New Google Search options

New Google search options are impressive.  Only available on the English Google.com though.  More here.

Bart Decrem: Being A European Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley – The Veteran Perspective


Being A European Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley – The Veteran Perspective

Extremely interesting presentation from a fellow Belgian living in Silicon Valley on last month’s Plugg conference in Brussels.

[Dutch] Social Media in minuten

Een checklist om te evalueren of en hoe social media kan ingezet worden in een organisatie. Via, via.

Taskfox


Like Ubiquity but without needing a Firefox extension – it’s all Javascript + html.  Demo here. Via.

Violet MIR:ROR and TouchaTag promovideos

Few of the examples are actually convincing and some are a bit ludicrous, yet you can imagine people build be really useful applications – especially for disabled, eldery people or kids for whom the interfaces whe have now are too complicated…  Oh, and to be fair, here’s a similar (somewhat less appealing though) video for Tikitag – now known as Touchatag:

Daily Show: on blogs (2005) and on Twitter (2009)

2005, blogs
 
 
2009, Twitter
 

Clay Shirky, PopTech 2008 (Designing for generosity)

(source, via)

Final edition


Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

Yes, we’ll see probably more of this (via).

Mythbusters: on why biometrics for authentication is a BAD idea

Using biometrics to authenticat is a bad idea… your “token” can be stolen and… you only have a limited number of them (typically one ;-) ).  Check out this essay on Why Identity and Authentication Must Remain Distinct. Via ReadWriteWeb.

Wikitude: Wikipedia-fed augmented reality demo

 

Based on your location, your phone will show your surroundings with a Wikipedia-fed information overlay.  Powerful visual execution of the idea behind WikiNear.

(More here, via Between Brackets, an excellent blog on mobile and socialmedia trends)