Category: Communications
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There are no “regular results” on Google anymore.
Google search results are always customised to some extent, a study by competing search engine ducksuckgo has reported. The study involved 131 volunteers conducting the same search from around the US and other countries and sending screenshots of their results. The users, who weren’t signed into Google, did Google searches for the three chosen politically-themed terms — “abortion,” “gun…
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Apple, patents and ideas
There’s been a lot of commentary about Samsung’s $1b bill for infringing Apple’s patents, and I’ve found the whole case rather depressing – the patent system seems to have been abused, with examples such as slide to unlock. But it’s the attitude behind the lawsuits that is perhaps most disappointing. In 1996 in a PBS documentary…
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How far can you take TV merchandising?
Following from my earlier post about a bloody bathmat, while I was looking for Dexter links I found the official “Showtime” website, the American network which premiers Dexter. You can buy merchandise for their TV shows, and I was intrigued by what merchandise they sold for a TV programme about a blood splatter analysis serial…
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Live data visuals – fashion and cities
I’ve seen two examples of impressive live data visuals today, from two very different systems for very different projects from The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and French fashion retailer Pimkie. Color Forecast By analysing live webcam footage from Paris, Milan and Antwerp, this site collects colour information and presents it as trends for days, weeks and…
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Donating to a political party
With the recent pay-per-view Prime Minister scandal and the publicity over Conservative Party “Donor Clubs“, I was interested what a donation to each of the main parties got you. I did class the Lib Dems as a main party, but they don’t tempt you with what your money buys so aren’t included below. So here’s what…
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Solar powered publication
An annual report which is only visible in sunlight.
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Opening titles – making the effort.
Good to see some real thought and imagination put into the opening titles on Game of Thrones: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7L2PVdrb_8[/youtube] As opposed to another recent TV favourite of mine, Fringe, is pretty dull: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-daL35AIQpw&hd=1[/youtube]
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How tech giants deal with dissent.
A few weeks ago I saw this peice on The Register about an Apple employee who was fired as a result of privately making derogatory comments about Apple’s brand and products on his Facebook wall. His undoing was that not all his “friends” were friends, and one printed off the comments and showed them to…