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Video of bionic exoskeleton
Here's what Chris Tagatac uses to move around. He's totally paralyzed below his belly. This robot helps him walk.
More on this exoskeleton and Chris at https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/1s6Z74Qr1gQ
Robert Scoble
Another great mobile design resource:
PortKit shows you each Cocoa UI Element in iOS 6 / iOS 7 and its Android widget version, side by side, so you can compare and find the correct equivalent when porting an app. We develop Native iPhone Applications and Native Android Applications and wanted a simple way to visualize, reference and compare UI elements, and have quick access to documentation and the respective naming conventions.
http://kintek.com.au/blog/portkit-ux-metaphor-equivalents-for-ios-and-android/
#ios6 #ios7 #android #ux #resources
Chris Messina
Here's how Chris's bionic exoskeleton works and lets him walk around. More at https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/1s6Z74Qr1gQ
By the way, because this is an experimental device he needs a "spotter" who is a physical therapist just to make sure nothing goes wrong. Plus, the government won't let this be used alone yet until it gets more proven.
#throughglass
Robert Scoble
Meet Chris Tagatac: the first contextual bionic man?
Meet Chris Tagatac. Three years ago he fell off his roof which paralyzed him beneath his belly button. So, how was he walking around the Half Moon Bay Ritz today?
Easy, he was wearing an Ekso Bionics Exoskeleton. More about that at http://www.eksobionics.com/ekso
This exoskeleton, through a combination of about 30 sensors, a few motors, and some cloud computing, helps him get out of his wheelchair and walk around.
He's a delightful human being who is grateful to be here, and be able to walk around while wearing his $110,000 exoskeleton, which is mostly used to help him keep his body in shape, but he says it's life changing because he can look me in the eye and get mobility he can only dream of while in his wheelchair.
We talked about the future of technology that can help him live a better life. He liked the Google Glass, because while wearing the exoskeleton he has to keep his hands on the controls (he pushes buttons to tell his skeleton to sit, walk, or make other movements) and Glass would let him do things without needing his hands.
Today his skeleton only understands one context: flat hard ground. Tomorrow? The sensors might understand he's on sand or grass and help him walk on those surfaces. Also, today he needs to push buttons. We can see a way to use a brain sensor so he could simply think about walking forward, the way we all do, and his exoskeleton would comply.
Yes, this is expensive but within a decade I expect these to cost less than $1,000 and be usable by not just more people but for more hours a day (his batteries last about three hours, then need a one-hour charge and his body can't take more than a couple of hours at a time anyway.
Oh, and while at the Ritz tonight I talked with many people about the downsides of government technology. Yes, the NSA can spy on us and DARPA pays to develop robots like this to help soldiers be more effective (including things like Google Glass) but I enjoy seeing military technology used to help people's lives.
I have seen no clearer example than Chris. What an inspiration!
UPDATE: here's another set of photos that show how he walked around the Half Moon Bay Ritz with his device: https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/CUWRtUKeQs6
I'm not really sure who is first, but there aren't many of these exoskeletons in the world, by the way.
On Facebook he wrote that they are working on stem cell treatments that might bear fruit for him within five to seven years. This suit, he writes, keeps his muscles and body ready for when the cure is found: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.tagatac?fref=ts
Video of Chris walking around the Half Moon Bay Ritz is at https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/isb23nbdWLN Thanks to +Bloomberg News for bringing Chris to the Half Moon Bay Ritz (my backyard, since I live walking distance away).
Robert Scoble
Why doesn't Google Glass do THIS?
Atheer Labs is showing me a prototype of a wearable computer that goes way beyond Google Glass. How?
It has two displays. It has a 3D interface. It has a sensor that lets you gesture to the UI. It does augmented reality.
So, why doesn't Google Glass do this?
A few reasons:
1. Cost. I'm quite convinced that +Sergey Brin knows that the price for Google Glass needs to be a few hundred dollars. Even $500 is too much if you want to go to the mass market. Adding a second screen will add too much to the cost.
2. Weight. The smart people on the Glass team did a lot of research and found that only a couple hundred grams is OK, but more than that "bugs people." Adding bigger batteries, bigger processors, more screens, etc, will make it too heavy for using it all day long.
3. Distraction. Google's Glass team found that if they put a screen between you and the world you can make cool things happen, but you GREATLY increase the chances that you'll get in a wreck while driving, or walk into a pole, or something like that.
4. Freaky factor. If you wear Glass you already know it is a pretty freaky product. But most people settle down as they realize you look at them and they can see when you are paying attention to Glass because you have to look up (and you see a light on in the projector/prism). Systems that put screens between me and you will be FAR more freaky.
