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Agents Seeking Movie, Book Adaptation for Facebook Status

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More often than not the inane musings of bored employees and drunk students, one Facebook status update has been separated from the chaff by Beverly Hills’ United Talent Agency and literary agency Fletcher & Co., who are pitching it for a film. The status update in question?
“Lisa Hamilton Day’s Pomeranian raided Chinese takeout bag overnight, [...]

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PingPongPlus Interactive Table Tennis

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PingPongPlus, a digital project out of MIT, brings an element of interactivity to the traditional game of table tennis, with a surface that visually reacts to the game as it happens. Projectors work in conjunction with sensors that detect the movement of the ball, causing effects such as water ripples upon impact. The ball’s motion [...]

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Augmented Reality YouTube War: The World Series of Tubing

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YouTube War is a conceptual augmented reality game created by Aaron Meyers and Jeff Crouse. Combining the intensity of a high-stakes poker tournament with the bizarre world of sensational online video, the competition consists of two players trying to out-do each other by presenting a series of videos (rendered as an augmented reality layer on [...]

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The Cutting Room Experiment

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With a population of just over 2.5 million people, Greater Manchester is one of the busiest, hustling and bustling counties in England. With much of this mass of peoples centered within the city of Manchester, the built up and industrial metropolitan has been developed from the centre outwards. However much of the city, particularly the [...]

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UN Opens a Tuition-Free University

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The United Nations recently announced the launch of the world’s first tuition-free online university. Named the University of the People, the school will open up access to higher education for many individuals around the world.
The UN explains:
For hundreds of millions of people around the world higher education is no more than a dream, Shai Reshef, [...]

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12 Ways the Internet Changed the Economics of News, For Better or For Worse

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Online Journalism Blog’s Paul Bradshaw has written a primer on how the internet has irrevocably changed the way news does business, and why any newspaper that hopes to survive needs to understand—and take advantage of—the new economics of journalism.
Among all of the 12 factors Bradshaw enumerates (ranging from the atomisation of news content to the [...]

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Pic: Gadgets Made Out of Cardboard

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British designer Kyle Bean has created this impressive set of cardboard sculptures as a statement on the environmental impact of constantly upgrading to the newest tech gear.
[ via Design Crave ]

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Free… It’s still the most powerful word in the English language!

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There’s been a hell of a lot of chat recently about exactly how you can make money through social media. So far, the only ones cashing in have been the founding principals when they sell off a fraction of their site to a traditional media company, which immediately gives them an insane valuation in the [...]

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MEDIA ARTS MONDAYS:
Cause Marketing with a Social Twist

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With the Internet’s ability to empower individuals, social media platforms have become powerful forces for change and community action. Social media interconnects millions of people at any given point providing everyone with a megaphone that can be heard far and fast.
While companies conventionally buy media and hire PR agencies to tell people about their charitable [...]

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Changes In Animation Technology (CaT Conference)

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At the Creativity and Technology Conference,  Zoic studios presented their project for “Killzone: Behind The Bullet”. It’s a download-able demo on the PS3 which follows the path of a bullet where gamers can control the camera angle, playback speed, and audio elements. The video renders in real time from the game engine, appealing to the [...]

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Documentary on World’s Largest & Most Lucrative Business-Plan Competition in China

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Broadcast on China’s CCTV national television, “Win in China” (赢在中国) is the world’s largest and most lucrative business plan competition. With over $5 million in prize money, the TV show pits 120,000 entrepreneurs competing to win $1.5 million dollars to invest in the winner’s business plan.
The documentary, produced by Robert Compton, follows the TV show [...]

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A Ripple in the Virtual World — Augmented Reality and Its Discontents

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Recently there has been a rash of cautiously critical opinions in the advertising blogosphere about augmented reality. Commentators at Advertising Lab, and Supercolider all believe augmented reality to be this year’s “Second Life”: over-hyped, under tested, and, at worst “disposable eye-candy”.
We fully acknowledge the potential for this technology to be merely an addition to the [...]

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Microsoft’s ‘Project Natal’ Makes You the Controller

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At this week’s E3 exhibition in Los Angeles, Microsoft is showing off a device they’re claiming will both revolutionize video gaming and render obsolete its hitherto requisite accessory—the controller. Dubbed “Project Natal,” the peripheral is an array of microphones, an RGB camera, and a depth sensor, that work in concert to pull off sophisticated face, [...]

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Quirky Crowdsources Product Design

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Nascent online service Quirky is hoping to eliminate the opaque process of product research, industrial design, marketing, and manufacturing that stands between inventors and consumers, collapsing them into a streamlined, democratized online discussion they’re saying takes only days from start to finish.
Anyone with an idea and $99 can pay to pitch their proposal to Quirky’s [...]

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‘Powers of Ten’ for the Twitterverse

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Social media is revolutionizing our lives as individuals and as marketers. In the last year, Facebook exploded globally and Twitter grew by a staggering 1382%. Last week Google launched the ‘Wave’, a new in-browser collaboration tool, ushering in the era of real time, aggregated communication.
Leading corporate brands are responding. The list of Fortune 500 companies [...]

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