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Is Shazam the next QR code? The increasing power of audio tagging

June 08 Comments Off on Is Shazam the next QR code? The increasing power of audio tagging Category: Feed, HackText

TV advertisements are using music and mobile app Shazam to create links from the ads to the products they are selling. What else can audio tagging do for us? For a while now, Old Navy has teamed up with Shazam to provide what is essentially the audio version of QR codes to consumers watching the […]

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Announcing P2 for Kindle! A WordPress theme for notes and collaboration

May 17 Comments Off on Announcing P2 for Kindle! A WordPress theme for notes and collaboration Category: Feed, HackText, Wordpress

I’m announcing a new tool for Kindle users. P2 for Kindle is a WordPress theme built for group work and note-taking on Amazon’s Kindle device. As previous visitors to my blog may remember, I think of the Kindle 3G as my swiss army knife of internet-enabled devices. With an internet connection pretty much anywhere, a […]

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Trove spectacularly fails to deliver.

April 27 Comments Off on Trove spectacularly fails to deliver. Category: Feed, HackText

Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.

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Trove spectacularly fails to deliver.

April 27 Comments Off on Trove spectacularly fails to deliver. Category: Feed, HackText

Washington Post’s recently released aggregator site Trove brings little to the table, both in terms of content and function.

Related posts:

  1. Wait, So Facebook Dictates Reality?
  2. Is Digg Completely Irrelevant to Gen Y?
  3. Facebook Bans News of SpeedDate.com