5. Battery life. Battery life on Glass is pretty short (I get an entire day out of them, but if I turn on the projector, while recording a video, etc, the battery doesn't last long at all). If you want to put even more electronics onto Glass you've gotta put bigger batteries on, too, which increases weight and cost.
That said, listen to my interview with Atheer's founder. These "Glass competitors" will have LOTS of "vertical market" uses that Glass just won't be good at. For instance, if you are a surgeon you need a much better screen and UI than Glass has (and you'll be very willing to pay more than $1,000 for a system that helps you do things in the surgery room).
One reason I like meeting startups that are pushing the future ahead is because here we'll see what features might come in the future. New kinds of UIs. New kinds of experiences. I could see having two pairs of wearable computers, for instance. One like Google Glass that I wear around town and one like Atheer Labs is building to play video games or do training videos or other things.
Learn more at http://www.atheerlabs.com/
Robert Scoble
Another awesome Kickstarter project — The Question Block Lamp
The videogame inspired, interactive lamp for your inner geek, gamer and child.
http://kck.st/17jKhCf
/cc +Jonathan Terleski via +Gregor Hochmuth #gifts
Chris Messina
Andreessen Horowitz proves Klout score and huge follower numbers don't matter
Let's say you are the coolest venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road. http://a16z.com/ is. Most of my entrepreneur friends say that A16z is the best, right now.
So, when A16z wanted to hire someone to develop its social media and content strategies, did it go to someone with a great Klout score? No.
Did it go to someone who had millions of followers? Someone with a high Klout score, like me? No. (His score is 50, which will undoubtedly go up now). He has 3,000 followers on Twitter, as of this writing. Not many in the overall scheme of things. Most writers on my tech news lists have more.
Who did it go with? Someone who can tell a story. Michael Copeland, former senior editor at Wired. His Twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/MVC
Why?
Well, I can make some guesses.
1. They didn't want someone with a huge ego who wouldn't serve their brand well or who would clash with partners, who have much more power than a simple "content guy." (It would be embarrassing if such a person got fired within a few months because they didn't integrate into the culture well).
2. They didn't want to pay for someone who had a well-established distribution network. Think about the millions of dollars it would take to get someone like Leo Laporte, for instance. For A16z they know they can build their own distribution network fast (IE get followers) because of the unique access to people, startups, and ideas, that they have.
3. They needed someone who knows the journalism rules. Knows how to keep quiet since A16z has a LOT of secret meetings with VIPs, board members of various companies, etc.
4. Needed someone the rest of us story teller types would look up to and be happy to invite over for tea at the Ritz, etc. etc.
5. Needed someone who had a good pedigree (hey, name another person who has been on the inside of Wired Magazine for years).
6. Needed someone with unquestionable communication skills.
AKA they needed someone with a good "cultural fit." (Which is how we hire at +Rackspace, funny enough).
Add that all up and A16Z didn't care if someone was famous on the Internet, etc.
But this is a HUGE blow for Klout. Klout is all about recognizing online influence. I guarantee that Michael has more influence than I do, for instance (sorry, a Senior Editor at Wired can do a lot more for your startup than I could). Both offline and on. Yet Klout's algorithms can't recognize that.
A16Z is smart and knows there are "low score" individuals out there who are worth hiring. Might also explain why Andreessen hasn't put money into Klout, either: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/klout
Shows that anyone who thinks you can hire just by Klout score isn't quite thinking through the problem very well.
What do you think? Does this hurt Klout in your eyes?
Great hire!
Robert Scoble
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Chris Brogan
Google Developers Live Turns One
#gdl #developers
Today, Google Developers Live (+GDL) marks its first birthday. Since launch just before Google I/O 2012, we've seen nearly a thousand developer facing events from engineers and developer advocates from practically every team in Google, connecting with developers around the world. This is an exciting achievement and we're just getting started. Hope to see you join us in studio soon.
Louis Gray
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Sean Cowen
You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix
READ: http://bit.ly/11Zu2p8
Photo credit: Getty Images
Chris Messina
+19 - 2 shares - 10 comments
Simple has become a choice, an option, a desire
I'm all about simple. You?
Chris Brogan
Love these Hipster DC Girls by +Elizabeth Beals! Check out more of her work here:
http://elizabethbeals.deviantart.com/
Or buy prints of these for $15 each:
http://society6.com/ElizabethBealsPrints?promo=9ccbb3
/via +Aaron Wood #comics #illustration #hipster
Chris Messina
Video: Here's a short 18 minute video that summarizes what the Collaborative Economy means to corporations.
