Google Translate with Conversation Mode (by GoogleMobile)
The sci-fi future really is here now. Between Siri on the iPhone and Translate on Android phones, speech recognition has come a long way in the last few years. Everyone in the information industries, including libraries, should be paying close attention to this stuff.
New Comscore numbers out, and as expected the iPad is the vast majority of online traffic for tablets:
" In August 2011, iPads delivered 97.2 percent of all tablet traffic in the U.S. iPads have also begun to account for a higher share of Internet traffic than iPhones (46.8 percent vs. 42.6 percent of all iOS device traffic)."
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Smartphones and Tablets Drive Nearly 7 Percent of Total U.S. Digital Traffic – comScore, Inc
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the report Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media Cons…
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Going to try a bit of an experiment, using +Daniel Treadwell's WordPress plugin. I'm going to write here, using the Google+ tools and such, and then let it cross-post to my blog…effectively, going to try using Google+ as my blogging engine for a bit.
We'll see how this goes. Would love feedback if you have any.
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refix”>+Daniel Treadwell's Google+ to WordPress plugin. Let's see how this works.
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Wish the light had been better, but for a from-the-hip shot with no real prep, I like it.
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Here's a much better take on my G+ post from last week re: people complaining about Apple. +Harry McCracken says it better than I did:
"If you think people who use Apple products are prisoners, you’re essentially accusing them of being too stupid to make their own decisions. At least Stallman explicitly calls them fools! Raymond, with his pretty-window-treatment metaphor, apparently thinks Apple users are style-obsessed fetishists, too dim to make the right purchasing decisions. "
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A Strange Sort of Prison, a Strange Sort of Freedom
Free software advocate and GNU creator Richard Stallman has blogged that he's glad Steve Jobs is gone. That's, um, gauche. But it's not why I bring up his post. He also calls Jobs "the pioneer of the …
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Emptiness is impermanence, it is change.
We should not complain about impermanence,
because without impermanence, nothing is possible.
I am not a spiritual person. I do not believe in a God, or a spirit, or an afterlife. But I can see the beauty and truth in the above Buddhist quote, and I feel its weight. It is incredible to me how emotional I have been tonight after learning about the death of Steve Jobs. It is fortunate for the 21st century that we had Steve as long as we did, but I will not complain about impermanence. It is what allows the future to happen.
Thanks for showing us your vision of the future, Steve. I look forward to seeing what is possible next.
I swear I will scream if I have to read one more comment that mentioned how Amazon's Kindle Fire is "just as locked down" as the iPad, like that's a bad thing. Seriously, people…do you complain that your Microwave uses proprietary parts? That you can't run arbitrary programs on your toaster? Seriously?
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ass=”proflinkPrefix”>+Kevin Kelly, riffing off of Arthur C. Clarke: "This is the futurist's dilemma: Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. Either way, a futurist can't win. He is either dismissed or wrong."
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The Technium: The Futurist's Dilemma
The Technium. kk lifestream. *Lifestream; *The Technium; *Cool Tools; *True Films; *Screen Pub; *Quantified Self; *New Rules; *Street Use; *Asia Grace. FEEDS RSS feed. Most Popular Postings; Tech Shop…
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