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alexbelov

Stae wants to prepare cities for the future | TechCrunch - 0 views

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Technology economy city

shared by alexbelov on 05 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • innovation is coming from private companies. These companies are starting to have better insights about how a city works compared to local governments.
  • Cities should be collecting all the data these companies are generating — Airbnb, Uber, drone delivery, Google self-driving cars. You can run analytics and look at the efficiency of the city
  • The startup is building a platform so that all the companies can send their data to this platform using an API approach.
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  • Stae is starting with a compliance and payment platform for the sharing economy. Stae wants to create an API that would let Airbnb seamlessly pay (for example) $.75 to the city for a one night stay
  • Boston is the first partner city to test the platform.
  • alexbelov on 05 Apr 16
     
    A NY startup is trying to build a platform that would collect data generated by a city to make the city smarter. The accumulated information will be used for making management decisions data-driven. They will start with providing payment platform to collect local taxes from cervices like Airbnb and Uber. The first city to take part in this experiment is Boston.
Oleg Batluk

Digital media may be changing how you think: New study finds users focus on concrete de... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...160508151944.htm

social digital dementia physical-digital overlap data digitalization

shared by Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16 - No Cached
  • Using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading may make you more inclined to focus on concrete details rather than interpreting information more abstractly
  • wake-up call to how digital media may be affecting our likelihood of using abstract thought
  • Reading comprehension and problem solving success were affected by the type of platform used.
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  • For the abstract questions, on average, participants using the non-digital platform scored higher on inference questions with 66 percent correct, as compared to those using the digital platform, who had 48 percent correct
  • On the concrete questions, participants using the digital platform scored better with 73 percent correct, as compared to those using the non-digital platform, who had 58 percent correct
  • it's crucial to recognize the role that digitization of information might be having on this important aspect of cognition
alexbelov

Facebook's Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store |... - 0 views

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chatbots messaging technology Social

shared by alexbelov on 17 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Today, Facebook Messenger has 800 million monthly active users – more than 100 times the number of iPhone owners when Apple launched the App Store. Messenger’s current active user base exceeds even the total number of iPhones ever sold. Messaging apps now have more active users than social networks.
  • If and when Facebook announces a Bot Store, it will mark the “end of the beginning” of a new era: messaging as a platform. Conversational user interfaces are about to change the way billions of users interact with the world around them.
  • Pavel Durov announced the expansion of the Telegram Bot Store and Ted Livingston staked out Kik’s claim to be the WeChat of the West. By the end of the year, Slack had announced the Slack App Directory, supported by an $80 million fund to fuel the growth of the ecosystem, and Google was rumored to be developing its own chatbots.
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  • 2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Facebook is developing chatbot platform for its messenger. It will open new opportunities for online businesses, including conversational commerce. Message bots will become new apps and challenge existing industries.
alexkozh

Future scenarios for the TV and video industry (strategic foresight by Deloitte) - 1 views

www2.deloitte.com/...gx-future-of-tv-video.html

'Video watching' 'OTT platforms' Entertainment Content Distribution

shared by alexkozh on 15 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • alexkozh on 15 Apr 19
     
    Four possible scenarios of video industry: 1) Universal supermarket (few digital platforms with 100% content, AI based special selections for users), 2) Content endgame (content owners withdraw content from plarforms, develop D2C approach), 3) Revenge of the broadcasters (media holdings win their shares by partnerships with telecpms and offering local content, global content exist on digital platforms), 4) Lost in diversity (multiple content creators, multiple content distributors
alexbelov

What Brands Should Know About Facebook Messenger Chat Bots | Digital - AdAge - 1 views

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automation facebook messenger chat bots Technology entertainment

shared by alexbelov on 01 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Brands like Disney have worked with tech firms like Disney-backed Imperson to create chat bots on Facebook's Messenger service so people can have conversations with computerized versions of characters like ABC's "The Muppets" star Miss Piggy without needing to staff an actual human on the other side of the conversation.
  • it creates a new kind of engagement, which is around messaging person-to-person like most messaging platforms but also person-to-business or person-to-brand or person-to-publisher
  • It expands the platform beyond just personal communication
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  • We actually were, I think, one of the first customers who actually requested this API
  • Imperson provides technology that knows how to automate this conversation in a realistic way, so the user believes he is speaking with a character or even the actor doing the character
  • I think there are a few different reasons why today it's more relevant and more attractive. We are taking familiar figures like celebrities; it's not just a chat bot that you speak with for the sake of your artificial intelligence curiosity. This is an entertainment experience. People chatting with Miss Piggy enjoy the experience as if they were chatting with the real Miss Piggy. In order to create the interaction, we were working with Disney people and Disney writers who actually write for Miss Piggy and make sure it's a completely authentic conversation.
  • alexbelov on 01 Apr 16
     
