Collaboration

TwitOrFit is Twitter-meets-HotOrNot — Twit Or Fit launches today - effectively an idea borne of combining Twitter with a site like Hot Or Not, where you rate the appearance of people displayed. The project is a collaboration between UK RSS aggregator fav.or.it and collaboration startup huddle.net. It came about produced after Huddle marketing manager Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson was looking for entrants to a tongue in cheek beauty pageant for UK startups and fav.or.it founder Nic Halstead suggested a hot or not for Twitter. Here’s the idea: 1. you can only vote if you sign up yourself - and therefore put yourself forward to be... [Tags: appearance, badge system, beauty pageant, beta, collaboration]

Zumos: Innovative Textiles from Guatemala — High-quality and low-volume is the MO of textile product line, Zumos. In producing what they call “pocket products”: scarves, ties, tablerunners and document carriers that all feature a pocket, the line also stands behind quality production that offers fair income to the workers that create them. The line is a collaboration between Norwegian designer Heidi Strøm and a team of Maya Tz’utuhil weavers from San Juan La Laguna in Guatemala. ‘Zumos’ translates to strength, essence, vigor and vitality– qualities inherent in the women who make the products and also in all of the products. Fabulous! (more…)... [Tags: collaboration, heidi, high quality, quality production, san juan la laguna]

Collaboration Of Soloists Makes The Best Science — For the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the individual scientist toiling alone in his own laboratory or at his own desk?... [Tags: best science, collaboration, desk, investigators, scientist]

Microsoft’s Fashion Statement — In a move that somehow seems simultaneously inevitable and unneccesary, Microsoft has released a line of T-shirts–which, of course, it’s calling Softwear. They feature 1980s-era graphics with the old-school Microsoft logo which nobody has given any thought to in the past 15 years, were designed in collaboration with rapper Common, and show up in stores [...]... [Tags: 1980s, collaboration, fashion statement, microsoft, microsoft logo]

How We Collaborate Today — This is Kenneth Rayl’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit - your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my own: Collaboration has expanded since the introduction of the Bulletin Board System (BBS), back in the day when users dialed into a central computer hub to write messages to one other. This was no cake walk: long distant charges were common, and it took... [Tags: 2400bps, 56k modems, 8k, addictive nature, bulletin board system]

Jacqui promotes police handhelds — Wants more IT collaboration Home secretary Jacqui Smith has told Parliament that she wants police forces to introduce handheld devices quickly and to increase collaboration on IT.…... [Tags: collaboration, handheld devices, handhelds, home secretary, jacqui smith]

Live Drawing Competition: Watch, Learn, Participate — The Jen Bekman gallery is currently hosting the Thrilla in Manila, “a no holds barred draw-a-thon” between artists Jane Mount and Jason Polan to benefit 826NYC.  The live art experience began December 3rd and will run until 6pm December 6th.  In the spirit of community and collaboration, the press release invites the audience to “come into the gallery, join in the drawing, learn how to draw, be drawn yourself, or just root for your favorite artist,” opening up the creative process in a way that can’t be captured by simply looking at a static image on a wall.  ... [Tags: art experience, audience, blog, collaboration, creative process]

Tips for Reinforcing a Better Spelling in your Classroom — She's a graduate student at St. Peter's University, NJ and she's pursuing her Elementary Education Teaching Certification. Taran Fedor is excited to begin student teaching in January and is looking forward to enriching the lives of children. She had created a short-lived blog where she was collecting her thoughts and experiences in the school campus.She has declared herself a 'visual learner' and from her own experiences gives credit to the positive impact of use of technology in the classroom, how to start 'geeking out' kindergartners and young students. Taran writes in regards, "My kindergartner's teacher did not use any technology... [Tags: collaboration, dear readers, dictionary, e mail, education blog]

HTC buys US designers to bolster phone look — HTC today revealed that it will buy American design house One & Company for an undisclosed amount. The move makes permanent a collaboration that started with the Touch Diamond and should see One & Company become HTC's regular designer for its smartp...... [Tags: amp company, collaboration, designers, diamond, smartp]

Quote of the Day — "For me, shooting an action scene is no different from shooting a love scene. What really matters is what happens before the penetration and not after." -Wong Kar Wai The quote comes from a conversation in the current Interview between Wong and his longtime cinematographer, Christopher Doyle's Hangover. Wong and Doyle's Hangover made beautiful pictures together but seemed to have an artistic divorce some time during the interminable shoot of 2046; as Ashes of Time Redux, a restoration of their early collaboration, is released, they've been making public appearances recently, which makes me wonder if they might end up getting... [Tags: 2046, amy taubin, ashes of time, christopher doyle, chungking express]

