Posted by on under news aggregators, extence, compas, standout, blogosphere, heading, mystery, job |


The internet (the blogosphere to be precise) is still a bit of a mystery to many in tech and entertainment. It's weird to think that companies whose job it is to reach tech-savvy consumers aren't using this tool correctly, but it's also no secret that the biggest and most influential companies are often the slowest to adapt. At any rate, they're learning, but some are learning faster than others. Here I chronicle just a few standout cases. Note that many companies are bunched under the PR heading, which is in the second half of this post for reasons which will become obvious. Also, it's a bit awkward talking about the "new media" right after I
denied its existence, but for the purposes of this post please just consider it to mean big blogs, news aggregators, and social or bottom-up media.

Tagi: news aggregators, extence, compas, standout, blogosphere, heading, mystery, job
Posted by on under darmstadt germany, recycling bins, alcohol content, beer wine, urinals, urinal, eduard, spoof, saal, gentleman, toilets, elephant, picnic, robot, soap, heading, labels, amsterdam, targets, freedom |

Spotted in the toilets of a restaurant next to the Burgerhaus Sonne Eduard-Schmidt-Saal in Alsbach, Germany on last night's tour stop: these urinals spoof the ubiquitous German recycling-bins with labels reading BEER, WINE, NON-ALCOHOLIC, and OTHER, under the heading PLEASE HELP US SEPARATE. I'm on tour here in Germany until Wednesday, then it's off to Amsterdam for PICNIC and the Bits Of Freedom event. Urinals that sort wee by alcohol content, Darmstadt, Germany It's not a urinal, is it? Overflowing urinal cascade Gentleman mistakes urinal and urinal cake for sink and soap ... Urinal targets and other helpful nudges Cute elephant urinal cleaning robot That's not a mouth-shaped urinal, it's a *travesty* Privacy urinals...


Tagi: darmstadt germany, recycling bins, alcohol content, beer wine, urinals, urinal, eduard, spoof, saal, gentleman, toilets, elephant, picnic, robot, soap, heading, labels, amsterdam, targets, freedom
Posted by on under ooh ahh, autostereoscopic 3d, gizmodo, video presenter, barrier technology, parallax, raquo, smartphones, ing, ui, heading, glasses |

It's difficult to gauge the full power of the autostereoscopic 3D from a video, but, as with
Sharp's parallax barrier technology, you can see how Scaleform's glasses-less 3D works. The video presenter's "ooh! ahh!"-ing just endorses it even more.
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Tagi: ooh ahh, autostereoscopic 3d, gizmodo, video presenter, barrier technology, parallax, raquo, smartphones, ing, ui, heading, glasses
Posted by on under veriz, new details, blurb, leaks, heading, nbsp, verizon, palm |

Engadget
got their hands on an internal Verizon training document, and lo and behold, there's a section on the elusive
Palm Pre 2. The blurb doesn't divulge any new details, but hopefully it means we'll be hearing more soon. [
Engadget]
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Tagi: veriz, new details, blurb, leaks, heading, nbsp, verizon, palm
Posted by on under gop challengers, senate hopefuls, gop senate, house democrats, wall street journal, washingt, congressional candidates, los angeles times, bost, mey, washington post, new york times, npr, gop, rae, republican, wall street, news articles, heading, globe |

Tagi: gop challengers, senate hopefuls, gop senate, house democrats, wall street journal, washingt, congressional candidates, los angeles times, bost, mey, washington post, new york times, npr, gop, rae, republican, wall street, news articles, heading, globe