same show, movie or artist. It’s a natural opportunity for the “water cooler”-type conversation.
GetGlue users openly share their feelings about entertainment, especially when it comes to popular shows and movies. Social TV is centered around emotional experiences, and GetGlue users love to talk about feelings.
At this year’s CES, we looked at how web connectivity, time-shifting content and “second screens” will affect social TV. Of the 10 social apps that Facebook announced, seven of those were mostly focused on social TV. Beyond Vegas, Boxee announced a new partnership with Facebook for sharing shows and videos. But before all that, there was GetGlue.
Perhaps the future of social TV is already here.
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