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John Rich

Does Technological Change Shape Historical Change? - Predict - Medium - 0 views

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    "In the opening passage of Do Machines Make History (1967), Robert Heilbroner argues that technology has a direct bearing on the human drama of history-but it does not make all of history. The challenge he identifies is whether something systematic can be said about the matter. In this piece, I briefly evaluate the degree to which technological change shapes historical change. I leave discussion on reasons why technologies change for other debates-instead focusing on the effects of technology, irrespective of their determinants. I suggest that while historical change depends on more than just technology, technology plays an unignorable role. Technology expands the range of actions for history-makers, exerts political influence (whether reflecting or independent of the intent of its makers), and can invite a cascade of further technological change."
Simeon Spearman

The TV That Watches You - Technology Review - 0 views

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    Flingo makes software for TVs that can easily deliver content related to the currently viewed showto mobile phones or laptops. Makes it possible to incorporate TV viewing history into viewer's browsing history as well.
Ivy Chang

Supermarket provides individual pricing based on shopping habits | Springwise - 1 views

  • if a brand brings out a new soft drink and a user has a history of buying the company’s existing products, they may receive money off the new drink, whereas someone who has never expressed an interest through their purchases would pay full price. Similarly, a customer whose loyalty card data suggests they shop for a family might get offered a discount on a larger version of a product they already regularly buy.
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    provides a price for certain products depending on each member's individual shopping history
Ivy Chang

Facebook takes on Timehop with nostalgic 'On This Day' page | The Verge - 0 views

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    Facebook could get a little more nostalgic. The social network is currently testing a feature that will let users take a trip through the past, viewing the highlights of what they and their friends were up to exactly one year prior to the current date. The history feature - currently called "On This Day" - has begun appearing as a viewing option in select users' News Feeds.
Greg Steen

Google Labs Word Usage Chart - 0 views

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    Google recently launched an interactive chart that shows you patterns of word usage over history.  Really cool and kind of addictive.  This is one take on it; think we should cover it from some angle whether or not this is the right article.
Greg Steen

history of the remix - 0 views

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    7 min history of the remix
John Rich

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Kindle - 0 views

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    ""New technologies kill old gods and give birth to new gods. That's why agricultural deities were different from hunter-gatherer spirits, why factory hands fantasised about different paradises than peasants and why the revolutionary technologies of the twenty-first century are far more likely to spawn unprecedented religious movements than to revive medieval creeds." ― from "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow""
Simeon Spearman

In a BuzzFed, Gawkerized World, One Image Is as Good as Next | Commentary and analysis ... - 0 views

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    "While at least Life-magazine-killer TV has served as a platform for the creation of some great artworks (HBO's "The Wire," created by newspaperman-turned-TV-auteur David Simon, comes to mind) and inspired the creation of new art forms (see the upcoming Smithsonian retrospective of the work of "father of video art" Nam June Paik), it's hard to imagine what of lasting value hot web-native media brands like Gawker and BuzzFeed are contributing to visual culture and art history. Which brings me to an email I got last Wednesday from Gawker promoting its "top story" of Dec. 5., titled "The 13 Most Powerful Images of Naked Celebrities of 2012," which quickly racked up more than a million page views. It was a sequel to a Gawker post from the previous day titled "The 19 Most Powerful Images of 2012," which was mostly a shameless, edited-down rip-off of a BuzzFeed post titled "The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012," consisting of intense wire-service photojournalism from Reuters, the AP, Getty and others, which derive most of their support from old-school print-centric publications around the world. Gawker's excuse for its act of, uh, curation: "Who has time to scroll through 45 pictures?""
Simeon Spearman

NBCUniversal, Hearst Corp. Close Deal to Rebrand G4 as Esquire Channel - The Hollywood ... - 0 views

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    "Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the NBCUniversal-owned cable network has closed a deal with Esquire parent Hearst Corporation to shift the former gaming network to a destination more in line with the modern male. The effort is designed to capture a growing, upscale demographic that isn't being reached through other male networks, including adrenaline-heavy Spike and History. "
Simeon Spearman

3D Printers Are Not Like 2D Printers: A Rant | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    "People. Listen. 3D printing is not just 2D printing with another dimension added on. Yes, the names are very similar, but their uses are not even remotely analogous. We may reasonably conclude, therefore, that 1) 3D printing will not recapitulate the history of 2D printing, 2) as soon as you make an argument along those lines you lose all credibility and look like an idiot."
Simeon Spearman

800K #Sandy-grams (Most Captured Event Ever) Showed Systrom Instagram Is "Going To Need... - 0 views

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    "800,000 Instagrams were tagged [Hurricane] #Sandy, and Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom thinks that makes it the most digitally captured event in history. But "how do we mine all these photos, make sense of them so you can consume the most interesting photos about Sandy?" he asked today at GigaOm's RoadMap conference. His conclusion was "We're going to need to be a big data company." Systrom says Instagram's focused is on "making meaning of all the data coming in, and improving the experience of curating." For example, he said that there were only 85,000 #SuperBowl Instagrams, compared to the 800,000 #SandyGram. People can't consume 800,000 photos, but they still want to pull valuable information from them."
Ivy Chang

Online grocery store uses customer purchase histories to predict when items will run ou... - 0 views

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    Italy's Milk, Please! has already enabled homeowners to crowdsource last minute groceries when they find they've run out. Now Rosie is a platform for food shopping that learns users' purchase routines to deliver items when they need them.
Simeon Spearman

Pinterest keeps and engages members better than Twitter, data shows (exclusive) | Ventu... - 0 views

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    The data show that Pinterest retains and engages users two to three times more efficiently than Twitter did at the same time in its history. What's more, the pins represent a ide diversity of content spread across a smattering of sites. Arguably most intriguing, however, is that 80 percent of all pins are re-pins, meaning that an overwhelming majority of content shared on site is recycled between users.
Ivy Chang

App delivers customers' shopping history to staff as they check-in | Springwise - 2 views

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    Neiman Marcus trialling an app that provides sales associates consumer data they can act in real-time. download app, opt-in, when they walk in store it triggers the app and provides info on product
Rebecca May

Hulu 'Face Match' feature attaches an actor's entire history to their mug -- Engadget - 0 views

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    facial recognition within TV episodes on hulu to pull up info on actors
Simeon Spearman

E-Style Community Teams Up With Facebook Timeline To Track Your Look History @PSFK - 0 views

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    Hmmmmm
Simeon Spearman

Industry Aims for Viewable Impressions to Take Hold in 2013 | ClickZ - 0 views

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    The primary goal: begin to phase out reliance on the ad impressions-served metric and replace it with the viewable impressions metric. Also by that time the Interactive Advertising Bureau and its partners in the initiative expect advertisers and publishers will be using the eGRP metric, which industry players hope will complement the viewable impression metric with a more audience-focused gauge that speaks to brand advertisers. It was over a year ago that the IAB came together with The Association of National Advertisers and American Association of Advertising Agencies to introduce its sweeping project, overseen by the Media Ratings Council, a respected third party with a long history accrediting advertising and media firms. Pilot testing for the viewable impression is near completion, said the organizations during a webinar held this afternoon. The groups also said the creation of a viewable-based eGRP is underway, in addition to the development of a new taxonomy to classify digital ads as they move into this next evolutionary stage. The viewable impression metric would measure only ads that are actually seen by a user, rather than measuring all impressions served even when users don't bother to scroll down to see them. The idea is to count only real exposures of ads online. "The notion of viewable impressions is accepted by buyers and sellers alike," said Sherrill Mane, SVP, industry services for the IAB, during today's webinar.
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