day on the job For Tout director of community and content Gardner Loulan, a normal day can mean shooting music videos, providing customer service, and rushing off to show NFL players how to use the startup’s micro-video service.
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The Experiment Fund, a seed-stage investment fund that is backed by New Enterprise Associates, is opening its doors at Harvard. Its goal is to support students’ ventures.
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According to Fedscoop, he will be leaving the White House imminently, with no word on what he’ll be doing next.
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That score in the big orange box may not be telling you exactly what you think it is. Klout is measuring influence, but not in the way that seems most obvious. And to understand the company, you have to understand exactly what business it’s in.
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Space Adventures has a new mission: Slinging rich travelers around the moon. With one more passenger, the trips could be just four years away.
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In Dusseldorf, Germany, heavy crosswinds often force pilots to make some truly creative final approaches. A video compilation shows what passengers on the incoming planes would probably rather not see.
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While the eyes of Hollywood are focused on George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and films like “The Artist” and “The Descendants,’ let’s not forget the notable achievements of the visual effects Academy Award nominees, many of whom have won Oscars in the past.
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With its Startup World competition, The Next Web is hoping to become a player in unearthing future Mark Zuckerbergs. But the odds of finding another Google, Twitter, or Zynga in a competition are pretty small.
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Bartholomaus Traubeck has created a record player that is capable of reading a tree’s year rings and translating them into piano music. Every tree generates different melodies.
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After more than two years of accepting user-submitted 15-second clips, the creators of the crowdsourced–and Lucas approved–fan-made film have at long last released their full version.
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The Discovery Channel has given the thumbs-up to a new show to be executive produced by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. In a tweet this morning, Savage called the show his and Hyneman’s “new sooper secret project.”
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With Flora, the open-source hardware designers at Adafruit Industries have come up with an extensible wearable electronics platform that could make it simple to link together hundreds and hundreds of LEDs.
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Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are on a national tour showcasing their take on science, sharing the lessons they’ve learned and both entertaining and educating as they go. It’s a lot of fun.
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Starting February 2, anyone can enter a 15-minute film into YouTube’s Your Film Festival. Ultimately, one winner will get a half million dollars and the chance to work with famed movie director Ridley Scott on their next story.
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Social media has been buzzing about the Stop Online Piracy Act for days, but today, talk about the bill exploded on Twitter and elsewhere. Mentions were up by more than 3,300 percent.
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Just because they blacked out their Web sites for the day doesn’t mean the people who run publications like Reddit, Boing Boing, PostSecret, and others were able to sit back and relax today. In fact, most of them were busier than ever.
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The Supremes say Congress can force public-domain works back into copyright, in consideration to the Berne Convention treaty.
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In a Facebook post and his first tweet in nearly three years, Zuck made one thing clear: He doesn’t like either SOPA or PIPA and wants them defeated.
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U.S. Chief Technical Officer Aneesh Chopra, Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor, and Zach Sims of Code Academy are joining forces to create new ways to help young people–mainly from disadvantaged backgrounds–find pathways into technology.
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Chief Hollywood lobbyist Chris Dodd, a former U.S. Senator, railed against tomorrow’s planned Web blackouts/copyright-law protests.
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The immensely popular free encyclopedia will be inaccessible all day Wednesday in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. But with a little clever usage of Google’s cache, you should still be able to get to any Wikipedia page you want.
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Mashup artists from around the world will be competing for a $5,000 first prize in Getty’s Mishmash competition. Entrants will have legal access to some of the best photography, videos, and music from a rich selection of content archives.
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A lot of people are fiercely committed to defeating the Stop Online Piracy Act. One way they’re expressing their displeasure with the bipartisan bill is adding antilegislation banners to their Twitter profile images.
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Although the Wikimedia Foundation has yet to make a formal decision, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has written that he’s “in favor” of joining Reddit and other Web sites in shutting down on Wednesday to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. A decision should be made by Tuesday.
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The new Academy for Software Engineering will train high schoolers in one of the most in-demand jobs in the technology world. But students will also get a rigorous academic education.
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The partnership could offer new ways to measure what Facebook users are thinking about the upcoming presidential election.
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In this infographic, IBM demonstrates how the efficiency of data storage is progressing rapidly.
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A new discovery by Big Blue researchers suggests that it’s possible to store a bit of information in as little as 12 magnetic atoms. Today’s disk drives require a million atoms to store a bit.
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The news aggregator says it will shut down for 12 hours on January 18 in protest of legislation currently being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives that it says would seriously endanger freedom of expression on the Internet.
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At a rousing CES press conference, the German luxury car maker touted its vision of a connected car future, as well as a near-”communist” notion of car-sharing. The company also talked about autonomous cars as a way to promote safe transport.
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At a rousing CES press conference, the German luxury car maker touted its vision of a connected car future, as well as a near-”communist” notion of car-sharing. The company also talked about autonomous cars as a way to promote safe transport.
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At CES, the German automaker is talking about the telematics technology it plans to put in its luxury cars, “a cloud-based solution” that offers smartphone integration.
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Called the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, the bounty will be won by the first team that creates a mobile platform capable of most accurately diagnosing a group of 15 diseases across 30 patients in three days.
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Microsoft says it is pursuing a hardware-only approach for the Kinect platform. But some open-source advocates are wondering if the new system will reject open-source Kinect drivers.
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Walt Thompson took 2,600 photographs as he made a touching and very personal stop-motion video meant to inspire his beloved to marry him. The only question is, how many bricks did it take?