    Disney beta-tests Facebook's chatbot platform: chat with real Miss Piggy.
nrybakov

Google announces Stadia, its cross-platform game streaming service - 0 views

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Entertainment Game Technology

shared by nrybakov on 09 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • The service will let you play all manner of computer games streamed from Google‘s data centers to your devices running the Chrome browser or ChromeOS platform, or even your TV with a Chromecast Ultra plugged in. You won’t need any additional hardware to run Stadia, and you won’t need to install anything to play games. As Google VP Phil Harrison noted in an interview with Eurogamer, “Anywhere where YouTube runs well, Stadia can run.”
  • Rather than treat Stadia as an entirely standalone service, Google sees people using it from and with YouTube. That means your starting point with Stadia could be a game trailer on the video platform, or a live stream of a tournament; you could simply hit Play on either video stream and start playing – solo or with others – within a few seconds.
  • nrybakov on 09 Apr 19
     
    New Service from Google that allows users to play games streamed from Google on any possible devices. That may potentially attract more audience to the other Google products (YouTube especially).
zolotarev

Q1 2019 Social Trends - eMarketer Trends, Forecasts & Statistics - 2 views

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social networks social platforms

shared by zolotarev on 21 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • “We plan to build this [platform] the way we’ve developed WhatsApp: focus on the most fundamental and private use case—messaging
  • WeChat Pay and Tenpay (Tencent’s business-oriented payment platform) accounted for 38.8% of the total amount spent via mobile payments in China during Q3 2018
  • games were the most popular category of miniprograms, used by 42% of WeChat miniprogram users in China
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  • and then build more ways for people to interact on top of that, including calls, video chats, groups, Stories, businesses, payments, commerce, and ultimately a platform for many other kinds of private services,” Zuckerberg wrote.
  • Advertisers worldwide will continue to shift spending from the News Feed to Stories, slowing ad revenue growth for Facebook in 2019. Stories monetize at a lower rate than the News Feed.
  • More social commerce: Facebook is likely to expand its “Checkout on Instagram” to new countries and companies throughout 2019.
Maria Gurova

A DIY Platform For Building Devices You Control With Your Mind | Co.Design | business +... - 0 views

www.fastcodesign.com/...cts-you-control-with-your-mind

Technology science brain-computer interface kickstarter open source

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up
  • 100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized
  • The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible
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  • OpenBCI is designing the Lego blocks; someone else will build the castle.
  • Making EEG-controlled novelties is one thing, but designing better medical devices to enable paralyzed people to move their wheelchairs, or locked-in patients to communicate, is a truly noble enterprise
  • Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14
     
    watch the video in the article, it's really comprehensive in understanding the idea
Maria Gurova

Facebook will give video makers a cut - 0 views

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Technology Facebook video content Immersive Entertainment Social Media content consumption content snacking micro-moments news platforms UGC Maker Movement

shared by Maria Gurova on 01 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • "There's a certain class of content which is only going to come onto Facebook if there's a good way to compensate content owners for that,"
  • "We've recently rolled out the business model for this. We'll give a revenue share on a portion of the views to content owners
  • To grasp the scope of change unraveling in content creation, which is increasingly fragmented, consider all the mobile apps on your smartphone.
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  • Studies consistently show users thumb through only a handful of apps on a regular basis
  • This is why tech bellwethers — from social media platforms such as Facebook to traditional hardware companies like Apple — are churning out news products, designed to court and engage audiences to their brand-ecosystems.
  • Facebook plans to announce the launch of Notify, a standalone news app, the Financial Times reports. Featured content will come from media partners including Vogue, The Washington Post and CBS.
  • Professional content already is splintered across content creators and technology platforms
  • Apple News, for iOS 9. The mobile app aggregates news from a wide range of sources into a mobile-friendly format,
  • Twitter Moments is a feature on Twitter that links tweets in a traditional story format, from beginning to end.
  • Snapchat has been partnering with publishers for Snapchat Discover. The app, widely popular with millennials, includes a "Discover" feature that showcases stories from publishers including Vice, People, CNN and National Geographic
  • For example, with instant articles Facebook directly hosts outside publishers' articles on its social network — and Facebook pockets the traffic
  • Facebook on Wednesday also said its daily video views have reached 8 billion, though some tech analsyts including Pfeiffer wonder if a single view is measured by only a few seconds on an autoplay setting.
  • Facebook in fact is testing its own, site-specific video hub, as Re/code has reported.
  • Maria Gurova on 01 Dec 15
     
    social media is rapidly moving towards serving as a one-stop destination for all consumer media needs 
anna_nelidova

