Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems
coondoggie writes "What do you get when you combine images from Google Earth and the brainpower from researchers at Oak Ridge National Labs? Well in this case you get a tool that enables real-time status of the national electric grid that federal state and local agencies can use to coordinate and respond to major problems such as wide-area power outages, natural disasters and other catastrophic events. The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, announced this week, mashes together images and stats of everything from real-time status of the electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation."
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August 7th, 2008 - Posted in slashdot | | Comments Off
Mozilla’s Snowl Lets You Surf the Web and Handle Messaging Simultaneously
In a move that could have a major impact on the way you surf the Web, the Mozilla Foundation today announced Snowl, an experimental solution designed to bring messaging and Web surfing together in the browser.
According to the company, Snowl is designed to answer the question of whether or not a browser can “help you follow and participate in online discussions.” Mozilla believes that browsers are specially designed to address issues most users have in handling messages – weeding out the less important messages and navigating through the messages – and with Snowl, it aims to bring messaging platforms into one central location to let you surf the Web and handle messages at the same time.
Mozilla is still unsure of whether or not people will actually want to use the service and is opening up Snowl for us to figure that out. But if it does become a desired application, Mozilla expects to offer “support for additional message sources like Facebook, AIM, and Google Talk; create an interface for writing and sending messages to enable true two-way conversations; and develop an API to make it easier for developers to build new experimental interfaces, e.g. an instant message view.”
There’s no way to tell if Snowl will be a success or if most users will even want to use the program. But at first glance, it looks like a winner.
Let’s face it – it’s utterly annoying to switch back and forth between tasks to answer some messages and address other issues in AIM or Google Talk. But if messaging was built into the browser, productivity would certainly increase and the overall usefulness of a standard Mozilla browser would skyrocket.
I don’t know about you, but I’m behind Snowl.
You can download Snowl here.
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August 6th, 2008 - Posted in Mashable! | | Comments Off
Video: RoboStool follows you around, never leaves you sans a seat
Filed under: Robots
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August 2nd, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Five Amazing Color Palette Generators
Do you need to pick out a new color scheme, but don't know where to begin? If you're designing a web site or blog theme, finding just the right color palette is nearly as important as writing good code, but it can be a challenge for those of us who don't have any innate design skills. When looking for inspiration today, it's easy to become overwhelmed with the number of choices available for generating color schemes, but here are five apps we find truly inspiring.
Finding Inspiration
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Five_Amazing_Color_Palette_Generators';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';When you're looking for color schemes, a quick Google search will lead you to a number of resources - in fact, there are so many it's almost too much. The problem with a lot of the apps you find today is that they are simply tools to provide you with the numbers of the web colors. While these are useful for designers who already have colors in mind, they're less using for those of us that are, let's say, design-challenged. What we need instead are apps that can provide color schemes for us so we can pick ones we like or apps that let us find our own sources of inspiration - like Flickr photos - and use those as the basis of our palette. To that end, here are five of the apps we find inspiring, but we're looking forward to hearing about your favorites in the comments, too.
Kuler
Kuler is an Adobe Labs color palette generator and explorer. You can use the Flash-based app to either create your own color scheme by setting your own hex values or you can search through, rate, and tag, and comment on the schemes that have already been created by others. All the color schemes can then be downloaded in the Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ASE) format which works with any of Adobe's Creative Suite applications.
Color Hunter
Color Hunter is a color palette generator that uses flickr photos to create a palette. To find color palettes on Color Hunter, enter a search term in the box at the top of the page. You can search by tag or hex color code or the image URL from flickr's web site. If you have an image of your on saved on your computer, you can upload it and get a color palette generated based on the colors in the image. You can also use Color Hunter to search by tag.
Color Palette Generator
The Color Palette Generator located on DeGraeve.com is a simple tool that also lets you use a photo from the web as the inspiration. It's a bit more basic than Color Hunter, above, but sometimes that's just what you need. Just enter in the photo's URL from any place on the web and the generator will create a color scheme based on the photo.
ColorJack
ColorJack is an online generator that lets you hover over a color on the site's grid to see themes that use that color. You can select which format you want to see your color scheme in (hsv, rgb, or hex) and you can then export it to Illustrator, Photoshop, or ColorJack Studio. Other ColorJack tools include the Color Sphere and the Color Galaxy, which provide alternative UIs for generating color schemes. A Mac OSX widget is also available.