Video: Good Ideas in 2009 in Digital — This morning’s Good Ideas Salon focused on Digital, exploring new ways in which individuals and brands are storing, sharing, and archiving their online narratives. The panel, moderated by Piers Fawkes (PSFK), included Claire Hyland  (Electric Artists), Johanna Beyenbach (Naked), Mike Arauz (Undercurrent), and Noah Brier (Barbarian Group) and touched upon a range of topics spanning from the evolution of virtual identities and collaboration to mobile technologies and the relivening of analog through digital. Our next event, Good Ideas in Social Media, will be held at Naked’s offices on Thursday, December 4th.  For details on the full series and tickets, click... [Tags: analog, brier, collaboration, electric artists, evolution]

Youtube to Create Global Orchestra Online — Youtube’s latest venture is a good example of new approaches to collaboration: an endeavor to engage musicians from all over the world and create the first global symphony orchestra in the process.  Although grand in scope, the concept’s success relies on individual participation.  To that end, musicians of all types are asked to record themselves playing any classical selection of their choosing, along with a piece written specifically for this project by composer Tan Dun entitled “The Internet Symphony”.  All videos of the original composition will then be rolled into one collective performance to generate a global event. Contributors are... [Tags: added incentive, carnegie hall, collaboration, collective performance, composition]

Pownce is dead. So what. Micromessaging has always been about the next phase beyond email, and oh so not about competition between micromessaging vendors. Twitter is the Kleenex of the space and has survived its most difficult phase. There is no competition for Twitter, not even close. FriendFeed is the reason Twitter has won. It’s the toolkit for providing innovation around Twitter. It has always been the reason why micromessaging could be taken to the next level, to absorb and extend email. FriendFeed is the most important third party app to emerge in the platform space Twitter created to garner... [Tags: aggregate, ccs, collaboration, discovery engine, dominant market share]

Intel, Hitachi to Develop Solid-State Drives — The first products from the collaboration are expected to be available in early 2010.... [Tags: collaboration, first products, hitachi, intel, solid state]

Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army — fortapocalypse writes "Duke University in collaboration with Virtual Heroes (who created America's Army) has produced a game called Virtual Peace, the intention of which is to help the gamer develop disaster relief and conflict resolution skills. Virtual Peace also is the winner of the HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition according to an article published by the university."Read more of this story at Slashdot.... [Tags: army, collaboration, conflict resolution skills, disaster relief, duke university]

A Look at IBM's Blue Spruce Web Browser Platform — IBM recently showed eWEEK a demonstration of Blue Spruce, the company's project for enabling collaboration via AJAX-based mashups, including streaming audio and video. The Blue Spruce technology is what you'd get if you rolled IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte and IBM enterprise mashups into one platform to let multiple users collaborate through a Web browser at the same time. See the specifications in this presentation from IBM's Emerging Internet Technologies division. - ...... [Tags: ajax, blue spruce, collaboration, demonstration, ibm lotus sametime]

Video: Good Ideas in 2009 in Collaboration — Last Tuesday, we took our Good Idea Salon to Naked’s office space, where a packed audience sat in on our panel discussion about collaboration. Moderated by Colin Nagy (Attention/PSFK), the panel discussed innovations in how businesses, organizations and ordinary people are working together.  The panel included Amit Gupta (Jelly/Photojojo), Andrew Hoppin (NASA), John Geraci (Outside.In/DIYCity), and Matthew Stinchcomb (Etsy). Tomorrow’s panel on Digital is sold out, but we still have tickets available for our discussions on Social Media (12/4) and Entertainment (12/11). For details on the full series and tickets visit here: www.psfk.com/good-idea-salons © Jeff Squires for PSFK, 2008. |... [Tags: amit gupta, audience, collaboration, etsy, innovations]

Facebook Connect Service Holds Opportunities for SMBs — Social networking powerhouse Facebook plans to expand Connect, a service that enables connections between Facebook profiles and other Web sites. This messaging and collaboration development presents opportunities for SMBs negotiating an entry into the world of social networking. - Social networking behemoth Facebook is making an effort to become the epicenter of social media interconnectivity. The New York Times reports that popular news aggregator Digg and video streaming hub Hulu, among others, will add the Connect feature to their Web sites. Kyung Han, a managing pa...... [Tags: behemoth, collaboration, digg, epicenter, facebook]

Support “Social Media & PR Across Asia” Wiki For The 2008 Edublog Awards — I’d like to join Prof. Michael Netzley and Mark to echo my support for Amelia’s nomination of the Social Media & PR Across Asia wiki for the 2008 Edublog Awards. It’s submitted for the Best Educational Wiki I think our wiki is deserving of a nomination (and a win) because it is the epitome of crowdsourcing and collaboration, the very things that inspired wikis. It’s been maintained for over a year by over 100 students, but not by their efforts alone. We’ve reached out to the prominent figures all over Asia to get their input and integrate it into a... [Tags: amp, asia, canada, china, collaboration]