Lecture about Sociable Robots at MIT Museum
Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they “open up a new world of questions.” But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea of human relationships and the very “purpose, importance, of living things.”
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There are more and more people joining the ranks of FarmVille every day. No one can get enough of this game and there are plenty of reasons why. In FarmVille, you can get away from the noise and stress of everyday life. Just relax, plant some seeds, harvest some crops – not a bad way ... ...
Napster is the pioneer of digital music. The official Napster site offers unlimited on-demand music streaming as well as downloadable MP3s for one’s permanent collection playable on any MP3 player and all MP3 music-enabled mobile phones. The company’s online service is available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany and ... ...
LifeLock provides a proactive identity theft service, specializing in the prevention of identity theft rather than the reporting of it. Lifelock Identify Theft Protection services provide you early notification of identity threats, search the web for the illegal selling of your information, help cancel and replace the contents of your lost or sto...
Hootsuite is a professional Twitter client that allows you to manage multiple social networks through one client. Hootsuite videotutorial Share/Save ...
Grooveshark is a new website to listen music in streaming for free and a good alternative to well known services like Last.fm or Jango. The site already has 2 million registered users and 7 million unique users with a presence in over 200 countries. In addition, Grooveshark has a huge database of songs. Musicians and ... ...
Drupal Gardens is a content management & social publishing system equipped with multi-user blogging, commenting, forums and website content creation and user management features. Simplify site building with pre-packaged socially powered templates. Choose from several beautifully designed themes to accelerate time to market. All themes suppor...
Watch the 2010 Olympic Winter Sports Games live online in your PC ...
Academic Earth is a portal that offers free online courses of leading universities such as Harvard, Standford, UCLA, Yale or Columbia AcademicEarch brings you high quality educational content from the most prestigious universities in the workd available online for free. Academic Earth organization have building a user-friendly educational ecosys...
Google has introduced its new service: Google Buzz .This online service gives users social networking tools such as link sharing and status updates through Gmail. Shared links and messages show up integrated in Gmail inbox.When the service is accessed through a mobile phone, it tags posts with the user’s current location in English. Google B...
In a world first, OOiZiT.com offers unsigned artists the chance to have a hit. OOiZiT.com combines the capabilities of sites such as Spotify, MySpace, iTunes, Twitter and Facebook under one banner, but with a key difference: the ability to propel users into the charts. Every track sold on OOiZiT.com counts towards the UK charts, including the UK...
TVGorge is a new site wich mission is to bring high quality streaming television shows to the masses. TVGorge search and indexes TV streaming websites around internet. You can access to thousands of TV episodes for free. In TVGorge you will find virtually all the currently aired series, including 24, Dexter, CSI, Flashforward, Californication...
Video of Twitter development process Twitter Code Swarm from Ben Sandofsky on Vimeo. Share/Save ...
Two java-based software companies, KonaKart (e-commerce) and dotCMS (web content management) have joined forces to meet the challenging and growing demand of CMS-driven e-commerce. Starting this past summer, both organizations worked closely together to design and implement the proper architecture and development of an integrated tool-set, with...
Watch Live broadcast of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ announcement of the 82nd Academy Awards Nominations. This is the first time the Academy is broadcasting the announcement live on the web. Tune in on February 2 at 8:38 AM ET / 5:38 AM PT when the full list of ... ...
Kindle for PC is a new version of the popular e-reader for your computer. You can read over 400,000 Kindle books. With Kindle for PC you can Access your Kindle books -even if you don’t have your Kindle- with you and automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync ... ...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad, a tablet device to be released that features multi-touch interaction with multimedia formats and existing iPhone OS apps. The device incorporates an LED-backlit 9.7-inch (25 cm) multi-touch in-plane switching display running at XGA resolution. First Reactions: iPad examined by technology experts. Shar...
Dr. Laurence Lavelle, UCLA was interviewed over lunch on the topic: What Is Science? Complete and unedited audio interview. Share/Save ...
Audioowl is a huge library of free public domais audio books. The books on AudioOwl are helpfully organized by genre. You can download audiobooks in mp3, iPod and iTunes format without restrictions. Audioowl has hundreds of titles in english, spanish and french, among others languages. Share/Save ...