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At CES, the consumer electronics giant says MySpace TV will make it possible for friends to share TV watching experiences in real time. But does anyone care?
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At CES, the camera maker announced its new mirrorless digital camera, the X-Pro1, which it’s aiming at pros like wedding and portrait photographers.
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The company stakes out its leadership claim with new 80-inch 3D TVs, giant screens that allow companies to collaborate, and new smart services.
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The new smart board lets users collaborate and share information between themselves. It is integrated with Microsoft Windows 7 and Office.
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Some aircraft engineers in Australia are concerned about small cracks that have appeared on the wing ribs of some Airbus A380 airplanes, a report says. They’re calling for the whole fleet to be grounded, but Airbus says the cracks are harmless.
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Well, the 2011 racing season is done, and the clock just struck 2012 everywhere. Well, everywhere except NASCAR land, where they continues to work on their 1960s inventions and machines, proudly being as ungreen and unclean as the come.
First 2011: The only hilight of the year is Tony Stewart winning the cup. Let’s just say that “anyone except boring Jimmy Johnson” is a plus, however Stewarts team runs the same cars and engines as Johnson’s Hendrick team, and Hendrick cars made up the vast majority of the players in the chase. No surprises then! 2011 also goes down as a year with continued weak attendance, and the media getting excited when the TV ratings were as good as the previous year – which was way off peak anyway. The first 26 races leading up the chase as safe as houses cruises for the top teams, as they generally just work to “finish well” each time and cruise into the championship round, and the start and park crew out back assures us plenty of open space on pit road by the first caution, as upwards to half a dozen of them retire with various mystery ailments.
Now 2012: Hold onto your hats, NASCAR is jumping forward into the 21st century for technology. No, not really. They are jumping forward to the 70s, dumping the carburators that have fueled the cars for years and replacing them with high tech, high end throttle body fuel injection. Yup, the same concept that was in the 1976 Cadillac Seville is now the leading, bleeding edge of NASCAR. Oh my! Talk about a leap forward. Teams are closing down, with Rousch down a team, Red Bull pulling the plug on both of their cars, and even some of the start and parkers are calling it a day. At this point, even Jayski’s enthusiastic pro-NASCAR chart only shows about 32-34 full time teams, and many of them have big question marks in the sponsorship and driver areas.
One of the announcements for 2012 that caught my eye is that Dover raceway is expanding seat width to make fans more comfortable. Well, at least, that is the story they are working with. Actually, Dover is one of many tracks in the NASCAR family that expanded rapidly as the series grew, and kept adding seats to their venue. But some less than spectacular races, the slowing economy, and the downturn in the fortunes of NASCAR has meant they have been hiding significant numbers of seats under banners to try to make things look fuller, and still they couldn’t sell the place out. The place can seat a mind numbing 140,000, and with announced attendance at about 82,000 for each race this year, the place has looked empty. The “widening of seats” addresses that by dropping the available seat count down to 113,000. Cover a couple of sections over with ad tarps, and they could get back to a “full house” scenerio by only putting a few more people in the place. NASCAR could use to run at some venues that look full, because running in front of half empty grand stands isn’t doing the image any good.
Further, the racing in 2011 for the most part wasn’t that good. The two car tag team drafting at the large tracks is a joke, it is truly sad to think that having the fastest race car still makes you 10 mph slower than a tandem team. The first 26 races featuring some truly uninspired point driving, with teams less worried about the win, and more worried about getting the proper precentage of points out of the weekend of the make the chase. They play it so safe now that you can DVR the race, skip the first 475 miles, and just watch the last few minutes and get the whole story. In the case, things were a little heated up, but only another manipulation of the point system and chase system conspired to make it close. Tony Stewart won half of the chase races, there is no reason it should have been close.
Looking forward to 2012, it looks like more of the same for NASCAR. They will diddle with the rules trying to limit the tandem drafting, they will try fuel injection, and they will attempt to smile and say “43 is only a number” when they get to the 5th or 6th race of the season and have only 39 entries – which will grow to 43 entries when the “big” teams roll out specials to fill the grid for a few laps.
Try to enjoy NASCAR 2012 – I prefer it on a video game myself!
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From the rise of 3D printing to the increased personalization of mobile news aggregators to the detection of ripples in the fabric of space-time, 2012 could be a very big year for culture.
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For decades, the defense group has let you follow the Christmas Eve travels of the jolly old elf. These days, technology is playing a bigger role than ever.
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The publisher of the popular online service unilaterally imposed a no-lawsuit clause in its terms of service. Now–oh, the irony–it is facing a lawsuit alleging unfair business practices.
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The NFL says that its championship game, as well as two playoff games and the Pro Bowl, will be streamed live for the first time. The games will also be available on Verizon mobile devices.
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We don’t know much about what the global toy brand will be doing.
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After two days on the market, the social gaming giant has seen its stock fall around 10 percent. And some analysts expect that there’s quite a bit of floor below today’s closing.
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As part of its annual list of 5-year predictions, Big Blue is suggesting that, among other things, people will be able to utilize computing technology to figure out some of what others are thinking. Also, we’ll never need passwords again.
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On Thursday, says The New York Times, Apple will let its app reviewers go on an eight-day holiday break. That means anyone wanting to get something new into the App Store in time for the holidays had better think about pulling an all-nighter.
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The singer reaches seven figures on Google’s social network faster than anyone. But maybe that’s only because Lady Gaga hasn’t joined the service. And where’s Justin Bieber?
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