"Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people's checkin patterns at places across the city, we create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it."

"A Kanban is a simple project management tool. It enables you to visualize your workflow, limit your work in progress, and optimize your “cycle time” (the time it takes to complete one item.) For software development projects, this is a big deal. It helps you find bottlenecks and push quality upstream. Ultimately, you shape your process to flow more value as efficiently and effectively as possible, “just in time.” Another way to think of it is, your users “pull” value through your development chain, while you streamline your process."

"ZeroN is a new physical/digital interaction element that can be levitated and moved freely by computer in a three dimensional space. Both the computer and people can move the ZeroN simultaneously. In doing so, people and computers can physically interact with one another in 3D space. Users are invited to place or move the ZeroN just as they can place any other objects on surfaces. Once levitated, ZeroN's behavior can be digitally programmed. For example, users can place the sun above physical objects to cast digital shadows, or place a planet that will start revolving based on simulated physical conditions.

ZeroN can remember how it has been moved. Physical motions of people can be collected in this medium to preserve and play them back indefinitely. When the users move and release the ZeroN, it continues to float and starts to move along the same path."

"Our idea is to encourage it by giving kids a place online to show it off, so family, friends and grandparents can see it and easily respond. Recognition makes a kid feel great, and motivates them to keep going. We want them to keep making, and by doing so learn new skills, use technology constructively, begin a lifelong adventure of curiosity, and hopefully spend time offline, too."

"Hooper Selection is a method of cursor movement and text selection for tablet devices, designed with the goal of making text editing more efficient. It consists of a set of gestures the user can make over the system keyboard to adjust the cursor or selection position. Its convenience stems from the fact that it allows the user to navigate around the text without having to move their hands away from the keyboard area or incur tap-and-hold delays when beginning a cursor drag action."

Gallery of responsive web designs.

"It's cheap but degrading to reuse content and design across diverging media forms like print vs. online or desktop vs. mobile. Superior UX requires tight platform integration."

"The Social Computing Symposium 2012 focuses on the changing nature of "the public,” and is held on the campus of New York University in the Interactive Telecommunication Program space on January 12-13. Since 2004, Microsoft Research (MSR) has sponsored an annual symposium on social computing that has brought together academic and industry researchers, social startups, writers, and influential commentators in order to open new lines of communication among previously disconnected groups."

SoundWave, a technique that leverages the speaker and microphone already embedded in most commodity devices to sense in-air gestures around the device. To do this, we generate an inaudible tone, which gets frequency-shifted when it reflects off moving objects like the hand. We measure this shift with the microphone to infer various gestures.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images.

The Amazon Mechanical Turk Command Line Tools are a set of command line interfaces that allow you to easily build solutions leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk without writing a line of code.

The grantBonus command issues a payment from your account to a Worker. This payment happens separately from the reward you pay to the Worker when you approve the Worker's assignment. You must have enough funds in your account to pay for the bonus.

=MOD(ROW()-12,3*2)+1<=3

Flat pack polypropylene... awesome!

Tintype, also melainotype and ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a sheet of iron metal that is blackened by painting, lacquering or enamelling and is used as a support for a collodion photographic emulsion.

Photographers usually worked outside at fairs, carnivals etc. and as the support of the tintype (there is no actual tin used) is resilient and does not need drying, photographs can be produced only a few minutes after the picture is taken.

An ambrotype uses the same process and methods on a sheet of glass that is mounted in a case with a black backing so the underexposed negative image appears as a positive. Tintypes did not need mounting in a case and were not as delicate as photographs that used glass for the support

"Muse lets you look back and reflect on your past by allowing you to quickly browse a large email archive and helps you spot possibly interesting messages and patterns in the archive"

Seems to support old scanners where no oem drivers exist.

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization tool providing highly optimized performance and usability without needless user interface complexity.

"A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc."

"Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows. Scribus supports professional features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and robust commercial grade PDF."

a set of plans and a kit for making an Internet of Things Camera -- a tiny, standalone gizmo that turns an Arduino, a webcam's guts and an EyeFi card into a device that can wirelessly transmit photos to a computer, with complimentary software for processing, uploading and filing the images it captures.

