Translate That French Menu With Your Android Phone And Google Goggles. When Google first announced the Goggles feature last year, we thought the product could be huge leap forward in the field of visual search. Goggles allows you to you point your phone;s camera at something and Google figures out what it is. At the Mobile World Congress earlier this year, Google showed off the translation capabilities of the visual application in German. Today, the search giant is officially launching translation capabilities in the new version of of Google Goggles for the English, French, Italian, German and Spanish languages. With the translation feature of Goggles, you can point your phone at a word or phrase and draw a box around specific words that you don’t understand.
In addition to translation, the new version of Goggles includes improved barcode recognition, recognition of many more products, artwork and logos, an improved user interface, and the ability to begin visual searches using images in your phone’s photo gallery. Vous êtes populaires? Vous voulez l'être? Aidez à traduire Twitter! Un aperçu de Blackberry 6 en vidéo - ChristopheW's posterous. Booyah Hits 2 Million, Stealing Foursquare’s Thunder. Just a quick update on yesterday’s post on Booyah: While we were busy trying to guess the number of jellybeans in Foursquare’s jar, Booyah was quietly, but swiftly, amassing new users.
Guess what, it just hit the 2 million mark. As I mentioned previously, the company was on track to gain roughly 500,000 users a month. MyTown reached the landmark on Monday night, a 100% gain from less than three months ago. 2010 has been a great year for the iPhone app: hitting half a million in January, 1 million in February, and now 2 million in May. For comparison, Foursquare has roughly 1.1 million users, Gowalla is sitting near 250,000. Booyah is aggressively tweaking the app’s functionality, it released version 3.1 on Tuesday and plans to release the next version later this month.
The company also says it’s working on letting users add locations on top of the current database to address one of the major complaints about the service. MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience - Nominees announced for 2010 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards. We’re excited to announce the nominees for the 2010 MEX User Experience Awards, hosted at the MEX Conference on 19th May. They are listed below in the 5 categories, with links to the entry videos and graphics, as well as profiles for the judges and information on the criteria used. The MEX Awards is all about the importance of user-centred design in mobile.
Now in its 3rd year, the Awards has received international TV coverage from Reuters and TelecomTV, providing a showcase for former winners such as the Blind Phone (2008) and Digitag (2009). This year has seen 42 entries from all over the world, with students, freelancers and companies competing to demonstrate the cutting edge of mobile user experience innovation. Entries closed on 30th April and, since then, our 5 judges have been working overtime to decide the short-list nominees, who will be invited to attend the MEX Awards in London. The freelance category is for products developed by self-employed individuals. No comments yet. Ovi Maps in your Own Voice | Nokia Conversations - The official Nokia Blog. Microsoft Kin Two (Kin2) unboxing and hands-on video. Microsoft’s KIN lineup of consumer oriented not-so-smartphones has just gone official. Since Microsoft unveiled the KIN phones last month, the company has been mostly quiet about their consumer-friendly, social network-savvy slider phones.
But, that didn’t stop us from getting our hands on our very own Kin Two! While Marin drops some knowledge about the more compact Kin One, I’ll be taking you on a brief hardware tour of the Kin Two. Known previously by it’s Project Pink “Pure” codename, the Kin Two is the larger, more capable sibling to the Microsoft Kin One, and it’s almost good enough of a feature phone to be consider a smartphone competitor – almost.
The Kin2′s spec-sheet reads like a lot of other smartphones on the market today – it’s got an impressive camera, large touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, browses the web, plays music and video (through the Zune media player) connects with social networks, and does email without breaking a sweat. There are some problems, though. The Blessing and Curse of Training Technology. The landscape of training and coaching technology has changed pretty dramatically in the last decade. Just as our phones, computers, and televisions have transformed, so has the hardware we train with and the software we utilize to analyze our training.
If you would have told me ten years ago that I would be able to train with a device that tracks my heart rate, pace and distance real-time via GPS, doubles as a cycle computer, and can be used to analyze a wide variety of metrics post-workout, including a 3D satellite overview of my route—all for about $200—I would have said you were crazy. This same device can be uploaded to a computerized cycle trainer and the outdoor route you just trained on can be recreated in 3D virtual reality. The front wheel of your bicycle will be elevated in sync with changes in course grade, and even wind resistance can be programmed into the software. Sounds far fetched? All of this is technology is currently available. Buying the Right Device. Our revenue share with operator billing. - Page 2 - Developer Discussion Boards. Forrester chiffre l'influence des médias sociaux.
