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Top tips for a great video meeting
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Jimmy Wales to Hollywood: You’re Doomed (And Not Because of Piracy)
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Jimmy Wales has a message for Hollywood: You’re doomed, it won’t be piracy that kills you, and nobody will care. Wales, delivering a keynote address at the Internet Society’s INET convention in Geneva, predicted that Hollywood will likely share the same fate as Encyclopedia Brittanica, which shut down its print operation this year after selling just...
LaCie's new 100MB/s NAS is 2big, resists that second scone (video)
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Gallic storage outfit LaCie is nonchalantly unveiling its 2big double-bay NAS that's purportedly capable of pumping data around your network at 100MB/s. Designed for small businesses, it'll remind any passers by of HAL or GLaDOS, depending on their age. Sporting a 2GHz processor and the company's NAS OS2, it'll...
How Steve Jobs came to play FDR in a 1984 Apple short film
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In 1984, Steve Jobs played FDR in an Apple short film intended to follow its famous Super Bowl commercial that debuted the same year. The short film was called 1944 and was designed to inspire the Apple workforce to beat IBM. We saw the full 9-minute clip last week,...
TED 2012: Ridley Scott Envisions the TED Talk of the Future
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LONG BEACH, Calif. — Much like WIRED, the TED conference is about looking into the possibilities of the future. The speakers invited are all working on projects that could shape and change the very nature of what our world will look like in the decades that follow their...
Hand Me The Pliers
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When I first heard the news of Peter Bergman’s death, it came in the relatively old fashioned form of an email from my brother. He’d seen a tweet about it, and figured I’d heard already. Peter was one of four who made up the Firesign Theatre, and suddenly there would...
Jimmy Wales Says Irrelevance, Not Piracy, Will Doom Hollywood
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Jimmy Wales, who has become a bit of a thorn in the side of Hollywood of late, has given a speech in which he predicts that Hollywood is doomed, but not because of any threat from "piracy," but from the fact that technology and innovation means that the old infrastructure...
Behold the brilliance that is The Next Web Conference in this 3-minute film
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While cruising through Shelby.tv today (the New York-born product that WON The Next Web Conference last week in Amsterdam), I came across this brilliant short film of the 2012 TNW conference produced by Marjolijn Kamphuis, the co-founder and CEO at Foodzy and the Editor-in-Chief of Dutch Cowgirls. While it’s not been a week since the big...
Nikon teases D800's video power with short film
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With the ability to record 1080p video at 30 frames per second and output uncompressed HDMI, the Nikon D800 is a camera made for videographers. And to prove it, Nikon has teamed up with photographer and videographer Sandro Miller to create the short film Joy Ride, an impressive looking...
Watch this 1950s short film explain the first accurate atomic clock
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We've had atomic clocks for so long that we take them for granted, putting them into preamps and looking to replace them with even more accurate nuclear versions. Fifty years ago, though, the first accurate atomic clock was only a few years old, and the UK's National Physical Library...
Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple-produced short film
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Steve Jobs may not have had the chance to take on the role of Willy Wonka like he wanted, but it turns out that he did manage to grab another surprising role — former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1984 Apple produced a short film called 1944 in...
'Akira' creator Katsuhiro Otomo exhibits his life's work
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The man behind the seminal work in Japanimation is back with a 3,000-piece exhibition of original artwork, a new short film, and plans for a new manga series. In Japan, manga and anime are seemingly everywhere and all-encompassing — something grown men and women indulge in without a second...
Pentagram celebrates its 40th anniversary with this charming motion graphic
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Pentagram has left a monumental impact on the world of design. The massive firm, who’s work and offices are spread throughout the world, houses the like of Paula Scher, and touts every big-shot client in the book: Microsoft, Saks Fifth Avenue, NY’s Grand Central Station, GE, TIME and more. Clearly,...
Thinking cities: The challenges of urbanization in a networked society [Video]
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“The biggest impact that humans have had on the planet, has happened in the past 200 years, beginning with the industrial revolution. From that, we have been urbanizing at an exponential rate.” - Geoffrey West, physicist, distinguished professor, Santa Fe Institute. Ericsson’s latest Networked Society short film deals with one...
