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St. Louis SEO Firm Leap Clixx Expands Executive Team – The Edwardsville Intelligencer
Mar 29th
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St. Louis SEO Firm Leap Clixx Expands Executive Team
The Edwardsville Intelligencer Leap Clixx, a leading St. Louis SEO, Internet marketing and social media marketing firm, has welcomed two new experts to its executive team: Tom Greulich as Vice President of Sales and Head of Accounts, and James McMinn Jr. as Marketing Manager. |
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St. Louis SEO Firm Leap Clixx Expands Executive Team – PR Web (press release)
Mar 29th
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St. Louis SEO Firm Leap Clixx Expands Executive Team
PR Web (press release) Leap Clixx, a leading St. Louis SEO, Internet marketing and social media marketing firm, has welcomed two new experts to its executive team: Tom Greulich as Vice President of Sales and Head of Accounts, and James McMinn Jr. as Marketing Manager. |
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Self-Taught Seo Pro Wows Internet With Seo Interfaces – PR Leap (press release)
Mar 24th
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Self-Taught Seo Pro Wows Internet With Seo Interfaces
PR Leap (press release) Self taught software programmer and CEO of the Level One Network, Dan Miller, wows the internet world with SEO Scope and SEO Pro Connect. The Level One Network, still in pre-launch, combines SEO tools to facilitate search optimization marketing for all … |
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Leap Motion To Begin Shipping In May
Feb 27th
Leap Motion, the flash drive-sized controller that lets you manipulate your computer’s interface with a multitude of precise hand gestures, will begin shipping to customers who pre-ordered the device on May 13. In a partnership with Best Buy, the Leap Motion controller will also hit physical store shelves in the U.S. starting May 19.
Since the company’s founding last year, Leap Motion has advertised its product as a life-changing technological jump toward intuitive 3D software, while drawing in developers who will shortly offer a impressive suite of apps with functionality ranging from gaming and art to web browsing and 3D modeling. All these apps will be available in Leap Motion’s new app store, Airspace, says Leap Motion VP of Product Marketing Mike Zagorsek.
Starting with the sci-fi-influenced idea that computing of the future will be done seamlessly with hand gestures alone (think Minority Report), CEO Mike Buckwald and CTO David Holz co-founded Leap Motion with the aim of delivering a truly futuristic product. They predict that this kind of interface could change the way we interact with technology forever, from kitchen screens at McDonald’s to electronic music-creation tools for DJs, as ReadWrite editor in chief Dan Lyons wrote last December.
Apps Confirmed For Airspace
After launching its software development kit last year, Leap Motion began crafting a long string of partnerships with both high profile and independent developers. The list of confirmed app partners with products in the pipeline now includes 3D design software company Autodesk, painting and illustration app-maker Corel, Disney Interactive (with racing game Wreck It Ralph: Sugar Rush Speedway), independent game studio Double Fine (with music game Dischord), The Weather Channel, and ZeptoLab (with casual mobile game Cut the Rope).
Buckwald and Holtz will be at SXSW on Saturday, March 9 to talk with the Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Lessin in an event titled, “Leap Motion & The Disappearing Interface.” The company will also have a booth at the Austin, Texas-based festival that weekend to give the public its first chance to try out the device.
Pre-orders are still available from Leapmotion.com, for both U.S. and international orders. Bestbuy.com will also begin taking pre-orders as well starting today, but only for the U.S. The price, once $69.99, is now $79.99.
And just yesterday, the makers of the wildly successful productivity Mac app Clear announced that they will be adding Leap Motion support to the aesthetically pleasing list-maker. Check out Realmac Software’s video below for a demonstration:
Images courtesy of Leap Motion
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10 SEO tips to Adapt to Google Penguin Update by MiklinSEO – PR Leap (press release)
Feb 6th
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10 SEO tips to Adapt to Google Penguin Update by MiklinSEO
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The Mouse Is Dead: Long Live Tobii, Leonard3Do, Leap Motion & Oculus VR
Jan 15th
Pity the poor computer mouse. What with touchscreens and trackpads, mice are no longer the input devices of choice. And things are about to get a lot worse for the once-dominant computer controllers.
If I had to name my personal Best of Show for the Consumer Electronics Show last week, it would be Tobii, an eye-tracking startup that does one single, amazing thing: it lets you use your eyes to move the cursor around the screen.
