This post is an excerpt from ReadWriteWeb.
The company demonstrated today how its technology, which is currently in pre-production in China, lets a user put a sticker containing a tiny sensor and a year's worth of battery power, on the handle of a toothbrush, for example. The motion of the toothbrush sends a message to the Green Goose base station which then publishes a record of the activity online. A wide range of everyday activities can be tracked and the whole system was a big crowd pleaser at Jason Calacanis's Launch conference. Two members of the panel of investor judges put $100,000 into the startup on the spot while the company was still on stage. A third, Bill Warner, had already invested. "It's amazing and there's so much more you haven't even heard," he said about the company.
This post is an excerpt from Brief.
Arguably, the upheaval, activism and revolutions in of the last two months may serve to counter what has been a longstanding stereotype: youth are largely apolitical. Moreover, those that do participate in politics and activism online do so in shallow ways, the so-called "slacktivism." But recent findings from a longitudinal study of high school-age students challenges these notions, suggesting that youth who pursue their interests online are more likely to be engaged in civic issues.
This post is an excerpt from join.me – Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings.
Instant online meetings – ridiculously simple
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Get your people together, up to 250 of them, without actually getting them together. Just click share to download and run the app and get everybody on the same page, instantly. No need for a plane, train, projector or sandwich platter. Just gather at join.me.
So what is join.me exactly? It's an impromptu online meeting space that happens wherever, whenever. It's getting a second or third pair of eyes on your presentation from across the hall or across the continent. It's instant screen sharing with anyone or everyone to get stuff done, quickly.
It's join.me, the last two words in an invitation to collaborate, meet, train, demo or show-off.
free version
* screen sharing
* chat
* file transfer
* remote control
pro version
* personal link
* meeting scheduler
* meeting lock
* user management
* all the goodies in free
This post is an excerpt from Eye-Tracking & User-Testing Made Easy with YouEye.
User testing with eye-tracking software can be an expensive undertaking. But a start-up on stage today at LAUNCH may offer a way to simplify that process - both in terms of cost, testers, and technology.
This post is an excerpt from Fried Technology.
# Google Docs "Fake Book" template for which I can also take no credit. The original ppt was recommended to me by my friend Daliene Hendon. I uploaded it to my Google Docs and published it as a template. Thanks a bunch to whoever originally created it. I'd be glad to give you credit if you'll comment back to this post!
# My Fake Wall, a website that is meant for creating fake Facebook-like walls. See this one for Cinderella.
