Mar 18
Mar 18
Plaid Enterprises, Inc., the company behind classic crafting goodies
like Mod Podge, FolkArt paint, and Gallery Glass, are searching for the
next big thing in do-it-yourself consumer products. If you’ve got an
invention that will make crafting easier and more fun, they might pick
up your product!
Mar 18
Seattle-based photographer Daniel Beltrá took these images for the book Spill. They’re beautiful, perfectly crafted shots despite their horrible—and gut-wrenching to the point of nausea—subject matter: The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mar 18
A peek at Crimea’s controversial election day, Philly widens freeways by mistake, and does Austin, T
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A peek at Crimea’s controversial election day, Philly widens freeways by mistake, and does Austin, Texas, have a drinking problem? Plus, the incredible story behind Rio’s most famous monument, and the truth about earthquakes in L.A. Come along with us on this week’s Urban Reads.
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Mar 18
Over the past four years the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) was busy collecting photographs… 10,581 to be exact. And it was all for you! So you could explore the moon at a dazzling resolution of six feet per pixel—your tax dollars at work
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Mar 18
Google’s first big play in the wearables ecosystem is in Android Wear, a version of Android introduced on March 18th, 2014. This system is centered around two core functions: Suggest … Continue reading
Mar 18
Unity 5 game engine brings advanced lighting, physics and audio effects to mobile, PC and now the web
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At the Game Developers Conference, or for those in the know: GDC, we got a taste of the new Unity 5 game engine. For most of you, a new engine doesn’t mean much, but in the hands of the right people, it can mean more beautiful and realistic games….
Mar 18
Autonomous cars are coming soon, people, maybe as soon as 2015 if you live in California. And with them will be a whole set of new rules and regulations when it comes to driving. Or, ahem, not driving.
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Mar 18
This article was written on March 15, 2007 by CyberNet.
Ajax can really change the dynamics of a site with both looks and experience. It’s popping up a lot more often now, and one of the first big names to move to Ajax was Yahoo with their new mail system. I think you could say that it’s becoming the next greatest thing in web development and design.
One of the problems with Ajax is that when determining where a website stands with traffic, web stats rank sites most often on page views. This is a problem because if you’re using Ajax, the page is not required to refresh which then makes the statistics inaccurate.
Our commenting system uses Ajax, and when people leave comments, the page doesn’t refresh. In the end, it means a lower ranking in page views, but the user experience is better. Most metrics companies haven’t really thought about how to handle Ajax, and some sites avoid it all together simply because they’re page-view hungry.
Just yesterday, comScore Media metrix announced a new suite of metrics that will gives sites a better idea of the kind of traffic they have if they’re using Ajax by basing statistics on “visits.” A visit as they define it is the number of times a unique person accesses content within a Web entity with breaks between access of at least 30 minutes.
Within their suite, they’re also including total visits, average minutes per visit, average visits per visitor, and average visits per usage day. I think the average minutes per visit is another important measurement tool because it gives an idea of how long people are engaged with the content.
It’s good to see a major statistics provider implement another way to view traffic ranking so that people who use Ajax get a better, more comprehensive idea of where their site stands. The people who have avoided Ajax so far simply for the page views have absolutely no excuse now!
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Mar 18
Pebble Founder Emphasizes Multi-Year Lead On Android Wear And Google’s Smartwatch Ambitions
Posted in: Today's ChiliPebble is one company that came to mind when Google unveiled its Android Wear smartwatch (and eventually, other wearables) development platform. The small startup has been creating smartwatch hardware for years now, first as the Allerta inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry devices, and then reinvented as the Pebble, the Kickstarter success that proved to the world smartwatches could be more than just… Read More
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