This speech is designed to: Define what the disruption is, give examples, put numbers behind the economic impact, identify the market drivers, and most importantly, present the Value Chain which clearly tells how corporations can leverage this movement --and avoid disruption.
This was the first time I had presented our research in public, if you found it helpful, please share with folks at corporations, or agencies and software companies that serve them.
Jeremiah Owyang - Altimeter Group - LeWeb London 2013!
Jeremiah Owyang
The Author Revolution
There is a secret in this excellent slideshare from +Mark Traphagen SMX West presentation - the Author Revolution. If we think of Google's recent moves in aggregate we see a macro-pattern.
Google wants their democratic engine to work. Democracy can't work if votes can be bought or when votes are otherwise fraudulent (intimidation, or being more crafty and sneaky). The web has always been about the push and pull of opposing forces.
I've had fascinating conversations with "black hat" cowboys who defend their actions as policing the system. There may be some truth in their assertion since they work just as hard as white hats (sometimes harder).
When I point out the fact they work just as hard they agree and identify their "rebel cause" as motivation. It is not a lazy man's way to make a million bucks (black hat tactics), and their actions have exposed weakness in Google's democracy such as:
* Links without sentiment aren't truth.
* Content without authorship isn't truth.
* Knowing more about Google isn't truth.
This last bullet is the one Google is attacking with Panda's new "over optimization" penalties. I welcome the change. The "Author Revolution" reallocates time. Time we used to spend understanding Google can be directed toward saving the world or some other task.
Even if we use the time to do one of my least favorite activities such as doing laundry or paying bills our time, our most valuable grant, is better spent than teasing the intricacies of our mathematical Internet marketing rules.
We Don't Know What We Don't Know
While this not knowing is our perpetual state in this instance we are under estimating the impact of #Google #authorship . This "quiet revolution" throws more change at us then we seem to realize.
As a Director of Ecommerce we depended on reviews and we owned reviews provided. In the not too distant future the smarter move will be to RENT reviews. The smart move will be to tag reviews by Google authors.
Lawyers will say NO to the idea because ownership is important. If you correctly tag my review on your website maybe I ask for royalty payments. Given how dependent e-com is on reviews sharing some of the wealth those reviews create is a good idea.
AND the Internet has all kinds of "wealth". By correctly tagging reviews with Google authorship credit is shared and granted where it belongs (back to the reviewer). The website wise enough to take that action will have the most valuable reviews online.
The future of the web and commerce on the web is about becoming comfortable with less and less control and more sharing. Google has a way of getting what they want.
Google wanted content so now we are all content marketers. Google wants collaborative competition and to reward content creators so the author revolution is here and NOW as Mark shares so conclusively here.
Thomas Power
When Are We Going to Make Education a Priority for Our Fundamental Freedoms ?
"Very few high-achieving students from low-income households end up even applying to a selective college."
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"This is how the American Dream ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper of elite school applications by poor kids."
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"We know that daycare is a disaster in the U.S. now, and that top-notch pre-K can make lasting impacts."
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"Early cognitive development has long-lasting consequences that can leave less-lucky children behind from the moment they start school—and keep them there."
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"It’s less clear why higher education isn’t more of a path to prosperity for low-income children."
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"Ask anyone about inequality, and you’re likely to hear three words in response: education, education, education. Oh, and education."
I'm anyone and may I add to this my own word in response, education .
(My own "Critical History of the University" is here:
http://www.synaptiqplus.com/journal/journal_-articles/issue-2/a-critical-history-of-the-university-part-one
Meg Tufano
A fortune in severed bear paws found being smuggled into China
Read more: http://nbcnews.to/1bRIFwa
Photo: Reuters
Jeremiah Owyang
This could be big.
To Be provides a space and a set of tools to compose with all the senses of the internet, in a setting as private or open as you want. Where creators and dreamers can make things together for themselves, for others, for everyone.
Open a field, drop in images, add songs, paint something, invite a friend or two, find new meaning and make it yours.
http://tobe.us/
/via +John Borthwick #design #art #nycstartup #tobeus
video source: https://vimeo.com/67344412
Chris Messina
How About if The Person You Have to 'Lean On' Doesn't Have a Job That is Fungible ?
How can you 'lean in' when you don’t have someone to lean on?
There are two main lines of criticism. The first is that Sandberg unfairly blames women when she argues that they need to change the way they behave in the workplace to better position themselves for leadership roles. The second is that her advice applies only to an elite circle of women.
