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DLD 2012 – Demo: Aurasma – The Future Of Augmented Reality

It looks like we are having HP and Autonomy demo Aurasma at our events in Barcelona….See the future of AR at our 2 events
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By: DLDconference
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2bR8-_3LY

Matt Mills, Introduced by: David Kirkpatrick

Why measuring Data across mobile Networks…

This video is great highlighting the importance of data and measuring that data from marketing and contextualization purposes.
In the US alone
- 28,000 MMS (multimedia messages) or picture messages get sent every second
- Average User has 736 pieces of data collected every day
- Service providers retain all this data for up to 84 months

Based on the MMS you can build information on the
- Sending User and recepient
- Data packages on both sides
- Location and type of communication across the parties
- Relationship between the 2 parties based on Frequency
all this from the Metada associated with MMS

Check it out.

By: Michael Rigley
Source: http://vimeo.com/nonomy

Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.

BFA Thesis
CCA Graphic Design

A Mobile Expense App designed for me and not the finance department

I cannot tell you the dread with which I used to sit down with a pile of scrappy bits of paper, well those that I could find, along with the sellotape and a pile of recycled paper to stick the first pile onto. Oh joy, “expense night”! More often than not I’d leave the damned things as long as possible and I’d inevitably lose some or in some cases they’d actually have faded beyond recognition. Great for the company, not so good for my bank account.

A few months ago, Stefan, the CEO charged into the office evangelizing about this great mobile app he’d been trying out -“Expensify” (www.expensify.com) – and that we were all missing out.

Now, Simon, our CFO, was naturally completely uptight (sorry, Simon) about the impact that it might have on extra workload for our finance team and the reliability of our records going forward. In fact he found that the system would not only meet the current requirements but would also save both traveling employees, and the finance team, significant amounts of time. He therefore gave the process a good kick and piled more of us onto the bandwagon.

I have to say that it is a great app that allows me to take a photo of the receipt as soon as I get it, tag it according to pre-set policy guidelines that Simon has set. I can submit it directly from my phone but I tend to do a quick review sitting at my laptop so that I can do a last reality check. Also, I can also check the status of all my submitted expense reports at any time

And if I do end up at home with a pocketful of receipts that I have managed to miss then Expensify is so easy that I have been known to get my 11 year old to give me a hand. Luckily she is young enough not to know the child labour laws and happily uploads all of the expenses, properly dated and tagged etc.

Well worth the investment and it’s a huge hit with our team… and my bank manager.

The Future is Kinect!

We’ll be publishing something shortly on the Kinect, but here, just a glimpse into the Microsoft Labs and what they are working on with Kinect….

Awesome! Check it out

Scary things happening to the Web as we know it

Spain today approved the “Sustainable Economy Law” (wtf) aka the Sinde Law, which is basically a Website blocking Law. This is basically a SOPA-Style Anti-Piracy Law for Shutting down Websites.

SOPA (coined Stop Online Piracy Act) has been creating a lot of uproar in the community. Basically the name is misleading as the Act allows Government officials to shut down websites. There is a really lengthy, but great overview and series of interviews on this topic here. Here a great video highlighting PROTECT IP and SOPA.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

The controversy around this is really that the internet and digerati is really going up against Capitol Hill and is successful at doing so. GoDaddy, a web hosting service, which originally was pro SOPA lost over 72,354 accounts in a week. As a result they now oppose it! One of the reasons for supporting it in the first place and then the change of heart might be due to the fact that they are in the middle of being acquired by Private Equity Funds, KKR and Silver Lake, for some $2.3B

Even now a key conservative representative endorsing SOPA on capital has started to express concerns about how SOPA will affect freedom of speech.

Adding fuel to the fire, just today Wikileaks shared cables that the US threatened Spain to enact this law if it wasn’t passed. The Spanish newspaper El Pais wrote an article to the same extent referring to the US ambassador to Spain.

Robert Tercek summarized this well “Big media is willing to dismantle the Internet in order to protect their right to extract profit from sunset industries. Big Media is outspending Silicon Valley 4 to 1 when it comes to buying Congressional support. Silicon Valley has a lot more to lose if this measure passes.”

How is this whole activity any different to what the same people always critique of the “great firewall” in China or in the Middle East.

All I can say is all of this is only going to stiffle Innovation and I implore you to watch this video. A MUST!
Fostering Innovation: Lawrence Lessig; Government do No harm to the Internet