As I thought about it a bit more, I realized that many of the companies that have impressed me the most of late have been those that offer new ways to physically interact with the PC and other computing devices: companies like Tobii, Leonard3Do, Leap Motion and Oculus VR.
Maybe it’s the influence of smartphones, Windows 8 and the Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 console. Suddenly, touch, voice, gestures and motion have become the ost talked-about ways of interacting with computers. Like many people, I’m perfectly content with using the mouse and keyboard as my preferred means of entering content. But that doesn’t mean that these other methods aren’t just as viable – especially when consuming content.
Tobii Rex
I was most impressed with Tobii, if only for its simplicity: it simply replaces the mouse with your eyes. A year ago, Tobii teamed up with Lenovo to design a custom notebook that integrated its eye-tracking or “gaze-tracking” software. Last week, the company showed off the Tobii Rex, a USB peripheral that can attach to the bottom of your LCD monitor. At this point, the Rex is a developer platform that costs about $1,000; however, the company will soon begin preorders for a limited run of 5,000 devices that will ship this fall. Pricing for that device, which may be known as the IS20, has not been announced.
Some have said relying too much on touch on a desktop PC could result in tired, “gorilla arms” after a few hours of use. With Tobii, that’s not an issue.
Tobii’s eye-tracking peripheral uses low-power infrared lights to illuminate your retina and cornea, tracking the reflections. Chief executive Heinrik Eskillsson assured me that the infrared posed no danger to people’s eyes, and wouldn’t cause additional fatigue. After a few seconds of training, including looking at colored balls to calibrate the device, I was able to interact with Windows 8 using just my eyes.
And in my experience, Tobii was amazing – not just for its potential, but because it worked extremely accurately, right now. In the demonstration, Tobii mapped the mouse keys to little-used keys on the keyboard, so that if I wanted to click on a widget, I simply looked at it, clicked, and moved ahead. It takes a second or two to remove one’s hands from the keyboard, find the mouse or trackpad, then realign them for typing. Tobii eliminates all that. Scrolling is accomplished simply by looking at the bottom or side of a window. Highlighting text is as easy as holding down the “mouse button” and moving the cursor (which appears only when you click.) Another reporter also recorded video of using Tobii during a version of “Asteroids”.
Scrolling in and out of a map was a bit trickier; instead of highlighting a point and then spinning a mouse wheel (or pinching), you looked at a spot and clicked in and out. Still, it worked just fine. The only drawback is that your gaze is essentially a single point of contact, so it can’t technically replace multitouch gestures. Still, for 99% of the interactions you’ll have with your computer, Tobii should be terrific.
Other eye tracking technology is apparently being used for research, with names like Applied Science Laboratories, Sensomotoric Instruments, Optitrack, or SR Research. But Tobii appears prepared to take eye-tracking tech mainstream.
Leonard3Do
Budapest-based Leonar3Do also wants to replace the mouse – with a bird. The winged “bird,” which users wave through space, incorporates horned antennas that helps Leonar3Do’s software manipulate 3D models.
What’s interesting, however, is that the models don’t “live” inside your monitor. Because Leonar3Do’s software is synced to a 3D monitor and goggles, the model appears to float outside the 2D display. (Leonar3Do has a non-embeddable video on its website with more information.)
In some ways, the bird didn’t appear to offer the sort of fine resolution that CAD designers would want, although Roland Manyai, the company’s director of marketing, sales and business development, denied that. However, it seemed nicely intuitive to be able to rotate, “push” and “pull” 3D models, deforming surfaces easily.
Leonar3Do was on hand at CES to launch HelloVR, a program that eliminates the “bird” and replaces it with the gyroscope found within a user’s smartphone. Interesting stuff, although serious modellers will still want the bird or something similar.
Oculus Rift
I wasn’t able to actually use Oculus VR Oculus Rift gaming headset directly. But old-school gamers will remember Virtuality, a 1990s-era arcade game where users wore a virtual reality headset to look about a primitive gamefield, shooting others with blocky pixels.
The Oculus Rift replaces those headsets with a similar pair of goggles employing a shared 1280 x 800 display that, most importantly, minimizes the latency that accompanied the previous versions. So far, Oculus appears to be marketing the Rift as a gaming peripheral, but it will be interesting to see what other applications it .
