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Futurist Speaker Thomas Frey - Messing with the Reality of Reality Next Generation Gaming is Not for the Faint of Heart Life is a game. Every day we find ourselves in the middle of the game, involving the work we do, the people we hang out with, and the social structures that surround us. But who exactly created this game? Each day we live our lives as animated playing pieces, playing by rules that others created. In the future, the very near future, nothing we hold dear today will remain sacred. It Starts with the Avatar Think first of the lowly avatar, that cartoonish representation of ourselves, sent as our personal emissary to experience online, virtual worlds. Google recently announced a system for avatar portability, enabling us to have one avatar that seamlessly crosses from one virtual world to the next. Avatars will learn from us. With each generation of avatar, they will become more life-like, growing in realism, pressing the limits of autonomy as we become more and more reliant on them for experiencing the world. Shades of Reality

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Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here’s Why I’m So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream. So what can we expect to blow up next week, like Twitter, Foursquare, GroupMe and Beluga have in past years? Highlight is what I’m placing my bets on — and not for what it is today, but for what it could become. The new background location app got my attention at the beginning of February because it made it easy for me to find old friends and meet new ones without the friction of checking in. Relentless early adopter Robert Scoble has also taken a close look at each, and last weekend declared them the up-and-comers at SXSW this year. for you, Scoble). In an in-depth article for The Next Web last weekend, he sketched out three key reasons why these apps are special. All true, but there’s something bigger going on. Wait, what?

Smart Diagram Lite - Android Application on the Android market Smart Diagram brings easy diagram making to AndroidOrganize ideas and thoughts with clear diagrams. Simple & Easy, No painful learning. You can note down your flash ideas with flow chart now! Support Android 2.1 or above. Features:Create Shape with Gesture Rectangle, Circle and Diamond block can be easily drawn on the screen. Drag & Drop DeleteSimply press a shape then hold for a second, drag it to the rubbish bin and it will be deleted Manually Shape MovementShape can be easily navigated to other areas instantly. Easy SharingA finished map can be exported to jpg, png, svg or shared with your colleagues with email. Export to JPG, PNG, XML file Multi-language support on shape's text field MultiTouch Zooming User quote:"Perfect tool if you want to create flow charts on the road.

Dharma Seed Discover, Evaluate, and Monitor Your Professional Online Brand The Marketers Guide to Pinterest - Infographic Humans are extremely visual. We experience life visually and the role of photos, images and videos in our life is evidenced by the sheer quantity (250 million a day) of photos of friends, family and cute dogs that are uploaded to Facebook every day . I remember returning from the annual summer holidays and my father would invite all our friends over to view the photos and videos that he had taken on the yearly trip. The visual record of the trip was a vital part of the the sharing of the stories and experiences that had occurred in our family travels. Photos are highly engaging and the rise of Pinterest to become the 60th most visited site in the US last month provides more data to verify the attractiveness of beautiful images on this visual pinboard social media network site. So Who is Using Pinterest? Well according to the numbers it appears that women are the largest participants at 87%. Females 25-34 – 27%Females 35-44 – 29%Females 45-54 – 24% How Engaging is Pinterest? More Reading

Clear: Why This Simple To Do List App Has Everyone Talking Clear, the heavily-anticipated touch-based to-do list app, is launching in the iTunes App Store tonight. And by heavily anticipated, I mean this app was getting tech blog coverage based on demos, previews and teaser videos. Why the big draw for what’s typically been a rather ho-hum app category, the lowly to-do list? If your current to-do list app needs are complex, you may not be in the market for Clear. The app is unique in that it forgoes common navigational elements – like buttons positioned either at the bottom of the screen or towards the top – in favor of an all-gesture interface. Somewhere, Steve Jobs, no fan of buttons (obviously – look at the iPhone, there’s just the one) is smiling. That’s it. “There’s so much crap trying to get your attention in other to-do apps, you don’t even bother typing things in on the iPhone app version,” proclaims the app’s co-creator Phill Ryu, “with Clear it’s so fast it’s sometimes even fun.” But is the world ready for a buttonless app? “Yes!”

Grapholite - Online Diagramming and Flowcharting Tool Cédrick Moré AboutOne Makes it Easier to Manage Family Life 111 Web Apps to Rule Them All Our original roundup of 100 Web Apps to Rule Them All was published in May, 2011. Nearly a year later, we’re back with over a dozen new apps … and sadly with a few of our original favorites removed since they hit the deadpool. We’ve added the newest apps to the top of this roundup article, so you can quickly see our new favorites. Today, more than ever before, you can get much of your work done right from your browser. Whether you’re just getting started using web apps, or are a longtime fan of web apps and would like to find more exciting apps, you’ll be sure to find something interesting here. Enjoy! The Newest Web Apps to Rule Them All We’ve got a ton of great apps from our original roundup that you should still check out, but there’s tons more that have stood out over the past months as apps that are leading in their respective categories. ifttt ifttt Web apps have the bad habit of often not working together. Price: Free AppStorm Review: Use Ifttt to Make the Internet Work for You Kindle

Zotero Review On its website, Zotero is described "is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources." Even though it’s been out for a while, I somehow didn’t run into it until a few months ago. I’ve used it for a while and have switched over from using Endnote because I like it that much, below is my review. Here is my two sentence review of Zotero: If Evernote and Endnote had sex and made a baby, Zotero would be that baby. It would then outdo its parents in so many ways. If that is all you need to know, go ahead and try it out, it's free for crying out loud. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Overall, I’m quite happy with Zotero, and I find myself saving more papers than before and doing literature searches a lot faster and a lot more efficiently than before, which is a plus. What do you think of Zotero?

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