"The jQuery Print Preview plugin is designed to provide visitors with a preview of the print version of a web site. Unlike traditional print previews this plugin brings in all content and print styles within a modal window."

What is Prism Skylabs?

Prism Skylabs brings physical spaces online, creating new places for people and businesses to understand and engage each other. The company is changing how businesses use video and how consumers experience physical spaces online. In the longer term, Prism Skylabs’ goal is to transform the world’s multi-hundred billion-dollar camera network investments into a platform for online-to-offline commerce that creates new revenue streams and new opportunities for businesses to engage customers.

How does it work?

At a high level, Prism Skylabs combines streams of washed-out and noisy video into gorgeous, photo-like images using a variety of processing techniques designed to enhance resolution, dynamic range and overall image quality. Additionally, the company uses unique video synthesis and cloud storage technologies to significantly reduce the data footprint while also increasing informational content.

"Geoloqi is a powerful platform for real-time location, messaging, and analytics."

OpenProposals is a web application for collecting presentation proposals for conferences and events. It started out as the Ignite Portland proposals site but has since been reworked as a general-purpose platform that can be restyled and extended for collecting proposals for other events.

Saved my butt a few times....

"Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Scott Hudson. I'm also a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellow and editor-in-chief of XRDS, ACM's flagship magazine for students."

A collection of universal symbols (see niels diffrient)

Training and basketball shoes with pressure sensors that collects information about the user’s movement and then wirelessly transmits data to their phone.

"D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction."

Your taxes visualized as a number of days in a year... where your money goes...

The Agrarian Adventure is a publicly-supported 501(c)3 nonprofit that exists due to the active participation and dedicated support of students, teachers, parents, and community members. We are a grassroots organization growing up from within Tappan Middle School, a large middle school, located in Ann Arbor, MI serving nearly 800 students in grades 6-8.

"Mobile apps currently have better usability than mobile sites, but forthcoming changes will eventually make a mobile site the superior strategy."

Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) is a classic silent film by revered French director Georges Méliès. Released in 1902, this legendary 16-minute film is widely considered one of the most important works in film history, and the very first to use science fiction as its theme, incorporating special effects that were very state-of-the-art at the turn of the 19th century. It was loosely based on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells The First Men In The Moon.

Inexpensive Pogoplug based hardware

Coffee shop / breakfast and lunch. Roast their own coffee, local ingredients, etc.

"NeTV is designed to work as an add-on to video sources like Boxee, Revue, Roku, PS3, Xbox360, DVR, DVD, set top boxes, etc. It sits between these devices and the TV. NeTV's key benefit is adding push delivery of personalized internet news on top of all platforms in a non-intrusive and always-on manner. By being platform agnostic, NeTV enables you to add apps to any system configuration without having to throw away your existing hardware investments."

Microsoft has placed Apache Hadoop at the core of its big data strategy. It's a move that might seem surprising to the casual observer, being a somewhat enthusiastic adoption of a significant open source product.

Awards $1000 grants every month for great ideas with no strings attached. Money comes as cash in a brown paper bag.

"A makerspace in Detroit for people to gather, make and learn together"

"This post aims to provide a readable technical overview of the system. First it will summarize the key design elements of BrowserID. Next, it will explore the various actors in the system and their inter-relationships. Finally, we'll walk through several of the most important flows, including certificate provisioning (where the user obtains authentication material from an identity provider), assertion generation (where the user uses that material to tell a website who they are), and assertion verification (where the website being logged into verifies the user's email address)."

"BrowserID is a decentralized identity system that makes it possible for users to prove ownership of email addresses in a secure manner, without requiring per-site passwords. BrowserID is hoped to ultimately become an alternative to the tradition of ad-hoc application-level authentication based on site-specific user-names and passwords. BrowserID is built by Mozilla, and implements a variant of the verified email protocol (originally proposed by Mike Hanson, and refined by Dan Mills and others)."

Using cognitive psychology / user behavior to coerce them into providing the data you need, even if you don't need all of it.

TIPA for ITIL provides a methodology to perform an IT Service Management process assessment compliant with the ISO/IEC 15504 standard assessment approach.

Seasonal reinterpretations of design classics.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.