Recommendations needed for cool new technologies!
Hi all-
I'm looking for ideas for 'what's new in technology'
meant to introduce cool or free new stuff that may have
some bearing. Please send anything interesting that
you've come across to me. It doesn't have to be VOS-
related necessarily - anything new and interesting
on the web or pertaining to digital media could fit.
Just to give you an idea of some stuff covered last
time, the main items were:
Turn your computer into a TV.
https://www.getmiro.com/about/what-is-miro.php
Send FREE messages to any Mobile Phone** No charge
for sending. Receiver may incur charges depending on
their carrier and plan.
http://gizmosms.com/
http://www.text4free.net/
openid:
http://openid.net/
Scribd is trying to be the youtube for documents
where anyone can upload PDFs, Word docs, etc. They
have created an alternative to the PDF format called
iPaper which loads faster than a PDF and has some
security features that PDF doesn't (e.g. you can't
download the documents).
http://www.scribd.com/ipaper
This is Flash demo that shows a page-turning effect
when you click the pages:
http://www.rubenswieringa.com/code/as3/flex/Book/
Here's another example of a page-turning effect:
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/intlepisode00jamearch
pretty cool sounding project to build a highly
scalable document storage system:
http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/
Cheap multi-touchscreen and digital whiteboard
(and 3d viewer):
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/245
1) The Sophie Project is an open-source multi-media
alternative to PDF for books.
Here's a short paper describing why an alternative
to HTML and PDF is needed for electronic books:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33485/Introduction-to-Sophie
Here are a few Quicktime videos of what an early
version of Sophie looks like:
http://www.futureofthebook.org/sophie/files/Making_a_Sophie_Book.mov
http://www.futureofthebook.org/sophie/files/sophie_beethoven_demo.mov
And here's the main site:
http://www.sophieproject.org/
Ted Nelson, the inventor of the term hypertext,
gave a presentation about transclusion or how
to include one document within another:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-832903136842952
Here are some visualization resources that the
publishers might be interested in:
* There are sites where you can upload a data set and
various visualization are generated and displayed:
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
http://www.data360.org/index.aspx
http://www.swivel.com/
Here's a short article about it:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/ibm-wants-many-eyes-on-visuali.html
There's a free program called Processing which
you can use to create visualizations. Here's a
gallery of images:
http://processing.org/exhibition/index.html
Here's a nice chart showing different visualizations
(roll your mouse over the squares).
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
- Jason
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