Although she says that she is writing “for any woman who wants to increase her chances of making it to the top,” she acknowledges that “the vast majority of women are struggling to make ends meet” and offers the caveat that “parts of this book will be most relevant to women fortunate enough to have choices about how much and when and where to work.”
And our own +Giselle Minoli weighs in here:
http://www.synaptiqplus.com/journal/journal_-articles/issue-2/a-woman-s-de-liberation-there-never-was-a-sexual-revolution
Meg Tufano
Studies show that about 30 percent of the cost increases in higher education over the past twenty-five years have been the result of administrative growth
Massive Open Online Administrations!
MOOAs!
"Ginsberg noted. He suggested that MOOA can reverse this spending growth. "Currently, hundreds, even thousands, of vice provosts and assistant deans attend the same meetings and undertake the same activities on campuses around the U.S. every day," he said. "Imagine the cost savings if one vice provost could make these decisions for hundreds of campuses." http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2013/06/forget_moocslets_use_mooa.html#sthash.owxG8gpK.dpuf
Meg Tufano
Do yourself a favor, go watch this video. It's only a few minutes long and you're going to feel better about almost everything when you get done. Write back to let me know if it moved you.
Meg Tufano
Video: Here's a short 18 minute video that summarizes what the Collaborative Economy means to corporations.
This speech is designed to: Define what the disruption is, give examples, put numbers behind the economic impact, identify the market drivers, and most importantly, present the Value Chain which clearly tells how corporations can leverage this movement --and avoid disruption.
This was the first time I had presented our research in public, if you found it helpful, please share with folks at corporations, or agencies and software companies that serve them.
Jeremiah Owyang - Altimeter Group - LeWeb London 2013!
Thomas Power
Amazing Twitter metadata maps: http://trib.al/pyJ20yq
Twitter's full data stream--their “firehose”--is full of metadata which discloses personal, geographic, and technological information on Twitter's tens of millions of users. Gnip, one of the best known Twitter firehose resellers, just turned a raw sample of metadata from 280 million tweets into an amazing example of data visualization.
#maps #design #travel #tech #twitter #metadata #nyc
Chris Messina
New MONSTROSITY! The WATCH DOGS game trailer is a violent hacker's dream, Marvel Comic's full movie lineup through 2016 (can you say "Ant-Man," FFS?), and AFTER EARTH's box-office numbers paint it as an official bomb for Will Smith and M. Knight Shyamalan. WATCH DOGS trailer rocks, MARVEL's movie lineup, & AFTER EARTH officially crashes.
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Chris Brogan
Ooooh, very fun article, with EXCELLENT chart, via +Brad Ovenell-Carter - http://ht.ly/mc4AJ - Social Media and Storytelling Part II: Back to the Future
Jeff Jockisch
Bid on time to work with me, support Liz Strauss' medical expenses to treat her cancer.
Brian Solis
To learn more about Influence Marketing by +Danny Brown and +Sam Fiorella, stop by Spin Sucks at noon ET today to ask Danny questions live.
Gini Dietrich
Ooooh, very fun article, with EXCELLENT chart, via +Brad Ovenell-Carter - http://ht.ly/mc4AJ - Social Media and Storytelling Part II: Back to the Future
Meg Tufano
This is the right theme for your local market around where you live to go with real time contact, sharing, swapping, trading and perhaps dealmaking on your doorstep ...clearly a future role for FB/G+ I am pleased to see these apps emerging. I'm sceptical about flirting and dating as that's so shallow and has a pervy creepy edge to it that causes disdain. Business is different we all do business.
...article here
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/24/50m-matches-strong-hot-mobile-dating-app-tinder-is-ready-to-go-global-and-move-beyond-flirting/ I know +Jeremiah Owyang will be pleased too
Thomas Power
It all starts with a single neuron - we're still trying to unravel the mysteries of the brain
John Hagel
Privacy vs. Security
Where is the line? IDK.
The U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior government officials testified Tuesday.
Meg Tufano
Brilliant video. Past the technique , which is amazing, are thr lyrics. Could this be a song about entrepreneurship? Dpression?
Francine Hardaway
Video of bionic exoskeleton
Here's what Chris Tagatac uses to move around. He's totally paralyzed below his belly. This robot helps him walk.
More on this exoskeleton and Chris at https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/1s6Z74Qr1gQ
Jeremiah Owyang
NEW POST: The many forms of transaction in the Collaborative Economy: Rent, Subscribe, Lend, Gift, Swap, and Co-Own are new business models beyond selling your company must consider.
