Infographic: Using 2 Million Instagram Pics to Map a City’s Visual Signature Liz Stinson, wired.com How can Instagram data visualize the cultural patterns and trends of a city? http://flip.it/SSmQP Related articles Brilliant example of Infographic (santhoshkrishnanblog.wordpress.com)
Canon reinvents video focusing with the fiercely fast EOS 70D (hands-on) Hands-on Zach Honig, engadget.com Looking to capture professional-quality video on the cheap? You’ve probably considered a DSLR, but for many users, an interchangeable-lens camera might not be the best pick. Camcorders and higher-end video rigs typically offer far more… http://flip.it/AlyHW
JVC’s upgraded GC-XA2 ADIXXION action camera is really, really hard to put down HD Darren Murph, engadget.com Look, we all know someone suffering from an insatiable appetite for [insert vice here]. But if you’ve ever met someone who picked up the OG ADIXXION, you probably understand just how fixated on a single product one can … Continue reading JVC action cam
Don’t Listen To Your Customers—Watch Them By: David Zax, fastcompany.com The dating site Zoosk better serves users by analyzing their behavior on the site rather than by listening to what they say. "It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want," Steve Jobs famously said. Jobs was talking about products that… http://flip.it/OcDu8 Related articles … Continue reading Don’t listen to your customers, watch them
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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: RAW Video In the Palm of Your Hand for $1000 Michael Hession, gizmodo.com The film/videomaking world was set aflame last year when Blackmagic Design announced its Cinema Camera. It looks like the rogues are back for more with a RAW-shooting, $1000 video camera that fits in your pocket.Filmmaker John Brawley, Blackmagic’… … Continue reading Blackmagic pocket video cinema cam
Panasonic introduces DMC-G6 and DMC-LF1 cameras Simon Crisp, gizmag.com Panasonic has added two new cameras to its 2013 line-up, the Lumix DMC-G6 and the Lumix DMC-LF1. The G6 is a DSLR-like mid-range mirrorless shooter with a 16 megapixel sensor, while the LF1 is a high-end compact with a built-in electronic viewfind… http://flip.it/wphiG Related articles Panasonic … Continue reading Panasonic g6: good video, reasonable price
What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem Om Malik, gigaom.com A few weeks after Ken Lerer quit AOL-owned Huffington Post to work on his venture fund Lerer Ventures, I stopped by in his office to catch up and talk about the New York landscape. And during our conversation, he pointed out that New … Continue reading Tumblr and NYC ecosystem
Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office Laura Hazard Owen, gigaom.com Yahoo’s already had a busy Monday, what with that little $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition, but the company had a few more announcements to make at a press conference Monday afternoon in New York. It’s … Continue reading Flickr now comes with 1 TB of data free
Times Have Changed. Your Resume Needs To Change, Too. Rob Asghar, forbes.com The professional resume is said to go back to five centuries ago, as yet another innovation by Leonardo da Vinci . During our own lifetimes, it’s been a staple of the Age of Bureaucracy, designed to be a bland and standardized… Times Have … Continue reading The resume is dead
How Big Data Is Rewriting Hollywood Scripts By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Ever wonder why all movies seem to look the same? Yeah, there’s a reason. I honestly can’t tell horror movies apart. From set and costume design to the trailers that all seem to have the same…tempo…of…HE’S RIGHT THERE, OMG!!—novelty has… How Big Data Is … Continue reading Big data is distrupting Hollywood scriptwriting
How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler? This week, Adobe announced that the Creative Suite was becoming the subscription-based Creative Cloud. It didn’t go so well. But amidst the bad news, we ma… … Continue reading Adobe redesigns a pen to draw on the Internet
Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing By: Sam Harrison, fastcompany.com When former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki submitted what he believed was a perfect manuscript to a professional copyeditor, the editor found 1,500 errors. So he knows a thing or two (or 1,500) about how to self-publish the right way. Read on … Continue reading The rise of artisanal publishing
Steve Jobs, Nate Silver, And Pablo Picasso: Why The Most Creative People Are Generalists By: Drake Baer, fastcompany.com The compelling case for why a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise spur innovation. In the summer of 1982 a 27-year-old Steve Jobs accepted an award at the Academy of Achievement. During his brief speech, … Continue reading Steve Jobs, Pablo Picasso, Nate Silver: why the most creative people are generalists