AirConsole Is A Browser-Based Gaming Platform Where Your Smartphone Is The Controller |... - 0 views

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Technology gaming smartphone controller interfaces accessibility entertainment simplification

shared by anna_nelidova on 23 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as controllers
  • For a local multiplayer gaming session AirConsole is super simple to use
  • your phone becomes the touch pad to control the goings-on on the other screen
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  • it’s cross platform and cross device — so you don’t need specific hardware to get a gaming session up and running
  • You won’t be able to play the newest AAA games with it, but that’s also not really what we’re all about. AirConsole is to play a few quick games with friends while having a beer.
  • anna_nelidova on 23 Oct 15
     
    Your smartphone can easily become a controller if you go to AirConsole.com on your computer and phone and enter the link code. It's target audience is not pro gamers community, but the casual social gaming crowd.
Olga Bykova

Piggybackr Launches Its 'Kickstarter For Kids' To Let Youth Get In On The Crowdfunding ... - 1 views

techcrunch.com/...piggybackr-crowdfunding-kids

kids freetime social

shared by Olga Bykova on 07 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that’s specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls
  • Olga Bykova on 07 Aug 13
     
    Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that's specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls.
Maria Gurova

Instagram Testing 3D Touch Ads - 1 views

www.fastcompany.com/...instagram-testing-3d-touch-ads

Technology social media e-commerce Instagram mobile advertising micro-moments Shop Now ADD instant shopping Market Access vs Ownership Consumerism 2.0

shared by Maria Gurova on 10 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • says the move by Instagram is part of an ongoing initiative to add more e-commerce features to the platform, as well as more ways to display and interact with products
  • "Mobile commerce is definitely a space we are looking at closely.
  • Instagram has become increasingly more interested in advertising and has deployed a variety of new products and ad formats for advertisers.
  • Maria Gurova on 10 Nov 15
     
    Instagram is testing tools that might make it the e-comemerce platform of the future
alexbelov

Future of messaging apps - 3 views

www.usatoday.com/...77847504

Technology messaging apps Social

shared by alexbelov on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • users of the messaging app WeChat can order food, call a taxi, check their bank balance and even shop flash sales of limited-edition goods. And for the user, the experience is just like texting a friend.
  • alexbelov on 11 Mar 16
     
    Messengers are becoming a platform for B2C communication offering a new retail experience and allowing to order goods, get special offers or discounts, check or top up balance, book tickets, or schedule activities. Businesses start using AI and language processing technologies to automate communication with their customers.
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Medical Science Meets Data Science? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...cal-science-meets-data-science

Technology health human tracking big data legal privacy wearable cyber safety wellbeing

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • If data from personal biometric devices is ever going to be truly useful to researchers, big medical centers will have to pull it into electronic health records (EHRs), de-identify it, and make it public. Without the medical data found in EHRs, like CT scans, X-rays, and blood tests, researchers have little context for wearable sensor data and there is little useful information that can be gleaned from just the raw data
  • Practice Fusion, a popular EHR company, will begin opening up its API over the next year to pull in data from wearable sensors to its platform.
  • Basis, a startup that makes a health sensor-laden watch, is working on the first step: a device-agnostic platform that puts all of a person’s health sensor data into a single online repository.
Irina Marchenko

G20's Young Entrepreneurs are Increasingly Interested in Digital Technologies but not H... - 0 views

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Entrepreneur Summit Young

shared by Irina Marchenko on 05 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Irina Marchenko on 05 Aug 13
     
    The recommendations summarized in a final Summit communique primarily focus on the following: *Need to develop digital infrastructure. Young entrepreneurs are the most active group in terms of both starting up businesses and using the latest digital technology to help run the business and optimize business processes; *Importance of developing educational programs for entrepreneurs, advancing the entrepreneurial culture, and streamlining government funding for "green" technology studies; *Need to ease the tax burden in the fields of scientific-technical programs and social entrepreneurship, namely the taxes imposed on employers and employee income tax; *Access to funding for startups and emerging companies. Ensuring funding on easy terms, changing banking requirements, developing rules for new forms of funding, including cross border online platforms, investors' and entrepreneurs' networks.
Maria Gurova