Dans une étude intitulée « Peer Influence Analysis », Forrester cherche à mieux cerner les mécanismes d’influence et de bouche à oreille sur le web. Le cabinet d’études estime que 500 milliards « d’impressions » à propos des produits et services sont échangées chaque année sur les médias sociaux aux Etats-Unis. Pour parvenir à ce chiffre, Forrester a questionné un panel de 10 000 personnes en demandant sur quels sites ils émettaient des avis, pour quels produits et services, à quelle fréquence et par combien d’internautes ils étaient suivis. Sur la base des données recueillies, Forrester distingue deux types d’influence. Le premier est celui de l’expression sur les blogs et forums. Les auteurs de l’étude rappellent aussi qu’une minorité d’individus génère la majorité des impressions : 80% des 1,6 milliards de messages publiés sur les blogs et les forums sont produits par 13,6% des internautes et 80% des impressions sur les réseaux sociaux sont à mettre au crédit de 6,2% des membres.
GPS, did you know? | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com. May 1, 2010 marked the 10 year anniversary of GPS for civilian use. On May 1, 2000 President Bill Clinton made a more precise GPS signal available for civilian use and changed the course of navigation forever. GISuser: Known as "selective availability", this block was set up by the US government to prevent the military use of GPS by their enemies. Clinton's decision to turn off the GPS interference signal helped mobile satellite navigation to finally make its breakthrough. Navigon, in a press release commemorating the anniversary noted a couple of fun facts about GPS. For example, did you know: It's also worth noting that the iPad 3G, which comes with real GPS, began shipping this weekend. Tip: David Morgenstern.
Preview/Review of the Apple iPad « Mobile in Japan. I’m a bit wishy washy about the title of this article as the iPad has had it’s US launch, but it hasn’t launched in Japan (or anywhere else in the world) yet, and we are still a weeks away from Apple’s “magic” device arriving on our shores officially. Through the efforts of great friends at Rinkya (a must use service for non-Japan based people to purchase hard to find Japanese goods), I was able to procure a 16GB wi-fi iPad just a couple days after the US launch. I’ve had it for several weeks now and have been trying to figure out what the iPad is and what it isn’t, and most importantly, is it worth getting one. After spending many hours with the device (it has hardly left my sight since I first got my hands on it), I can confidently say “maybe”.
What the iPad is: The iPad of course is the new tablet device released by Apple to fill the void between the mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the laptop Macbook line. What the iPad is not: What about eBooks? To 3G or not to 3G. AdWords for mobile is fully available. 5 Simple Tools for a Paperless Office. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Despite living in the age of e-mail, wireless networks, smartphones, and tablets, many small businesses are still beholden to paper. There are a variety of reasons for this. Often, it's the other businesses or government agencies that you interface with that demand paper forms or faxes. Sometimes, it's just that old habits die hard. However, there are software solutions to some old paper problems that don't require the network infrastructure of a large corporation.
And making a small technology investment now could save your business a bundle long-term — not to mention reducing its wasteful reliance on paper products. 1. We mostly see PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) files as immutable documents — the opposite of an editable MS Word file. 2. PDF995 is free, but it is ad supported. 3. 4. 5. New Twitter Client Highlights Android's Fragmentation | News & Opinion. Twitter's unveiled its first official application for the mobile Android operating system and, a boon to developers everywhere, Google is planning to open-source the application's code. The move will allow interested parties to develop their own augmentations to the app that tap into Twitter's various APIs, giving rise to new features for keeping tabs on everyone's up-to-the-minute updates.
Or, at least, almost everyone. The Twitter application only works on version 2.1 of the Android OS or higher. According to eWeek, that restricts the application to three mobile devices: the Motorola Droid, Google Nexus One, and the HTC Incredible. If you take a look at Google's Platform Versions chart for Android—based on a 14-day period ending April 12, 2010—the fragmented picture of the various Android versions gets a little crazier. As it stands, only 27.3 percent of all Android users would even be able to install Twitter for Android to begin with.
Dan Frommer, of Business Insider, puts it best: Microsoft se détourne aussi du Flash au profit de l'HTML 5 et du H.264 - Numerama. New Balance NB 576 « France » - Juiced Magazine. Official Twitter App for Android Goes Live. Advertisements After a really long wait, but a worth one, Twitter has finally come up with an official app for the Android.
