Web curation for November 16th 2009 through November 17th 2009
Sites that I found interesting for November 16th 2009 through November 17th 2009:
- Want to Build Your Own Super Accurate GPS? – Tomoji Takasu and Akio Yasuda of Tokyo University developed an inexpensive, open source RTK GPS that runs on a beagle board, and better yet, they've posted instructions so you can do the same.
- Google to Give "Complete Overview" of Chrome OS on Thursday – Apparently Google will be giving some technical background, as well as showing some demos of the OS in action.
- Google to Give "Complete Overview" of Chrome OS on Thursday –
- From Twitter – via @missrogueChris Brogan – Keynote – Web 2.0 Expo New York '09 – http://tinyurl.com/yhm4ss8 (via @vascellari) #w2e
- From Twitter – via @cltom very cool RT @google Introducing new Labs feature Google Image Swirl which clusters together similar images into groups http://bit.ly/HOtG8
- Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10.1 Pre-Release – Still pre-release but you might want to check it out
- From Twitter – Adobe Flash 10.1 is out and is supposed to introduce hardware acceleration of h.264. This is good news.
- Introducing MadeforMediaCenter – The app store for Windows Media Center – Made for Media Center is an app store for Windows Media Center which aims to brings together the fantastic selection 3rd party Windows Media Center applications and make them available directly in the 10 foot UI.
- From Twitter – via @IBMResearch What can you with with a microscopically small drop of blood? Check out this video to see what IBM scientists can do – http://bit.ly/3J8d4n
- "Unfriend" is Oxford’s Word of the Year – Unfriend, a verb that means “to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook” is the New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2009.
- From Twitter – via @tomguarriello When Harvard Business School starts touting social media, you know something's up. http //bit.ly/1LGCwm
- From Twitter – Not surprised RT @geektonic USPS announces $3.8B loss, plans to end Sat. delivery. Blames move to electronic media http //j.mp/kZ7Wt
- From Twitter – RT @thurrott PDC tidbit Thanks to hyperthreading improvements in Win7, Windows Media Encoder 9 is 23 % faster vs. Vista with SP1
