http://www.ted.com 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.
Archive for October, 2009
Stunning Human Face animation
Posted in Augmented Reality, Fun, Holographic, Transhumanism, Virtual world on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wikipedia for Data
Posted in Banks, Cloud, Mash-ups, Semantic Web, WebTrends, global brain on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My colleague Mariela popped into my office the other day: “Peter, when we talk cloud computing we should highlight something fundamental: it’s about making DATA more accessible/interoperable, more than making applications interoperable”.
In essence, she saw that Cloud computing is in essence about
OPEN DATA
Mariela is right on.
This is btw one of the big [...]
New Money and Payments
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Mobile, Money, WebTrends on October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The last couple of days there have been several blogs reporting on new types of money and payments.
First there was the great interview of Steve Boyd with Jamais Cascio.
Some highlights of the highlights:
You have to get a critical mass of people to agree in a new fantasy.
Groups with shared purposes could in fact [...]
Re-Inventing Wall Street: Finance 2.0
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Money, Think Tank on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When Umair Hague posts something on his blog, i always take some extra quality time to read.
Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation.
Always sharp, and always in [...]
Augmented Reality is Real Now
Posted in Android, Augmented Reality, Mash-ups, Mobile, User Interface, Virtual world on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The big news this week is that Layar’s iPhone App is approved and available.
From now on we call it the “Reality Browser”
See also sub-line “Available for Android”. I clicked on the Android Marketplace and this is what i got.
Also have a look at the 162 Layers that are [...]
Droid vs. iPhone
Posted in Android, Mobile, Think Tank, User Interface on October 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The blogs are full these days of Android phones coming to the market. Especially on the Verizon-Motorola-Android phone that is being launches as we speak.
I just picked one of the articles: the one from Michael Arrington on TechMeme.
+++Update: very complete update by Scobleizer on 8 Nov 2009.
From a US perspective probably the key differentiators is [...]
Future of shopping by Cisco
Posted in Augmented Reality, Enjoy, User Interface on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life is full of synchronicities. This week we had a meeting with the Innovation team of Cisco to learn from each other how we stimulate innovation in our organizations and ecosystems.
I was surprised how much Cisco is “looking” more and more like Microsoft. Not from product side, but from the way on how they look [...]
Augmented Reality: Sunday Techno Brunch
Posted in Augmented Reality, Enjoy, Fun on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just had a really lazy sunday morning brunch served in an a-typical techno fashion.
Fun found via Josh Spear’s Today and Tomorrow.
Link to the video here.
The comments (in dutch) are also funny: “it’s a strict-continental breakfast”, or “it’s all about solving problems, not about delivering a fantastic breakfast”.
This is a really good example where my [...]
The Power of Choice
Posted in Cloud, Crowdsourcing, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Think Tank on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great post on the confused of calcutta.
How consumerization of IT now really starts hitting the enterprise. Quite obvious, and i am sure you too use more and more external tools like Google Docs, iPhone Apps, Drop-It and other company external services to get your job done.
The article however is on something more profound that is [...]
Google Wave for Dummies
Posted in Google Wave, Mash-ups, Think Tank, WebTrends on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Apparently this video gets 1 billion hits per day ? Hardly can believe that. 1 billion is big number. Anyway, let me add 10-20 additional hits by linking to it from my blog
This animation is cute, but does not add much to the content that was part of the [...]
