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Let me show you how French Coffee makes your brain happier (and other statistical lies)

August 15, 2011

Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum TEDTalk” based on user ratings. How do you rate it? “Jaw-dropping”? “Unconvincing”? Or just plain “Funny”? [download tedPad here] Share it with your [...]

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Google TV is coming (and we told you so)

March 18, 2010
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In April, 2006, I wrote: “Google is also making inroads into the set-top box business, hoping to bring television media straight into your television (whether it’s in your living room or your mobile phone).” Today, Google is finally announcing Google TV.

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7 Missing Features from the iPhone 3G

June 10, 2008

Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G puts to rest all the crazy rumors about new features it may include. Here are seven features I was waiting for but never materialized.

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Web 3.0 still not here, Web 2.0 remains king

November 19, 2007

According to this Google Trends chart, the expected arrival of Web3.0 is still far in the distance. It’s still a Web2.0 world. But sit tight… it’ll be here soon enough.

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5 Observations on the State of Digital Media

November 9, 2007

I wrote this as the introduction to a report I presented a year ago, after attending the Forbes MEET conference, and was surprised at how relevant it still was… so I decided to share it with my blog readers. 1. Universal access to media distribution. The traditional media outlets were used to managing an industry [...]

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Refocusing a photograph after taking it and other seemingly magical technologies

October 25, 2007

Arthur C. Clarke once said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Entire religions have been built around apparently magical events. In this PodTech video interview, Robert Scoble converses with Professor Marc Levoy of Stanford University about ongoing computational photography research that will simply blow your mind. It’s almost an hour long (and [...]

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