People with Verizon service, and those of us who just can’t seem to switch over to AT&T for the iPhone might have something from Verison that rivals the iPhone. It’s called the DROID, it runs Google’s Android and it seems to have everything that the latest iPhone has and more… except for 100,000 apps. (it has about 10,000). It is scheduled to release on November 6th 2009 – and I am excited to see it first hand. It’s tough to tell what the design of it is really like from a picture, but nonetheless the design looks good!
Google has released it’s social search. So what exactly is this? It is all explained in this video from Google. It’s quite simple, and combines search from Google with your social networks and all the people you are connected with by displaying their posts and reviews right in Google search results. So let’s say I Google web design in New York City, and one of my connections on any of the social networks I am subscribed to has posted something relating to web design in New York then that will show up in my results page.
So many people have been creating videos that try and depict what Google Wave can do, some of it’s features and how we will be using it soon… I have been waiting to post about it until I found something that told the story well. And this one gives a bit of a laugh, but also shows it’s capability pretty well (I think ’cause I’ve never seen it)
Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.
Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.