Daily Color Scheme
Daily Color Scheme is an "everyday color resource" that provides you with the color schemes used by other web sites like 9Rules, for example. Using those sites as inspiration, you can bookmark their schemes, download them in your preferred format, or import the schemes into your design program like Photoshop, Illustrator, or Topstyle.
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August 1st, 2008 - Posted in read write web | | Comments Off
SummerMash WAS Bigger in Texas!
Mashable just completed its fourth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour in Austin, Texas and it was great! Over 400 people joined us at Buffalo Billiards, where they played billiards, Guitar Hero, Xbox, and more. Not only that, there was amazing conversation, food and an open bar, which I’m sure helped set the mood for the evening.
Pete, Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins and I were amazed at everyone who came to SummerMash Austin. There is such a buzz in the community and it was great to bring everyone together for a shindig. We had a great time and from what we’re hearing, ya’ll did too.
Of course, we couldn’t have done SummerMash Austin without the support of all of our sponsors and media partners. Huge thanks to all of you! Major kudos to Stickam for live streaming the event. Make sure to check out the amazing videos they took.
You can see all the fun on Flickr (make sure to tag with MASHABLE). Huge thanks to photographers at the event, including Jessica Grieves, Michael Cummings and Wm. Marc Salsberry. We’ll have photos on Facebook soon and will let you know so you can tag them up!
We’re also on tour with SocialMediaCamp sponsored by Yoono and organized by Erica O’Grady. Stickam had the chance at SummerMash Seattle to sit down with Erica, the multi-talented Social Media expert:
You can check out this and all the other interviews from our SummerMash stops on upcoming 
Mashable Conversations episodes.
Check out the other cities on the U.S. Summer Tour:
Austin | Miami | Boston | New York City
Local Sponsor:
‘speakTECH provides User Experience and technical consulting for some of the top social networking companies in the world.’
‘Pluck: Empowering leading media companies, brands, and retailers with open content, community, and social networking to drive audience engagement.’
‘Small World Labs empowers organizations to harness the power of social media via our online community and social networking solutions.’
‘Mashery is the leading provider of on-demand API management solutions, enabling you to attract new partners, manage API access, monitor the distribution of your content, and measure success.’
*There are special Sponsorship opportunities available. For more info please contact: Brett and Karen at events [at] mashable |dot| com
Prize Sponsor:
‘Conjunctured is the first Austin coworking space and where the community comes to work, play, collaborate, and innovate.’
‘The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.’
Local Media Partner:
“Austin Tech Happy Hour has become the premier networking event for Austin technology professionals to share ideas, insights, and knowledge in a casual and fun environment.”
“Bernardo’s List is an email newsletter about upcoming events for entrepreneurs, investors and tech execs in New York and other cities nationwide. Signup is free at http://www.bernardoslist.com!”
‘Social Radius is an award-winning social media marketing firm, specializing in SEO/SMO, thought leadership platforms/social media creation, viral/syndication, outreach and strategy.’
‘Business Wire’s advanced XHTML feeds deliver more user-friendly news (like photos, linked keywords, advanced earnings tables and stylized text) to search engines, news systems and other audiences. Our SEO tools dial up visibility with social networkers and bloggers. Better be Business Wired.’
Tour Sponsors
The Sun(TM) Startup Essentials program is designed to help startup businesses off the ground by providing access to industry-leading systems at deep discounts, free world-class software and web-based training, discounts on partner hosting services, and more.
Yoono’s mission is to make the social web accessible, easy and fun for everyone. Its newly expanded service socializes your browser, helps you manage your digital life and brings the best of the web into one single browser-based application. Today, 1.3 million users are leveraging Yoono.
Yoono is hosting Social Media Camp at each tour stop which brings together the top local names in Blogging, Podcasting, Live Streaming, and New Media to participate in an open workshop about the power of social media.
MySites is a single place for all your online needs. You can create and customize a website, save and share any media, decide who can view it, embed anywhere, and use any device.
Touring Video Partner
Launched in February 2006, Stickam emerged as the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming. Stickam’s cutting edge technology delivers millions of streams each day, reaching over two million registered users. They are continuing on the path of social interactive TV by adding features that nurture its growing community and tech-savvy broadcasters. Whether you are famous for 15 or 150,000, Stickam.com is where you will find your friends and fans. See and be seen at Stickam.com, The Live Community.
Exclusive Ticketing Partner
“Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service online ticketing site. Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to sell-out an event.”
Online Community Partner
‘EventVue helps conference attendees meet the people that matter to them before they even arrive at an event.’