Kickstarting: An App That Turns Your Digital Photos Into Hyperactive Music Videos By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Eternal Light lets you actually do something with all those snapshots you’ve amassed over the years. The great thing about having good cameras on our smartphones isn’t necessarily that we can take pictures whenever the inspiration… Kickstarting: An App … Continue reading External light converts all of your pics into music videos
Get a 27-inch AOC LED monitor for $199.99 by Rick Broida, cnet.com With its HDMI input and built-in speakers, this monitor works just as well with game consoles and media players as it does with PCs. Nothing beats a big monitor. Got spreadsheets? Gotta go big. Going tomb raiding (see bonus deal)? Gotta go… Get … Continue reading 27 inch AOC LED monitor for $199
Sony announces new waterproof Handycam Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Sony’s new everything-proof Actioncam is definitely a worthy opponent to the likes of the GoPro HERO, although sometimes people just want a user-friendly video camera that can go in the water. Well, that’s where the Sony Handycam HDR-GW66VE comes… Sony announces new waterproof Handycam http://flip.it/6ki0X http://flip.it/crE4v
ProScope Micro Mobile lets your iPhone get mega-close-ups Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Optics manufacturer Bodelin is no stranger to hand-held microscopes, having previously brought us a series that can be connected to the USB port of a laptop. Given that smartphones are in many ways replacing laptops, however, it shouldn’t come as … ProScope Micro Mobile … Continue reading ProScope micro mobile iPhone mega close ups
Visualization startup Datahero opens its doors and delivers data analysis for the masses Derrick Harris, gigaom.com When I first met Datahero Co-founder Chris Neumann a year ago, I was pretty excited about what he claimed his new company was going to do. Essentially, he told me, it was going to offer a simple, cloud-based data … Continue reading Data hero: visualization startup cloud based analysis
Slickdeals’ best in tech for April 24th: 29-inch Dell UltraSharp 21:9 LED monitor and more Billy Steele, engadget.com Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this roundup, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want … Continue reading Slickdeals best in tech: Dell ultrasharp monitor
Watch the first footage from Blackmagic’s Pocket Cinema Camera (video) Steve Dent, engadget.comNoted Blackmagic Design shooter John Brawley has released the first footage from the company’s upcoming $995 Pocket Cinema Camera that might leave your DSLR green with envy. Though it’s always tough to judge compressed web footage, to …Watch the first footage from Blackmagic’s … Continue reading Blackmagic pocket cinema camera footage
The 10 Best Freelance Careers David Hochman, forbes.com The 10 Best Freelance Careers http://flip.it/TnJBx http://flip.it/Bkunz Related articles The freelance life, redux (cjr.org) So, I heard you quit your job? (capitalisinghumans.com) The Many Pitfalls of Freelancing (lifehack.org) Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters (oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com) Airbnb for freelancers and business people. #oipd (webnu.wordpress.com) How … Continue reading The best freelance careers
The MeCam: A GoPro for Non-Athletes? core77.com GoPro-captured footage is awesome, allowing us non-extreme-athletes to witness POV footage from amazing perspectives we’d likely never otherwise see. It allows the recording athlete to document a thrilling act that they’ve accomplished, and share … http://flip.it/Xt1kl Related articles Grizzly Bear Eats Dude's GoPro (unofficialnetworks.com) WATCH: Grizzly Tries to … Continue reading MeCam: a GoPro for non athletes?
Where will all the hipsters go? ghanscom, grist.org ShutterstockGreat minds think alike. And so it was that this weekend the country’s two most prestigious daily newspapers both brought us stories of how sleepy, prosperous suburbs of their respective cities are developing hip downtowns with all the… Where will all the hipsters go? http://flip.it/VqbKA http://flip.it/zKi9S Related … Continue reading Hipsturbia: creatives move out of overpriced NYC, Brooklyn and up the Hudson River
slaskow, grist.org On average, in America, it takes a person 25.4 minutes to get to work. But averages elide so much wonderful, painful information about location and the burden of commuting. Information that this map, put together by WNYC, lets you explore in… http://flip.it/MRPyk We’re addicted to this map of average commute times in … Continue reading We’re addicted to this map of average commute times in the U.S.
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