Standford popular iPhone Apps development course has arrive to iTunes Store. The first class of the 10-week session is available as a free download on iTunes U. Users of the iTunes Store may subscribe to and download each week’s lecture videos and accompanying materials for the 10-week course, iPhone Application Development, which is taugh...
Weebly is a free online service that lets you create free websites and blogs in minutes without technical skills. Videos, pictures, maps, and text are added to your new website throught a simple drag-and-drop interface. Results are impressive. It is completely free to create and publish a website with Weebly. Weebly provides free hosting , blogging...
Howcast and Youtube Creator’s Corner will present “Guerrilla Filmmaking: Learn the Secrets to Low-Budget, High-Creativity Filmmaking” on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 5 PM (ET). In their special event, Howcast is bringing together some of their most talented filmmakers for a live-streamed conversation during which they’ll reveal the...
Video Tutorial of “BlueFish“, an excellent open source web editor Share/Save ...
ClickBank is a secure online retail outlet for more than 12,000 digital product vendors and 100,000 active affiliate marketers. You can sell your own products throught Clickbank online marketplace. This video tutorial shows you how to sign up for a ClickBank account as either a vendor or an affiliate. Join Clickbank and star your own business ... ...
FarmVille is a great place to go to escape the rigors of everyday life. You can get back to nature and enjoy the peace and tranquility that comes from working on the land. However, not everything in FarmVille is an escape from the ordinary. You still need money for just about everything you do. You ... ...
Android Sudoku -created by Ed Burnette- is an Android port of the classic Sudoku puzzle game. The game consists of 3 Sudoku puzzles, offers three difficulty levels, hints for players and has a nice background music. Download this free Android Sudoku Share/Save ...
The latest generation of Ebook readers is here: Kindle DX utilizing the latest in electronic-ink display technology providing a crisp black-and-white 9.7-inch diagonal screen with the same appearance and readability of printed paper. Sharp and natural with no glare or backlight, reading on Kindle DX is nothing like reading from a computer screen. K...
Bookmarking Demon is a software that allows you bookmark your websites to hundreds of social bookmarking automatically. Social Bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store ‘bookmark links’. Millions of visitors flood these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information. So the idea of bookmarking is to post lin...
Former Google executive, Dan Siroker left the search giant to work on the Obama presidential campaign. He specifically worked on the analytics side and explains how they used data and new media to win the Presidential election. Share/Save ...
ComicPress was introduced as a simple theme to publish webcomics. Four years and over 1500 comics later, it has grown into a versatile package with plugins and widgets that give artists even more power to share their comics with the world. The latest version of ComicPress requires WordPress 2.8 or later. Download ComicPress for free ComicPress Vide...
Satellite Direct is a new way to watch TV. You don’t need a satellite dish, cable box, or receiver to watch television with Satellite Direct. In fact, all you need to run this state of the art software is your home computer or laptop. That’s right- for less than half of what you’re probably paying for ... ...
CES International 2010 Expo has started. Look What’s New at the 2010 International CES New content for mobile devices, interactive Web-connected TV, new screen sizes for portables, and apps galore are likely to be main attractions at the 2010 CES. Share/Save ...
Brightstorm helps high school students succeed through online video courses taught by talented teachers. Brightstorm has brought together experts in Math, Critical Reading and Writing together into one comprehensive video package guaranteed to improve your child’s SAT score. With SATs coming up on March 14th, now is a great time to take advan...
StreamDirect TV is a revolutionary software will allow you to watch over 4500 Digital HD channels via optimized streaming technology. You will have full access to all the aforementioned channels from any location on the globe. You won’t need any dishes or boxes to activate this service. All you need is our software a computer and ... ...
Jolicloud is a Linux-based OS designed specifically for netbook. Jolicloud combines an optimized version of Linux kernel with an innovative and cool interface. This new OS can be installed in less than 15 minutes alongside your old Windows and all your data will be perfectly safe. Jolicloud allows users keep their data locally with the ... ...
BookSwim is the first online book rental library service lending you paperbacks, hardcovers and now college textbooks Netflix®-style directly to your house, without the need to purchase! We stock all the latest bestsellers, new releases, and classics! Read your books as long as you want – no late fees! Even choose to purchase and keep ... ...
TMP Video Tutorial I: Making Music with The Music Producer. Share/Save ...