Tour Media Partner
“Thrillist is a free daily email that sifts through the crap to bring you the best of what your city’s hiding. Each day, you’ll get one quick email with info on the best food, drinks, gear, services, and events. Whatever it is, we promise it won’t suck. Get on the list.”
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Swanky cardboard cat lounger
A human at EMS Labs writes:
Although we don't claim to understand it, a cat that has installed itself in a cardboard box is a happy cat. You can exploit this mysterious fact to make a your own simple corrugated cardboard cat bed like this one, designed as a kitty-sized chaise lounge. Since it's just cardboard, it's also easy to modify this basic design to suit your own (or your cat's) taste.Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Paper Crafts | Digg this! Tags: digg, labs, make
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How to Measure Social Media ROI for Business
Social media measurement is one of those topics about which everyone has an opinion, but nobody agrees on the solution. The question about how to measure the return on investment (ROI) for social media participation comes up in every workshop I deliver, as definitive, statistic-based metrics seem to be the primary way communicators feel they can secure approval and budget for these programs from their management teams.
If you’re waiting for someone to provide that magic bean, then put away your watering can. It ain’t gonna happen. That’s one of the reasons why I tend to think that social media (by which I mean actual conversations and relationship building exercises, not widgets and Facebook fliers) is more aligned with the goals of a PR program than it is with marketing.
In the absence of any accepted metrics, businesses still need to be able to determine whether or not a social media program is moving the needle, moving product or otherwise making an impact. This largely depends on the company’s social media objectives. Because these dramatically differ based on the organization, it’s impossible to agree upon standards. That doesn’t mean we can’t measure ROI at the company level, though.
With that in mind, here are a few ways to consider measuring social media ROI for your business:
Qualitative
First, determine what you want to measure, whether it’s corporate reputation, conversations or customer relationships. These objectives require a more qualitative measurement approach, so let’s start by asking some questions. For example, if the objective is measure ROI for conversations, we start by benchmarking ourselves with questions like:
- Are we currently part of conversations about our product/industry?
- How are we currently talked about versus our competitors?
Then to measure success, we ask whether we were able to:
- Build better relationships with our key audiences?
- Participate in conversations where we hadn’t previously had a voice?
- Move from a running monologue to a meaningful dialogue with customers?
There are companies that offer services to assist with this kind of measurement, which requires a great deal of human analysis on top of the automated results to appropriately assess the tonality and brand positioning across various social media platforms.
Quantitative
If the goal is to measure traffic, sales or SEO ranking, we can take a more quantitative approach. There are some free tools that can help with this type of measurement, including:
AideRSS allows you to enter a feed URL and returns statistics about its posts, including which are the most popular based on how many times they are shared on a variety of social networking sites (Google, Digg, Del.icio.us).
Google Analytics and Feedburner are essential, free tools to help analyze your company’s blog traffic, subscriber count, keyword optimization and additional trends.
Xinu is a handy website where you can type in a URL and receive a load of useful statistics ranging from search engine optimization (SEO) to social bookmarking and more.
In addition, you might look at how many people join your social network (or become your connection) in a given period of time, how much activity there is in your forum or what the click-through rate is to your product pages from any of these platforms that result in direct sales.
Conclusion
The key takeaway, regardless of how your company chooses to measure engagement, is that you have a success metric in mind before you begin. Without some sort of benchmark, it’s impossible to determine your ROI.
As I said at the beginning, this topic is one that has been tossed around in the blogosphere for a long time and this is an overview. For further reading, I recommend you check out Katie Paine’s blog, where the conversation about social media measurement continues to evolve. And I’m sure there are many companies that would be happy to automate this process for you. Look for their thoughts below in the comments.
[Aaron Uhrmacher is a social media consultant. In addition to his posts on Mashable, he blogs at DISRUPTology.]
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Robotic furniture: The RoboStool
Steve sent in his latest project, the RoboStool. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip, and motor mount kit, to navigate in 3 different ways. It can use a "beacon" mode to navigate or be controlled via a universal remote. It can even be put in "follow" mode, which uses thermal sensing to follow the user around the house. [Thanks Steve!]
In a continuing effort to create unique and unusual robots I just completed RoboStool - a robotic foot stool. Where would such an idea as a robot foot stool come from? I'm not really sure but one day while waiting for my wife to finish shopping in a Bed Bath and Beyond (and totally bored of course) I spied the ultimate in tacky furniture - a cubed shaped foot stool covered in the finest of brown vinyl. At that moment it occurred to me that this foot stool was just begging to be automated. And thus began the RoboStool project.
