In 2011, Facebook launched its video calling services using Skype as its technology partner which allows one to one calling using a Skype Rest API. Now Facebook has chosen Canadian users to beta test a new mobile feature with VOIP (voice over internet protocol) that enables free calls over a wireless network rather than the costly mobile data plans. Facebook’s
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Continuing our map theme. Brandon Martin-Anderson (who works with cartography, multimodal trip planning, and computational urban planning at the MIT Media Lab) developed what he calls the Census Dotmap which is a map of every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses. The map has 341,817,095 dots – one for each person. Wow. What a lot of
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Welcome to 2013. I am a little slow off the mark this year, but did want to share this new feature from Google Maps. Think of your maps but in the 8 bit frameset. Backwards compatible with NES as well. OK – it might be a little of a stretch, but I found it amusing. Mashing 2012 with 1982. Zinga.
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You know how at the 30th or 31st of each month you flip the page in your calendar? Well that is what the Mayan calendar is about. The calendar ends today. Turn it over and it starts again. So man up princes and princesses. It aint over and I see no fat lady in sight. by dalefj89. Browse more
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Anonymous is targeting the Westboro Baptist Church. The new way of fighting evil in the digital realm. Westboro Baptist Church announced plan to protest funerals in Newtown, site of the deadly shooting last week. “After church leaders announce plans to protest at site of school massacre, Anonymous posts the personal information for dozens of members of the extremist group,
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Popular Science teamed up with Google to index and archive all of their past issues back to 1872 – all 1523 issues. Because of this and the ability to search for scanned words in Google Books, you can now search for words in the magazine. Popular Science went a step further. They created a tool with Pitch Interactive to search
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From Hubspot comes some unsurprising, but now substantiated info on rich email: Any experienced email marketer knows that crafting the perfect marketing email is somewhat of an art form. Not only do you have to nail copywriting, messaging, personalization, and proper segmentation and targeting — but you also have to worry about how that email actually looks. On both desktops
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Back in 1970, Popular Science predicted a couple of things of interest to today. One is that we will have video chat. It took a while for Skype to bring this to the masses, but is part of everyday now. The other? Well I do get my paper in a digital format, just not in the way they predicted.
It’s no secret that when it comes to the Internet, Canadians pay higher prices for worse services than most countries in the industrialized world. This is largely because a handful of Big Telecom companies control upwards of 94% of the Internet service market in Canada, meaning that Canadians don’t have much real choice. Big Telecom’s grip on Canadian communications needs
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