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In this page I share some interesting articles I find from time to time. If you know about any other interesting feeds please let me know!

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  • Rechargeable LED Bulb
    Source: OhGizmo!

    Rechargeable LED Bulb (Images courtesy Gizmag)
    By Andrew Liszewski

    Shown at IFA, a Chinese company called Magic Bulb has created an LED bulb that not only uses just 4 watts of power to produce the equivalent amount of light as a 50W bulb, but it also features a built-in rechargeable battery that will keep the light running for an additional 3 hours should the power go out. And if the power outage is the result of an emergency requiring you to ‘escape’ your home or office, the bulb can be unscrewed and the neck extended to create a handheld flashlight. If and when the bulb is available in your part of the world it’s expected to sell for somewhere between $30-40, and it will be rated with a lifespan of around 20,000 hours.

    [ Gizmag - The rechargeable LED lightglobe ]

  • Energizer's New Inductive Charger Is the First To Use the Qi Standard [Charging]
    Source: Gizmodo
    Inductive chargers have been kicking around for a while now, but Energizer's new charging platter is the first to utilize Qi technology—the new universal standard for inductive charging. That's one small step closer to total freedom from cables. More »


  • Skype 5.0 Windows Beta Has 10-Way Video Calling! [Skype]
    Source: Gizmodo
    Skype's latest Windows-only 5.0 beta 2 doubles their five-way video calling to ten. TEN. How does ten-way video calling look? Like this. If you add two. We could only get eight, and four of them was me. More »


  • Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom
    Source: GigaOM

    I wrote recently about Paper.li, a service from a Swiss company called Small Rivers, which pulls in your Twitter stream and extracts any links shared by those you follow, then displays those links in a newspaper-style format. (The company was recently funded by Kima Ventures, whose co-founder bought the French newspaper Le Monde.) More and more Twitter users I follow seem to be making use of the service to construct their own personalized newspapers. Here are a few of the ones I have come across (if you’re interested, my Paper.li is here):

    You can easily create Paper.li newspapers around Twitter lists, such as Robert Scoble’s list of influential technology types (full disclosure: I am on this list) and Spigit VP Hutch Carpenter’s Innovation list. You can create Twitter-stream newspapers from specific hashtags as well, such as #climate or #autism. There are also a few celebrities using Paper.li to create papers from their streams, including British actor and author Stephen Fry, comedian Eddie Izzard and former pop superstar Boy George.

    The service — which is still in alpha, but says it plans to launch a beta soon — is much like the “Daily Me” concept (a term coined by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte) that many services have tried to deliver. Many of these services try to learn from articles you say you like, in the same way that music services such as Pandora try to learn from your behavior. (There’s another Twitter-based service called Twitter Times that takes a newspaper-style approach.) What’s interesting about using Twitter for such a service is that you don’t have to explicitly say which articles you like, or wait for the software to learn what you’re interested in; you choose the people you follow and those people choose the links they want to share, and that constitutes your newspaper.

    In many ways, this is a natural extension of the idea that if the news is important “it will find me.” In other words, if something is important or interesting, it will eventually make its way to you through your social network, by being shared on Twitter or Facebook or some other service. This is an almost complete inversion of the way media traditionally works, where editors decide what is important, then publish it for readers. In that sense, it’s “demand” media rather than “supply” media, or pull rather than push.

    Paper.li adds value to Twitter in such an obvious way that it’s surprising Twitter didn’t think of it (although it could always try to acquire the company). It will be interesting to see whether the Swiss service — or any other similar offering — decides to branch out from Twitter and incorporate content that comes from Facebook “likes” and other implementations of the Facebook open graph protocol. There are currently several sites that aggregate that kind of thing, including LikeButton.me and It’s Trending.

    Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d): What We Can Learn From the Guardian’s Open Platform

    Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr user George Kelly

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  • Brazil Using Smartphones For Planning the Future
    Source: Slashdot
    shafiur writes "Brazil has bought 150,000 LG smartphones and has embarked on the world's first fully digital national census. Can they succeed when the US recently failed to go digital? The Brazilians say that the digital census has several advantages over paper and pen methods. They say that the data is more accurate since GPS data will pinpoint the exact location of a household. The GPS data is cross-referenced with satellite images to ensure that responses are correctly geo-tagged. The recently begun census will underpin future publicy-making decisions."

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