Video: The Secret Life of NPR's Terry Gross
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Ever wonder what Terry Gross does after she wraps up her “Fresh Air” show on NPR and ever so sincerely thanks one of her guests? The bust-a-gut funny storyteller Mike Birbiglia let his imagination run wild, and got Gross to play along. He made the short film below for the...
Watch this: 'No Robots', a short film by Yung-Han Chang
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This beautiful animated short made the rounds about a month ago, but we got to thinking about it again, and thought we'd share. The film is called No Robots, and it's directed by Yung-Han Chang and Kimberly Knoll, students at San Jose State University. Makes you think, doesn't it?...
Is “Blinky” the horribly reality of a robotic future?
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Although Hollywood films warn of sentient artificial intelligence looking to overthrow and exterminate its human creators, they’re mostly a reason for their big-name stars to jump through the air in slow-motion while dual-wielding rocket-propelled grenade launchers while a hovership explodes behind them. Blinky, on the other hand, paints a...
Last remaining Kodachrome film developer stars in short documentary
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You may or may not know this, but there is only one remaining developer of Kodachrome, the iconic but increasingly irrelevant camera film. That establishment is Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas, and they've gotten a fair amount of press and attention for being the last purveyors of a quickly...
Touchy is a wearable camera that makes you touch to see
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Hong Kong-based artist Eric Siu has created a wearable camera that blinds a user until they're touched by someone else. Touchy has two giant shutters that remain closed without human contact; once the helmet's sensors detect touch, the shutters spring open, Siu's eyes are illuminated, and the blindness is...
Play this: 'Soul Searchin''
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You know the expression "to pick one's brain"? That's precisely what gets Benjamin (the little pink guy you see above) into trouble. You control Benjamin in Soul Searchin', a delightful platformer that sees you play with scale to get through to the end. Like the short film classic Powers...
One Cent Friends: Another Attempt To Quantify Social Media's Value
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We've talked before about services that attempt to measure someone's social media "influence" and the inherent silliness of the concept. Although the numerical values assigned by services like Klout are, at best, weak indicators of a person's actual influence, it's not surprising that people are trying to make it work....
The 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
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Catch up on the stories people were clicking, reading, sharing, Tweeting, Facebooking, Pinning, and more--from the Fast Company network.This week's stories ranged from superficial networking tips, to innovative "sock" weaves used in designing Nike’s newest shoes, to a powerful short film on how the proliferation of tech in cities will...
John Baldessari’s Tech Talk
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John Baldessari is the subject of a new short film by Todd Coles, one in a series of shorts presented by Nowness in which an artist is asked a question about technology. Standing outdoors as “all the private jets” carrying “captains of industry” land at the nearby Santa Monica Airport,...
Micropayment-Enabling Dynamo Player Gets Beta Version Going
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Dynamo Player, which was first announced at SXSW this year and will also be demoed at the New York Video Meetup next week, is currently in active beta with a small group of users using the player to distribute their films — and get a few bucks back. Created by...
I liked a YouTube video -- SWITCH. A short film by Tyson Hesse http://youtu.be/a6GEEi67atc?a
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Betting On The Oscars? Google Has A Super Simple Docs Template To Use.
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Tonight is the 82nd annual Academy Awards. Some people watch the show for the movies. Some watch it for the glamor. And some, watch it to gamble. And Google is making that easier than ever. While the show is almost always way too long, one way to get into it...
Wow, Sabahan director Chris Chong's Black Box Short film is being screened at the Smithsonian Institute! http://twurl.nl/vwmrvi #impressed
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Wow, Sabahan director Chris Chong's Black Box Short film is being screened at the Smithsonian Institute! http://twurl.nl/vwmrvi #impressed
‘Logorama’
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Winner of the Oscar for Best Short Film. If you love profanity, ultra violence, and logos, you’re going to enjoy this as much as I did. (Via Kottke.) ★ ...
You KNOW you wanna see this. Red Dead Short film coming.
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