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(This was too good not to share!) Microsoft seems to have plenty of nifty innovations up its sleeve! In this new video, Gary Flake (Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and the founder and director of Live Labs) demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online.
Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.
Looking forward to this rolling out for public use… this would be an incredible move forward in how we consume, sift through and make sense of the ever-increasing amount of data and media on the Internet (and offline!).
The official website can be found at http://www.getpivot.com/
After Blaise Aguera y Arcas offered a tantalizing peek at the world of Microsoft PhotoSynth a couple of years ago, he recently made a return to TED to demo the latest incredible innovation in mapping. …
Save Money and Build Relationships with Direct Digital Marketing
By Brian Deagan
Despite unpredictable economic conditions, one truth endures for the hospitality industry – there is always room for improvement to the guest experience. In tough economic …
Meet Emily….or the digital recreation of Emily, at least.
At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.
From …
If you’re switched on to the Mobile world, you’ve probably seen (and possibly even used) a QR (Quick Response) Code. These weird looking symbols are probably going to change the way we deploy direct marketing …
Augmented reality is a hot new area for Research & Development in the Mobile Tech & Marketing field. Emagin defines it as “a display in which simulated imagery, graphics, or symbology is superimposed on a …
In an eerie but mind-blowing integration of Facebook Data, X-Box has developed a superb online game demo that is bound to give you goose-bumps! Enough said, check out the demo at www.prototype-experience.com (depending on your …
A great new video doing the rounds on the Internet, in true ‘Did You Know’ style (the original video by Karl Fisch that captured our imaginations). This video asks – Is social media a fad? …
Since innovation is such a crucial part of what we do as New Tech marketers, the approach taken by businesses to foster that innovation is absolutely vital. I guess we all know intuitively that we’re …
I finally had the chance to grab a little time with Naufel, whose Marketing course I attended at London Business School, to ask a few questions about how he got where he is, what excites …
Here’s quite an entertaining and thought-provoking speech by Alain de Botton about Success…and our perceptions of this elusive concept.
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these …
While most traditional marketers, media gurus and public relations experts grapple with just how to leverage the power of digital media and social networks…real emerging trends sometimes go unnoticed. Sometimes all it takes is to …
Very early on this month, a colleague (thanks Lola!) sent me a copy of Peter Kim’s collaborative compilation of thoughts by bloggers on Social Media. I loved the format and the power that collaboration could harness…bringing together the …
Recession, Identity and the Art of War
Is the end really nigh?
A recession is here again….and as with every economic downturn, echoes of despair and quick fixes permeate the wires. That’s all well, of course, except …
Someone from Global Fluency recently got in touch with the CMO council’s 2009 Marketing Outlook Report. I think the report reflects pretty much what we’ve been hearing lately from marketers around the globe and in …
Watched this remarkable video and couldn’t help noticing the striking similarity in some of the applications as MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense Project (except the holograms, of course…surely those shouldn’t be that far away too?)
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