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Vivir sin comas. LaserDisc, multimedia y Resines: Así era la publicidad de tecnología hace no tanto. Blog — How Google is Killing Organic Search. Google won search by providing the best organic results users had ever seen. Ever since then, organic has been fading from the SERPS, losing ground to revenue generating Google products. The Algorithms of Our Lives. Phototrails.net The author and several colleagues studied cultural differences using these computerized patterns of Instagram postings—arranged by hue and brightness—from Tokyo, New York, Bangkok, and San Francisco.

The Algorithms of Our Lives

In 2002, I was in Cologne, Germany, and I went into the best bookstore in the city devoted to humanities and arts titles. Its new-media section contained hundreds of books. However, not a single title was about the key driver of the "computer age": software. Los medios al gobierno, el software al poder (leyendo a Manovich) (I) Como los lectores de Hipermediaciones habrán detectado me entusiasmó mucho el libro Software Takes Command de Lev Manovich.

Los medios al gobierno, el software al poder (leyendo a Manovich) (I)

En mi doble reseña de La Semiosis Social 2 de Eliseo Verón (ver primera y segunda parte) hice mención a este texto que, sin dudas, generará nuevas conversaciones y debates en el ámbito de las teorías de los medios. ¿Por qué? Porque el libro de Manovich propone una innovadora teoría de los medios software-centred. Como en otras ocasiones resumiré brevemente el contenido del libro y, al mismo tiempo, dejaré caer algunos comentarios y reflexiones. 27 Things Only Developers Will Find Funny - BuzzFeed. Una infografía con la historia de las redes sociales. The Evolution of the Web. 1,700-year-old tablet reveals ancient magical curses. ...Further standardised tests showed it can stay autonomous for some 1700 years without recharging, the reflection is handled pretty well actually not getting in the way of reading on a bright day, and there are no fingerprints on the screen what so ever!

1,700-year-old tablet reveals ancient magical curses

The resolution is surely the highlight of the device. DPI is astonishing - you can't see individual pixels even with a microscope, so definitely not a budget product. Competing firms should be very aware of the newcomer on the packed tablet scene just cause of that. The design of the device bears a special mention - innovative and original use of materials, but holding to tradition and usability, i(ron)Tablet will attract views from anyone in the vicinity! Now for the not so good stuff: The initial edge of the tablet was smooth and ergonomical, but, as our tests showed, lots of wear and tear can roughen out the lines and the feeling of holding a well balanced tablet can suffer. Un diccionario para la lectura y escritura que nace de la revolución digital. Extreme Reality, Which Gives Any Webcam Kinect-Like Powers, Opens Its Developer SDK - TechCrunch. Extreme Reality, an Israeli startup backed by SV Angel, has been at work for eight years on building motion capture technology.

Extreme Reality, Which Gives Any Webcam Kinect-Like Powers, Opens Its Developer SDK - TechCrunch

How the Internet of Things Changes Everything. As models wearing Google Glass tromped down runways in New York earlier this month, it might have been tempting to see wearable digital devices -- including experimental headgear (what looks like a pair of eyeglasses without lenses that immerse the user in the Internet), smart watches (Web-surfing computers in the form of wristwatches), and running shoes and athletic apparel with built-in data sensors -- as just the latest fad.

How the Internet of Things Changes Everything

In fact, they represent a more profound change that is reshaping major industries, even as it blurs the lines between humans and computers. What has made such devices possible is the interplay between two of what the McKinsey Global Institute has identified as among the most disruptive technologies of the coming decade: the mobile Internet and the Internet of Things. The mobile Internet is the ability to access the Web on mobile devices.

To continue reading, please log in. Don't have an account? Of editors and algorithms: Evan Williams on the future of media and Medium’s role in it. Ever since Medium arrived on the scene a little over a year ago, created by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams and his partner Biz Stone at Obvious Corp., there has been much debate about what exactly Medium is — and also what it is trying to become.

Of editors and algorithms: Evan Williams on the future of media and Medium’s role in it

In a conversation with TechCrunch, Williams made it clear that he thinks something like Medium is the future of online media: a platform similar to a magazine, but one that anyone can write for, where algorithms and editors work together to find the best writing Over the past few weeks, Medium has come under fire for hosting some controversial content, including a rant about life in San Francisco and a story about a writer whose home was raided by the FBI because of the content of her Google searches – which later turned out not to true. Software Takes Command by Bloomsbury Publishing. El fin de las relaciones: ¿Qué es el Phubbing? En el idioma inglés empezó a llamarse “Phubbing” a dejar de prestarle atención a la persona que tenés al lado por mirar tu celular.

El fin de las relaciones: ¿Qué es el Phubbing?

Preferir mirar a la pantalla de tu teléfono para actualizar un estado de Facebook, para publicar algo en Twitter (o leer el timeline), para enviar mensajes por WhatsApp, jugar, pedir vidas en el Candy Crush, o lo que sea. Elegir al aparato por sobre la persona que tenés en frente. Para algunos es una costumbre y para otros es el fin de las relaciones y de la civilización como la conocemos. Por eso ya hay una movida para erradicar el phubbing, o dejar en claro que es una costumbre de mala educación. No suele pasar que uno eructe delante del otro en una comida con su pareja, o está mal visto que se le escape una flatulencia… y de la misma manera quieren estigmatizar al phubbing. Popularlibros.com - Did you know the BOOK? English subtitles.

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