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Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the Story is a one-day public symposium exploring the role of transmedia franchises in today's entertainment industries. Transmedia, Hollywood turns the spotlight on media creators, producers and executives and places them in critical dialogue with top researchers from across a wide spectrum of film, media and cultural studies to provide an interdisciplinary summit for the free interchange of insights about how transmedia works and what it means.

Co-hosted by Denise Mann...

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Yesterday and today I spent once again at the
href="http://www.himss.org/">Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Atlanta, rushing from panel
session to vendor booth to interoperability demo and back (or
forward--I'm not sure which direction I've been going). All these
peregrinations involve a quest to find progress in the areas of
interoperability and openness.

The U.S. has a mobile population, bringing their aches and pains to a
plethora of institutions and small...

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1. Who Is Going To Build The New Public Services? -- a thoughtful exploration of the possibilities and challenges of third parties building public software systems. There's a lot of talk of "just put up the data and we'll build the apps" but I think this is a more substantial consideration of which apps can be built by whom.
2. Quake 3 for Android -- kiss the weekend goodbye, NexusOne owners! My theory is that no platform has "made it" until a first person shooter has been ported to it. (via BoingBoing)
3. Graph...

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A few weeks ago, GigaOM contributor and veteran entrepreneur Allan Leinwand wrote a post entitled Cisco vs. All Comers. Well lets add Google to that list of all comers. The Financial Times reported today that Cisco is developing a new ultra-high-speed system for internet access in partnership with a number of U.S. service providers, according to people close to the company.

Cisco, it seems, is trying to counter the unease caused by Googles recent announcement that it will build Google Fiber, a fiber-based...

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In a ruling that could have broad implications for video hosting sites that operate in Italy, three Google executives were found guilty of violating privacy laws yesterday for a video that was uploaded to Google Video by one of its users. Although Google has already said it would appeal the decision, the ruling could set a negative precedent if not overturned.

The case centers around a cellphone video of a disabled teenager being bullied by classmates that was uploaded to Google Video in 2006. The EU and I...

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Forget everything you did today. Clear your schedule and spend the next half hour watching this video. It is a presentation by Jesse Schell, founder of Schell Games and former creative director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio. A veteran game designer, he is also on the faculty of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

In a recent talk at the DICE 2010 conference held last week in Las Vegas, he gave a presentation called Design Outside The Box. It is the most mi...

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1. Off-the-shelf camera hacked to grab high-speed video (New Scientist) -- scientists used a chip from a home cinema projector to record 400fps on consumer video hardware. They put the chip, which has tiny moving mirrors, in front of the digital camera and it directs the incoming light sequentially over a grid of pixels in the digital camera, meaning that each of the digital camera's frames contains 16 samples (frames) of the picture. You lose resolution but gain frames/second. (via viksnewsclippings)
2. Histor...

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Atimi Software is among the top 20 Vancouver-based wireless and digital media companies being showcased in the citys Robson Square during the Winter Olympics Games and Paralympic Games. The installation is part of VX short for Vancouver Experience which is aimed at highlighting the citys world-class wireless and new media industry. It is a great honor and opportunity for Atimi and its iPhone clients to be able to both demonstrate current applications and reveal two new ones that will soon hit the marketpl...

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For a while the consensus has been that the mobile web is the same as the PC web, in that a person should be able to access whatever content they can via a wired PC connection on their phone, without suffering through WAP browsers or limits. I disagree. The mobile web is still different than the wired web, and its far more important.

Which means that developers shouldnt only think of the web in terms of a wired connection for a PC. Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said it best when he discussed the f...

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1. Mimo Monitors -- USB-powered external monitors for your laptop or desktop, and you can daisy-chain them for multiple external monitors. Opens the possibility of task-specific monitors (one for chat, one for email, one for shell, one for code, ...). Monitors are 7" (800x480) and there's even a touchscreen option. (via James Duncan)
2. The Secrets of Malcolm Gladwell -- how to give a talk like Malcolm Gladwell. A short read and interesting. (via thestrategist)
3. Plupload -- a nice widget to handle file uploads...

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