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Streaming Live from SummerMash Austin
The second leg of the U.S. SummerMash Tour continues tonight in Austin, TX. Mashable is rocking out at Buffalo Billiards and we have the entire second floor to ourselves, which means all the Guitar Hero, Xbox, Wii Sports, Arcade Games, Foosball and Billiards you can handle. Mashable is represented tonight by Pete Cashmore, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and Karen Hartline, who have brought their “A” game, just for you. We’re also joined by our sponsors, Sun Startup Essentials, Yoono, mySites, speakTech, Mashery, Small World Labs and Pluck.
Can’t make the event? No problem. Check out the live stream from exclusive video partner Stickam (after the jump). They’re conducting interviews throughout the night and reporting on the happenings at the event.
Want to join us on tour? Check out the other cities on the U.S. Summer Tour:
Los Angeles | Miami | Boston | New York City
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Intel, HP, and Yahoo to build joint cloud-computing research labs
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Sure, it's all well and cute to think of "cloud computing" as being a magical data-fairy, but storing and processing all your fancy new CalDAV-enabled Google Calendar entries and MobileMe emails costs money, kid -- and that means it's hard for researchers to accurately simulate and build cloud research projects, since they don't have the resources to build large enough data centers. HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to alleviate that problem, though -- the three behemoths are going to build six cloud-computer research data centers around the world, stocked with anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 nodes each, with the goal of bringing them online later this year for pre-selected researchers to work on scaling, security, management, and new applications for the cloud. Three of the data centers will be hosted at HP, Intel, and Yahoo, and the other three will be at the the University of Illinois, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, and the Steinbuch Centre for Computing in Germany.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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July 29th, 2008 - Posted in Engadget | | Comments Off
Browzmi: A Social Browser in Your Browser
Social bookmarking has become a pretty standard activity these days, with the likes of Mento, Delicious, Mister Wong, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon offering numerous variations on this theme. Browzmi is taking a different approach from these services by focusing on real-time, collaborative web browsing and bookmarking, with chat being one of its main features. What is especially noteworthy is that Browzmi is not an extension, but basically a browser in a browser.
Browzmi was founded by Travis Parsons in 2006 and is currently being developed by a five person team. Browzmi has not taken any venture funding yet. Registration for Browzmi is open.
Surf With Friends
Browzmi allows you to surf the web with your friends. The core of Browzmi is made up of its bookmarking and sharing function, as well as the built-in IM. The chat function, as well as the real-time updates on the site, are enabled through an XMPP and Jabber back-end.
It's important to note right away that Browzmi is not a screen sharing application. While you can follow your friends around the web, you are not sharing the exact same experience with them and you don't see their mouse cursors moving around etc. Browzmi instead focuses on real-time sharing and discussion.
This concept, of course, is somewhat similar to that of Me.dium or Yoono. However, the interesting aspect of Browzmi is that it does not rely on extentions at all
Just Like a 'Real' Browser
The Browzmi interface mimics a regular browser, with a location bar and search form at the top, as well as sidebars on the left and right. Thanks to this, new users should feel right at home when opening up the application. There are also back and forth buttons, as well as a home button that takes you back to the Browzmi 'Everyone' page.
Once you surf to a site, you can comment on a page, favorite it, and make your opinions about it known by voting up or down on it. You can also 'clip' pictures from a site, making Browzmi a photo sharing application as well. All your actions on the site are saved in a stream that you and your friends can access and which looks somewhat like a stream in Friendfeed.
Sidebars
The sidebar on the left side of the screen ("My Stuff") is mostly reserved for seeing where your friends on Browzmi are right now. Thanks to the "Surf with Friends" feature, you can follow them around the web and chat with them. This sidebar is also where you can access your favorites (which basically function as bookmarks), see your activity stream, and see your friends' online status.
The right sidebar is called "Explore More" and it allows you to see where other users are on the service right now, as well as related content on Flickr, YouTube. Here, you can also see what other users who are not in your network have said about any given site.
Thanks to the XMPP back-end, all of your friends actions are being pushed to you instantaneously .
Privacy
When we first reviewed Me.dium, which offers a number of features similar to Browzmi, we were worried about the privacy implications of the service. Browzmi allows you to make your stream public or private, but any of your online activity through Browzmi does, of course, show on Browzmi and is available for viewing by your friends or (if you don't set the privacy features right) anybody. Given that users are probably quite aware that what they are doing is public - that is, after all, the whole point of the service - we are not too concerned about this, but it is still worth pointing out.