The sharing revolution is an unstoppable movement. To avoid disruption, corporations must adopt the Collaborative Economy Value Chain.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2013/06/19/the-many-forms-of-transaction-in-the-collaborative-economy/
Jeremiah Owyang
Socrates had it right - it's all about scaling edges
John Hagel
Sadly they are not mine to take home
#googleglass
Alan Lepofsky
Ten Things Google Knows to Be True
I hadn't seen this before until someone pointed me to it today. Fascinating to see how these ten values are being worked out through Google+.
Meg Tufano
Love these Hipster DC Girls by +Elizabeth Beals!
/via +Aaron Wood #comics #illustration #hipster
Chris Messina
Some pictures from my trip to #Google
Alan Lepofsky
This is the most brilliantly hilarious use of Pinterest, ever.
Ann Handley
Across Silicon Valley, quiet contemplation seen as new caffeine - spread of meditation to focus in always-on cultures
John Hagel
Artist Juliëtte van Bavel
http://www.synaptiqplus.com/journal/journal_-articles/issue-2/table-of-contents
Meg Tufano
HUGE congratulations to +bre pettis and the +MakerBot team!
C.C. Chapman
Game on!
Geoff Livingston
A NEW podcast episode? YES!
+Greg Friese shares with us the everyday athletes of the Emergency Medical Services world. You'll have some fun with this!
Chris Brogan
Universities, non-profits, governmental agencies, and Extension systems must embrace the principles of the Connected Organization in order to thrive in the future.
Join noted author and speaker +Dave Gray to learn how the principles of The Connected Company can be applied to institutions and organizations such as Extension. Gray, who will be the keynote speaker at the National eXtension Conference 2014 will talk about why, to keep pace with today’s connected citizens, your University, Extension system, Governmental agency, or non-profit must become a connected organization.
Being connected means being deeply engaged with faculty, staff, partners, and clientele, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your organization: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time.
Connected organizations have the advantage, because they learn and move faster than their competitors. While others work in isolation, they link into rich networks of possibility and expand their influence.
Please join in learning how we can begin to transition Extension and others to being connected organizations. This is the first of three online sessions leading up to a dynamic conversation about the future of Extension to be held at the 3rd National eXtension Conference next March in Sacramento, California.
Please use the comments section to ask questions and share insights.
#nexc2014-dave-gray
Dave Gray
Creative innovation products http://www.toxel.com/
Jeremiah Owyang
Shining a light on the great work that the +Life is good Playmakers do.
C.C. Chapman
Connecting the Edges- synthesis of Aspen Institute roundtable discussion on role of edges in business
John Hagel
Making space for joy - wonderful ode to feminine space by +Marjory Mejia - shapes that engage our emotions and invite flow http://bitly.com/19j0dSJ
John Hagel
This looks like a good webinar.
Lynne d Johnson
My slides from#shrm13 arguing social is a transformed perspective on HR and will be the future of the profession. I included some tweets from other sessions which worked well, and was nicely social I thought. But the last tweet on rewards in the new social world which I think was my favourite on the topic came from #e2conf not #shrm - I think IT are still leading HR on social collaboration!
Jon Ingham
Wild!
Geoff Livingston
Calling all members of the SAP Community!
Please share your thoughts in our annual survey.
Mark Yolton
This report on "the state of community management" by The Community Roundtable provides authoritative research and findings on the value and management practices for online virtual communities.
Mark Yolton
Working on @enterasys 2013-2014 Social Strategy document. #excited
Bilal Jaffery
Dachis GroupDaily Circles check it out
| Name | Author | Members |
|---|---|---|
Austrian Photographers |
54 | |
Finnish active people and Pages circle |
111 | |
Google Developers GTUG |
152 | |
Super Science Circle |
220 | |
Photography Newbies |
100 | |
Food, Beer, and Wine Circle |
165 | |
Social SEO |
25 | |
Google+ Pages and interesting people |
241 | |
Android Pages |
31 | |
Banken und Finanzen |
170 | |
Think different: the interaction circle |
200 | |
Play Ball! Baseball |
31 | |
some great people |
501 | |
experts in social business |
90 | |
Writer's Circle |
99 | |
Science Circle |
300 | |
Google Services |
48 | |
Daily Fine Art |
199 |
Rznag Rmrod
Jaana Nyström
Nils Hitze (Kojote)
Fraser Cain
Dante Duphorne
Chris Robinson
Mark Traphagen
Thomas Morffew
Daniel Bödger
Max Huijgen
Google+
Thomas Power
Meg Tufano
Gideon Rosenblatt
Siegfried Hirsch
Charles Lupica