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07.22.2010
How Coca-Cola Created Its “Happiness Machine”
Categorie: News
Tags:view postThe key ingredients, as always, are imagination and hard work. Both Coke and Definition 6 put an enormous amount of creativity, time and energy into “The Happiness Machine.” “One thing to take a way is that it wasn’t a fluke,” Iannacchino said. “A lot of work went into it.”
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07.20.2010
Facebook Showcase: a gallery of the best brands of Facebook pages
Categorie: Trends
Tags: facebookview postAn effective way to surf among different brands and try to learn the best practices for your own Facebook page
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07.10.2010
Tissot: Augmented Reality Product Experience
Categorie: Technology
Tags: ARview postTissot has launched an augmented reality product experience for their swiss watch collection and I’ve been meaning to post it up for about a month now! Augmented Reality is still very much about generating promotional buzz, but this, like very few others, is more than that, it’s a product experience that has a very clear [...]
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07.06.2010
5 Key Trends of 2010: Half-Year Report for The Web
Categorie: Trends
Tags: Trendsview postIt’s now a little over 6 months into 2010, so a good time to reflect on the highlights of the year so far. At the beginning of the year, we identified some key trends to track: (in alphabetical order) Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Mobile, Real-Time Web, Structured Data.
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07.05.2010
Real-Time Image Tracking & Recognition Comes to the iPhone
Categorie: Technology
Tags: AR, iPhone, Technologyview postWhen the iPhone 4 was introduced to the world earlier this month, we discussed how various additions might improve the user experience for mobile augmented reality (AR), including the forward-facing camera, the gyroscope and the high-resolution screen. The most important improvement, however, is the addition of live camera access, and metaio, one of the largest [...]
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06.26.2010
New Network Design Could Make the Internet 100 Times Faster
Categorie: Technology
Tags: Technologyview postA group of MIT researchers has demonstrated a method of network topology that could render the Internet 100 or even 1,000 times faster than it is today.
The “magic” behind the concept is to eliminate or reduce the most time-intensive part of data transmission, which involves converting an optical signal into an electrical signal for memory [...] -
06.24.2010
Is Geofencing the Next Evolution for Location Apps? Location Labs Thinks So
Categorie: Mobile > Technology
Tags: Technologyview postWait, what the heck is geofencing? No, it’s not some virtual sword fighting app for your phone. Geofencing, or a geofence, is exactly what its name implies – a virtually fenced-off geographic location. When this concept is applied to mobile phones, it refers to a device’s ability to receive automatic alerts or notifications when entering, [...]
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06.23.2010
ScanLife Provides Free Barcode Scanning SDK for Android Developers
Categorie: Mobile > Technology
Tags: barccodeview postAs smartphone manufacturers improve on the hardware included in their devices, the possibilities for mobile app developers continue to expand. With the speedy new mobile processors and the high resolution cameras, image recognition apps have become very popular on smartphones, and companies like Occipital, makers of RedLaser on the iPhone, make it easy to embed [...]
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06.17.2010
iOS and Android Continue to Battle for Supremacy [STATS]
Categorie: Trends
Tags: Android, iPhone, statsview postAdMob released its May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report today. In addition to giving the latest information on devices and usage share in the U.S. online, the report also looks at emerging trends over the last two years.
The big takeaways should be familiar to mobile stats watchers: iPhone and iOS devices continue to dominate worldwide but [...]