It looks great, brewed by Twitter itself and integrates itself to the phone’s contacts list. Official Twitter App for Android on Nexus One The official Twitter app for Android is excellent ! Some of the key features of the app are as follows. A widget on the home screen which allows you to update your Twitter status without having to launch the app over and over again. Première publicité pour le Samsung Galaxy S | FrAndroid - LA communauté francophone Android. Apple and Nokia Gain in Smartphone Sales. Posterous Starts Automatically Inserting Affiliate Links Into Sites, Forgets To Tell Users. We’ve been tracking super-simple publishing service Posterous for quite a while now, and for the most part they’ve turned us into big fans. Unfortunately, they’ve just committed a fairly serious blunder.
In a post earlier today, one Posterous user stumbled across the fact that his site was automatically converting all of his links to affiliate links using VigLink. There isn’t anything sinister about VigLink — the service helps publishers generate revenue without having to manually insert affiliate links themselves, and has received funding from Google Ventures, First Round Capital, and some prominent angel investors. But Posterous neglected to inform its users that it was starting to monetize all of their links, which is a breach of user trust. Co-founder Sachin Agarwal agrees — in a phone interview he conceded that Posterous should definitely have informed users about the change (they’re currently drafting a statement about the incident). Open Letter to Steve Jobs (Hugo Roy/hugo's blog) At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs.
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Launched in 2005, Techmeme remains independent, bootstrapped, and privately held. Apple vs. Adobe Flash: What Steve Jobs really means. Simeon Simeonov is founder and CEO of startup advisory FastIgnite. Reading Steve Jobs’ open letter with “thoughts on Flash” literally — as an argument about Flash’s capabilities or lack thereof — is a diversion from its deeper message, which is that Apple is willing to throw its recently-gained weight around in a big power play against all major platform companies save one — Oracle. (Have Steve and Larry Ellison partitioned the world on a napkin? I’ll take consumer and digital media and you take everything else?) Apple is taking advantage of what essentially amounts to a cross-subsidy: using the economic and market momentum of its combined hardware/OS platform to do two things: 1. 2.
Apple’s actions are not surprising, even independent of the company’s history of favoring closed systems. Flash is a favored format for delivering interactive and video advertising — dozens of companies offer measurement, analytics, ad selection, targeting and delivery solutions based on Flash. What’s More Accurate Than GPS? Photographs. Locations identified within the 10 or 20 meters possible by GPS today are far too inaccurate — we need to know where we are we are right down to the millimeter! That was the gauntlet thrown down by Michael Liebhold, distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, speaking at a GigaOM Pro Bunker Session on location at the GigaOM office this week. With millimeter accuracy, augmented reality — digital information overlaid on a real-time view of the world — will actually become possible. “Right now we have all this toy AR,” said Liebhold. “This is useless.” So how do we get to millimeter accuracy? The Google project is scary, said Liebhold.
Liebhold did mention one promising startup effort in the space: Earthmine out of Berkeley, Calif., is building a set of street-view images captured in 3-D with every pixel geo-coded. Intrigued as to how soon millimeter accuracy might happen and what it could enable? Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d): Image courtesy of Flickr user jmlawlor. CHART OF THE DAY: Why Twitter Ads Might Actually Work. Les applications sur la carte SD, pour bientôt ? | FrAndroid - LA communauté francophone Android. HTC expects smartphone shipment increase on back of Android - Google 24/7 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech. Droid Incredible - changing the way I work again | Googling Google | ZDNet.com. Siri acquired by Apple; iPhone <em>becomes</em> the Virtual Personal Assistant? | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com. Microsoft Research TechFair 2010: Face-to-face conversations on innovation. 5 Free Services for Pre-Scheduling Your Twitter Updates. iPad be damned: JooJoo working on 3G deals in Europe?
Samsung's Android push to be strong. Le trafic web généré par Android dépasserait celui de l'iPhone aux US! non, vraiment? - ChristopheW's posterous. La Google TV dévoilée le mois prochain - Numerama. Thoughts on Flash. Facenews - L'actualité du moment recommandée par vos amis et les utilisateurs de Facebook. Parrot's Photos. L'ergonomie de la lecture. Sony to Announce Android TVs Running on Atom at Google I/O | Android Phone Fans.
The Future of Marketing Starts with Publishing Part 2. Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project. The Best Twitter Tools and Twitter Apps - oneforty. LTE的引入策略和未来商业模式的点滴思路-记labs第二届博客嘉年华感受_xudayong_博客_移动Labs. The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers. Early Version of Firefox Lands on Android Phones.