Digital Media Minute is a weblog (Blog) maintained by the Faculty of the Digital Media Technologies (DMT) program at Malaspina University-College (MUC) in Nanaimo, Canada.
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What if ‘the Web’ came to mean a place where information could move between browsers without the need for servers, a decentralized method for communication and all that implies? Marshall Kirkpatrick gives us a little context for this interesting move by the World Wide Web Consortium …
keywords kirkpatrick, marshall, real time, servers, time communication, web browsers, wide web consortium, world wide web, world wide web consortium
Running Ubuntu, with USB on one end and an HDMI cable on the other, this 700MHz CPU, 1080p-capable computer is meant to be used with a TV or a touch screen, and to cost around US$25.
keywords touch screen, ubuntu
Open source initiative Maqetta gives designers WYSIWYG drag/drop assembly of live HTML5 UI mockups for desktop and mobile right in the browser, and aims to make the job of developers who then work with these mockups easier. Very interesting.
keywords designers, developers, job, mockups, open source initiative, user interface
Over at net.tutsplus Jeffrey Way gives us an overview of the handy Vim plug-in/file explorer PeepOpen, its usage and preferences configuration.
If you have an interest in botany, take a look at the free IPhone app, Leafsnap, that enables you to identify the species of a tree and get comprehensive information on it, simply by taking photos of their leaves. (h/t Scientific American’s Newsroom)
keywords iphone, leaves, newsroom, scientific american
Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, gives a thoughtful explanation of why he stopped offering the free Instapaper app. The market for every app is different, but any app creator should take a look at this excellent counterpoint to pro-freemium arguments.
keywords case study, counterpoint
If your camera gets stolen, Stolen camera finder can help you find it. Simply go to the site and drag a photo that you took with the camera onto the page. The site will attempt to find your missing camera by looking for photos on the internet taken with the same camera and matching the [...]
keywords photo, photos
Among other things, Baydin takes as its mission to help make e-mail fun again. I’m having difficulty recalling when exactly it was fun looking at an inbox with dozens of incoming interruptions, only a small fraction of which will serve to actually enrich my existence, but look at the …
keywords dozens, e mail, existence, fraction, inbox, interruptions
Take a look at the way a chocolate company over-delivers on information about its product: batch info, cacao origin and the name of the person who grew it, origin of other ingredients, everything right down to the bean roaster model. It’s probably not necessary to know all this to enjoy …
Social media is a powerful marketing tool, but it comes at a price for many companies in the form of lost productivity. Here is an interesting article on “cyber skiving”, aboutsocial networking sites and the risks they pose to businesses. I say this issue gains lots more relevance in the next …
keywords marketing tool, networking, next five years, productivity, relevance