«Сегодня домашние 3D-принтеры печатают какую-то хрень» - Технологии - Афиша-В... - 0 views

vozduh.afisha.ru/...ntery-pechatayut-kakuyuto-hren

Technology entertainment 3D Printer CIS 3D printing service KE

shared by Maria Gurova on 25 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Maria Gurova on 25 Aug 14
     
    Russian on-line service that can print your design on 3D or create the model on demand and print it. Designers are offered a platform to sell their designs to customers 
Maria Gurova

Microsoft HoloLens: Real life holograms unveiled as part of Windows 10 - News - Gadgets... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...art-of-windows-10-9993738.html

microsoft Technology entertainment Play learning virtual reality gadgets hologram

shared by Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Microsoft unveiled a new hologram platform today as part of its new operating system
  • The holographic software is built into Windows 10 already, the company said. Though Microsoft is working on its own hardware, the platform will also work for other virtual reality software like Oculus Rift and Google Glass
  • Microsoft executive built a virtual flying drone, which the company then showed could be 3D printed. Alex Kipman, who helped lead the project, called it “print preview for 3D printing”.
  • Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15
     
    Microsoft tackles the field of VR headsets 
Vladimir Antonov

Scientists create a prototype for the human skin|Interesting E... - 0 views

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Technology entertainment science skin

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 25 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • What makes this device very interesting is that it is extremely cheap to make. Replicating the human skin involves creating a device that can detect pressure, touch, proximity, temperature, humidity, flow, and pH levels all at the same time. In order to achieve this, one would expect that highly sophisticated sensors and circuits will be used. That does not happen to be the case. This team used common household items such as sticky notes, napkins, aluminum foils and sponges to create the paper skin. The whole device cost only $1,67 to make.
  • “My vision is to make electronics simple to understand and easy to assemble so that ordinary people can participate in innovation.”
  • Compared to various pricey sensors out there, the paper skin looks to be a good alternative with many potential applications. According to test results, it has already been seen that the paper skin performs on the same level as the more expensive sensors currently available.
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  • “Compared with the sophisticated and complex artificial skin platforms found in the literature, Paper Skin not only provides the most functionalities on one platform, including 13-cm range proximity sensing, but also displays improved sensing performances over the highly expensive counterpart materials,” said Joanna Nassar, an electrical engineer at KAUST and the lead author in the research work.
  • Vladimir Antonov on 25 Feb 16
     
    science's getting cheaper
alexbelov

CableRobot Simulator Brings Real Movement to Virtual Reality | Virtual Reality Times - 0 views

www.virtualrealitytimes.com/...obot-simulator-virtual-reality

virtual reality Technology movement motion simulator cable robot entertainment immersive experience educational Next Generation Interfaces immersive entertainment

shared by alexbelov on 29 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Called the CableRobot simulator, it comprises of a platform that is safely tucked inside a fiber roll cage, which is made of very lightweight carbon. The platform can seat a single person with or without a VR headset.
  • ts initial target use is mainly for industries, but VR enthusiasts are hopeful that the CableRobot simulator will be developed to adopt video games such as racing games which demands physical movements in order to provide a realistic gaming experience in VR.
  • alexbelov on 29 Oct 15
     
    A robot that simulates motion for VR environment and can create acceleration up to 1.5g in response to VR experience. Potentially useful for research training, research and gaming.
Anton Vorykhalov

REDEF ORIGINAL: By Obsessing Over the Present, Big Media has Forgotten its Past and End... - 0 views

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DMD Media_Consumption Future_of_TV

shared by Anton Vorykhalov on 22 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • By Obsessing Over the Present, Big Media has Forgotten its Past and Endangered its Future (But it’s Not Too Late)
  • When it comes to digital-era investments, Disney has certainly been the most active of the major media companies (though IP represents more than 80% of total outlays). Over the past decade, the House of Mouse has bought the largest YouTube Multi-Channel Network (Maker Studios), a mobile gaming company (Playdom), several multi-media storytelling platforms (Marvel, LucasArts, Pixar), become Vice’s largest outside shareholder, doubled down on technology-driven theme park experiences (MagicBand, VR), established an annual fan expo (D23), formed an accelerator program with TechStars (Disney Accelerator) and launched an ever-expanding sandbox video game at the cost of more than $125M (Disney Infinity)
  • For the past 20 years, television networks have reaped more than $1T inflation adjusted revenues and $300B in net cash flow thanks to what was sown throughout the 1980s and early 1990s (most cable networks took years to hit cumulative net profits, with several market leaders accumulating hundreds of millions in losses doing so). But the harvest is coming to an end. Crop rotation is not a waste; it’s an essential investment in forward productivity.
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