Leap Motion
ReadWrite’s Dan Lyons characterized Leap Motion as the hottest tech company of 2013, and in fact it might be. Leap’s technology lets users incorporate Kinect-style gestures into PCs and other devices, manipulating what’s on the screen without having to touch them. Leap’s technology sounds fascinating, but I’d still rather be able to manipulate objects with my eyes then be forced to physically gesture with them. Oh, who am I kidding – I’d like to have both.
But no matter whether it’s working with eyes or hands or heads, the most interesting products of the last few months involve translating physical movements into the virtual space. Companies like Tobii and others still face plenty of questions about pricing and availability, but it’s clear that these kinds of devices can anticipate a bright future.
For the venerable mouse, not so much.
Image sources: Oculus Rift/OculusVR.com; Leap Motion/LeapMotion.com
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SEO Firm Brick Marketing To Host Full-Day SEO Training Workshops in 10 US … – PR Leap (press release)
Jan 9th
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SEO Firm Brick Marketing To Host Full-Day SEO Training Workshops in 10 US …
PR Leap (press release) (PRLEAP.COM) Boston, MA, January 9, 2013 –Brick Marketing, an SEO firm in Boston, Massachusetts is launching its first national SEO training program in 10 major cities across the United States. Brick Marketing has hosted full day SEO training workshops … SEO Company in Harrisburg Now Guarantees 1st Page Google Ranking Outsmart Your Rivals Through Engineered SEO Solutions from SEOIndia.co.in |
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Leap Motion Raises Money, Strikes Deal, Gains Momentum
Jan 3rd
Things keep getting better for Leap Motion, the little startup whose 3D motion controller gizmo could be one of the hottest products of 2013.
The San Francisco-based company has struck a deal with Asus, which will bundle the Leap Motion controller with laptops and all-in-one PCs. Also, Leap Motion has raised a third round of venture capital, this one worth $30 million, from existing investors, including Founders Fund and Highland Capital.
“Our investors really love the progress we’ve made over the last six to seven months,” says Andy Miller, president and chief operating officer at Leap Motion. “And the bundling of our controller with mainstream laptops and computers is really good validation that this is the year of the changing user interface, and Leap is right in the middle of that trend.”
The Leap Motion controller lets you control a computer using hand gestures in the air. It’s a bit like the Microsoft Kinect controller but far more accurate. You’ll be able to check it out in person next week at CES, where Asus will be demonstrating the device.
Or you can check it out in this video:
More Deals Are Coming Soon
Miller, a former top executive at Apple, joined Leap Motion last year. He says more deals like the one with Asus will be announced later this year. Better yet, some PC makers are going a step further and will embed the Leap Motion controller right into their machines, so you won’t need an external controller. (For now you need to hook up the little 1-inch-by-3-inch controller via USB cable.)
Leap Motion will start shipping the controller sometime early this year, priced at $69.99. The company has already received pre-orders worth tens of millions of dollars, Miller says.
Leap Motion is encouraging developers to create special apps that take advantage of 3D motion gestures, and will sell those in a special app store. So far more than 40,000 developers have applied to get a software development kit for the Leap Motion controller.
Possible uses go way beyond computers. Miller says Leap Motion has been contacted by thousands of businesses with all sorts of ideas for how to use this technology. “We’re going to have announcements about deals in medical and automotive pretty soon,” he says.
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The ClickMinded Online SEO Training Course Updated with Penguin, Panda … – PR Leap (press release)
Dec 28th
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The ClickMinded Online SEO Training Course Updated with Penguin, Panda …
PR Leap (press release) COM) After receiving frequent and relentless feedback from users and students, the ClickMinded online SEO training course, a class dedicated to teaching startups how search engine optimization fundamentally works, has just released a massive curriculum … |
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Long Island SEO Company, Benjamin Marc Announces the Launch of 3 New … – PR Leap (press release)
Dec 23rd
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Long Island SEO Company, Benjamin Marc Announces the Launch of 3 New …
PR Leap (press release) (PRLEAP.COM) Long Island Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Company, Benjamin Marc announces the launch of 3 new website to add to their portfolio. Web Design & SEO Firm Benjamin Marc has been designing and developing websites for small & large … |
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