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"....what Shazam is really excited about is television, which it sees as a bigger opportunity than music, executives said. The company has embarked on a flurry of deals with networks like MTV and Syfy and advertisers like Old Navy (see screenshot above).
Select TV programs and ads now encourage viewers to “Shazam” them, using the audio recognition features of Shazam apps in order to receive bonus content and discounts. With 140 million built-in users, early deals have shown impressive results. (You can see examples of what the integrations look like on Shazam’s YouTube channel.)
Shazam joins a growing list of companies trying to get viewers to “check in” on the Web while watching TV. IntoNow, which also uses audio recognition to identify TV programs, sold to Yahoo in April for about $22 million....".
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"A former Stanford PhD student is promising a camera that "will forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures".
The Lytro camera is unique in allowing the photographer to focus after they have taken their image, change from 2D to 3D views and shift the perspective of the scene. Hit this link, to experiment yourself with some images.
It was designed around a concept called Light Field Capture. The Lytro team explains this as "the amount of light traveling in every direction through every point in space -- [or] all the light rays in a scene". Conventional cameras take the light ray information and collate it into "a single amount of light", which then hits the film or sensor..."
"Tomorrow, JK Rowling will end a week of speculation by revealing details about her mysterious new Harry Potter-themed site, Pottermore.com.
Currently a mere holding page, featuring the word "Pottermore", it has had fans frantically guessing what could be in store for them. Wired.co.uk has gathered together the leading theories.
Wired.co.uk has gathered together the leading theories:
Encyclopaedia..."
"At Coachella 2011, Chris Milk, with the help of Arcade Fire and a bunch of beachballs, turned the summer into dust.
Where did your Summer Into Dust beachball go?
We want to know where your beachball ended up. Send photos, stories, or videos of your beachball, or your experience at the show, to summerintodust@thecreatorsproject.com."
"Conditional Design
A manifesto for artists and designers.
Through the influence of the media and technology on our world, our lives are increasingly characterized by speed and constant change. We live in a dynamic, data-driven society that is continually sparking new forms of human interaction and social contexts. Instead of romanticizing the past, we want to adapt our way of working to coincide with these developments, and we want our work to reflect the here and now. We want to embrace the complexity of this landscape, deliver insight into it and show both its beauty and its shortcomings.
Our work focuses on processes rather than products: things that adapt to their environment, emphasize change and show difference.
Instead of operating under the terms of Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Media Art or Sound Design, we want to introduce Conditional Design as a term that refers to our approach rather than our chosen media. We conduct our activities using the methods of philosophers, engineers, inventors and mystics...."
read the full manifesto for thoughts on:
Process
Logic
Input