Coming Soon
Browzmi is currently working on adding number of additional features to the site, including allowing users to sign into the site with their AOL, Yahoo, or MSN credentials, which would allow everybody to chat with their IM friends right from Browzmi and also to invite them to surf the web with them. Integration with AOL's IM system will be announced in the next few weeks and the others should follow relatively soon after that.
Browzmi is also planning on allowing its users to comment on specific items on a site. This is something a few other bookmarking services already allow, but without allowing for real-time sharing.
The Browzmi team is also going to release an API in the future, which will allow developers to add widgets and customize the Browzmi experience.
Verdict
We were skeptical of Browzmi at first. Why, after all, would you need a browser within my browser? However, with the IM integration, its various RSS feeds, and straightforward surfing experience, Browzmi is actually a lot of fun to use. If you used it with Fluid or Mozilla's Prism, you could even make it your standard browser interface if you were so inclined. While that is probably not even Browzmi's intention, it does open up some interesting possibilities for the future.
In our tests, Browzmi worked very well and we didn't come across any bugs. For some sites, where Browzmi might be problematic, you can download a Firefox extension, but in our tests, we never needed it.
Browzmi, like most similar services based on social interactions, is going to get more useful as more users start joining and as your list of friends growths. In many ways, it is complementary to other services like Friendfeed, in that it gives you an option for real-time sharing and discussion, while you can also import most of your Browzmi actions to other services through Browzmi's RSS feeds.
Once Browzmi adds more IM services, we think that it can grow quite rapidly and organically, as there will be zero friction for new sign-ups.
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July 29th, 2008 - Posted in read write web | | Comments Off
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments #1 in Chemistry on Amazon
The other day, Gareth pointed to Kevin Kelly's review of our Chemistry book "The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments," and we've been watching the popularity of the book rise as more people find out about it. Of course, we're happy that people are buying the book, but we're thrilled that people are so interested in making their own home chemistry labs.
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July 29th, 2008 - Posted in make | | Comments Off
Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity
Repton writes with news of a company, Behavioral Recognition Systems, that has received 16 patents on a new video surveillance application that can convert video images into machine-readable language, and then analyze them for anomalies that suggest suspicious behavior in the camera's field of view. The software can 'recognize' up to 300 objects and establish a baseline of activity. It should go on sale in September. "...the BRS Labs technology will likely create a fair number of false positives, [the CEO] concedes. 'We think a three-to-one ratio of alerts to actual events is what the market will accept,' he says. 'We could be wrong.'"
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Junk guitar class: still spots left
Want to make an electric guitar from junk? Ranjit will teach you. There are still some spots left in his Electric Junk Guitar class Etsy labs in Brooklyn on The 30th (Wednesday). Sign up here!
The electric guitar is a sophisticated and highly evolved instrument. But, you can make your own out of a few bucks worth of junk and parts. Learn to wind your own guitar pickups and build them into a simple one- or two-string junk guitar with a surprisingly nice sound. Depending on your ambition and experience, you can make your junk guitar as simple or as sophisticated as you want, but everybody is guaranteed to go home with at least a fun twangy noisemaker.
Electric Junk Guitar Class
July 30, 2008
6:30-9pm
Etsy Labs, 325 Gold Street 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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- Wind-powered string plucker
- Sax-a-ma-phoooone
- Coconut banjo
- Box organ + breath controller
- Matchbox Synthesizer
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Retro ThingamaHat
In response to my posting of the hat-i-fied version of the Bleep Labs' ThingamaKIT, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder emailed me this cover from a 1949 Hugo Gernsbeck pub, Radio - Electronics. Thanks, Mark!
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July 28th, 2008 - Posted in make | | Comments Off
Thingamakit synthesizer toy from Bleep Labs
Bleep Labs, maker of the Thingamagoop musical robot is selling a kit to make your own light- and knob-controlled music synthesizer. Only $65 for the complete kit with metal enclosure.
Thingamakit synthesizer toy from Bleep Labs
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Thingamakit synthesizer toy from Bleep Labs
Bleep Labs, maker of the Thingamagoop musical robot is selling a kit to make your own light- and knob-controlled music synthesizer. Only $65 for the complete kit with metal enclosure.
Thingamakit synthesizer toy from Bleep Labs
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