The latest works. The latest works(The first one) "Dongururin"* *Rotation of donguri (acorns). "Gururin" means rotation. Rings of donguri appear to rotate. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (July 3, 2003) "Gaku ga gakugaku"* *Frames are misaligned. Blue frames that form squares appear to be misaligned at the borders between red and green. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (June 16, 2003) "Advance" - Thanks to Michael - The ring appears to approach.
A related work with the same name Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (May 25, 2003)(c)Akiyoshi Kitaoka "Trick eyes 2" Tokyo: KANZEN 2003 (I corrected English in my web pages with the help of Michael on 25th May, 2003) "Spa" Rectangles appear to move. Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (May 16, 2003)(c)Akiyoshi Kitaoka "Trick eyes 2" Tokyo: KANZEN 2003 "Expanding cushions" Cushions appear to expand.
Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (April 30, 2003)(c)Akiyoshi Kitaoka "Trick eyes 2" Tokyo: KANZEN 2003 "Convection" Round objects appear to move around the squares slowly. "A black hole" A black hole appears to approach you. E-biznes.pl: eCommerce, internet marketing. CzasNaE-Biznes. Odnieść sukces. HackFwd. 9 Ways To Measure The (Actual) Success Of Your Social-Media Community. In the hype that is social media marketing, it is often hard to distinguish between the braggadocio and the brilliant.
Communities are launched with great fanfare only to slink away quietly into the burial ground of false promise. So to stumble across a vibrant community— one that predates Facebook and supports a B2B brand— is not just surprising, it is downright awe-inspiring. Thanks to the support of an enlightened board member in 2003, the SAP Community Network (SCN) was able to overcome internal naysayers, and gradually grow into a 2.5 million-member social business juggernaut.
Now heading community operations, Chip Rodgers, who I interviewed in advance of his presentation at the B2B Corporate Social Media Summit, the SCN sets a high standard, revealing these 9 ways to know your community is truly awesome. 1. Because communities are still considered a luxury by some executives and a risk by many (rightly or wrongly) there is tremendous pressure in the early days to achieve scale. 2. LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: Data Wrangler of The Modern Age. Reid Hoffman, angel investor, co-founder of LinkedIn and Fast Company Most Creative Person, took the stage at SXSW interactive as part of the distinguished speaker series, and immediately brought the ballroom back to the future. “What are we stumbling toward here?” Recalling the visions of a shiny future of yester-technology. “In the ‘50s and ‘70s, the predictions were flying cars, robots, and computers that would advance the boundaries of physics,” said Hoffman. “It was the Jetsons. None of that has come true.”
Instead says Hoffman, he encouraged the entrepreneurs and technologists who want to embrace the future need to understand the nuances of data in an information age. Hoffman has reason to love data. Reid ticked through the waves of internet development. “Think about the truth in wikileaks and in the Middle East,” he said. He challenged the audience to play along on Twitter. Hoffman said he invests in anything that aggregates humanity--“marketplaces, networks or platforms.” Predator better than Kinect? Just when you thought Kinect had the body tracking problem all sewn up, another approach promises to be cheaper and implementable using nothing but software and standard video cameras. The good news is that the software is open source, download-able and ready to go. Predator is based on a machine learning algorithm and can track almost any object the user cares to select. All you have to do is provide an initial bounding box that includes the object to be tracked and the system then builds a model of what it looks like.
The model is used to track the object as it changes its angle to the camera. Even if it leaves the frame and re-enters it at a new angle the software can detect it and track it again. The algorithm and program are the creation of Zdenek Kalal as part of his PhD project. The really astonishing part is that the algorithm needs no training period. You can see the algorithm in action in the video below and you have to agree that it is impressive. More information. High-Quality Open Source Body Tracking Sans Kinect. Eye Tracking Heatmaps for Websites | Attention Wizard | Home Page. Konqueror - What is Konqueror?
The Lean Startup | The Movement That Is Transforming How New Products Are Built And Launched. Customer Development. The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. To celebrate the debut of the Japan edition of “The Startup Owner’s Manual” and to express great thanks to Steve and his co-author Bob Dorf, I would like to reflect back what first drew me to this book and offer Steve’s worldwide readers a look at the progress of Customer Development and the Lean LaunchPad class in Japan.
The Crater in my rookie days Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. This made me believe deeply in the extreme importance of talking to customers before investing time and money, something I took to my next startup. Startup Genome - Our mission is to amplify the power of entrepreneurs. With the Startup Genome Project we want to do for startups what Pandora did for Music in order to understand how innovation happens at a fundamental level and the spread the knowledge.
Uncovering the DNA of successful start-ups | Geek Gestalt. If you spend much time with Web entrepreneurs or investors these days, it quickly becomes clear that "pivot" is the hottest term in Silicon Valley. It signifies a young company's shifting of focus, and everyone has an opinion about whether it's something start-ups should be doing or not. The answer, it seems, is yes. And as long as it's done at the right pace, it can even be an extremely lucrative and important step. In fact, young Web outfits that pivot once or twice can raise two-and-a-half times as much money, see 3.6 times the user growth, and are half as likely to scale too soon than start-ups that either never pivot or that do so more than twice.
That was one of the major conclusions of the initial report of the Startup Genome project, an initiative put together by a group of Silicon Valley investors that aims to identify the DNA of successful Internet start-ups and the teams and investors that build them. Here are some other major conclusions: Does it make sense? What's next? Start-up Advice. I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company. I think the sign of a good entrepreneur is the ability to spot your mistakes, correct quickly and not repeat the mistakes. I made plenty of mistakes. Below are some of the lessons I learned along the way. If there’s a link on a title below I’ve written the post, if not I plan to. The summary of each posting will be here but the full article requires you to follow the links. For now it’s mostly an outline for me to follow (in no particular order).
Disclaimer: I ran two SaaS software companies. 1. 2. You also need to consider founder scenarios, ownership, prenuptials and stock options. Learning to work with lawyers. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable. I have often said that what separates real entrepreneurs from pundits and bystanders is a bias towards getting things done versus over analyzing things. My credo has always been JFDI. It’s the hardest thing to teach people who come out of big companies, out of conservative jobs.
At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. Good enough isn’t. And so things operate on a CYA basis. That doesn’t work in a startup. There’s a certain cadence that you can feel when you spend time hanging any well-run startup company. The startup entrepreneur knows that they’re going to be wrong often. In fact, analysis paralysis drives me fucking bonkers. Minecraft. Infomous. Open Compute Project. Znak it! - The Solution (6) TED: Ideas worth spreading. StumbleUpon.com: Discover the Best of the Web.
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