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Toshiba Snuffs Out Old Light Bulb Production, Embraces the Shiny LED Future
The compact fluorescent bulb made up some of that slack in 2009, with some 14 million of the more eco-friendly units rolling off the production line.
Of course it was cutting-edge tech for over a century, and the science that made them glow resulted in improved designs in terms of both efficiency and bulb longevity. Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason?
Fast Company
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
An incubator of cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of captivating keynote presentations, panel sessions, book readings, Salons and Core Conversations that provide hands-on training as well as big-picture analysis. PubCon South will include cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the world's top keynote speakers. It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus.
ReadWriteWeb
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
BEtreat - a party workshop
I thought of following it up with something similar for my fiftieth in 2009. Time is pressing as it runs from 5th - 10th July: a state-of-the art and cutting-edge workshop culminating in a birthday celebration. How many of us are blurring the edges of private and professional? Etienne Wenger and I are throwing a birthday workshop in Grass Valley, California. It's a way of sharing our work together and pushing out the envelope.
Bev Trayner
- Friday, March 12, 2010
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What Will Change Everything?
As each year winds to a close, John Brockman, a literary agent representing some of the finest minds in science and technology and the founder of Edge (a 501c3), poses a provocative question to an international community of physicists, psychologists, futurists, thought leaders and dreamers. This year’s annual Edge question, What will change everything? , generated responses from Freeman Dyson, Danny Hillis, Martin Seligman, Craig Venter, and Juan Enriquez, to name a few. Regular Radar contributor Linda Stone sent this in to be posted today.
What What game-changing
OReilly Radar
- Thursday, January 1, 2009
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YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendations Rule
That quote, by Greg Linden, the man behind Amazon’s recommendation system, is the dogma of Directed Edge , a new Y Combinator -backed startup in the recommendation space. And while there are no shortage of companies out there that focus on some of these different fields specifically, Directed Edge has developed a system that can be plugged into all kinds of different sites.
Most recommendations “ Whoever manages to change the nature of content display on the Web from a search problem to a recommender problem will reap tremendous rewards. ” 8221;
TechCrunch
- Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009
2009 has been a turning point for the Internet of Things , when real world objects (such as lights, cars and packages) get connected to the Internet. ReadWriteWeb's Best Products of 2009:
Earlier this year we looked at three of the world's leading RFID-powered Smart Cards: Japan's cutting edge Suica Card , London's Oyster Card and Hong Kong's long-running Octopus Card . This trend has added a significant amount of new data to the Web, so for that reason alone it is an important development. Having said that, many of the following top 10 list are not yet mainstream
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends (Redux)
That won't replace "end destination e-commerce", but Kurt said it will "augment sales tremendously" at the edge of the network. Tags: 2009 Redu In a RWW Live podcast from last December, we discussed 'shopping 2.0' . In this analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years - what web technologies our expert guests are currently using and the trends they've picked up on.
ReadWriteWeb
- Sunday, May 17, 2009
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Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data
This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009. However the way 2009 has panned out so far, it's become clear that this trend is much more than the Semantic Web. Sponsor
Editor's note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we'll re-publish some of our best posts of 2009. We'll be posting one trend analysis per day. Then at the end of the week we'll publish a major update to our standard presentation about web technology trends.
ReadWriteWeb
- Saturday, December 26, 2009
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Bring Power to the Edge
The four fundamental principles of the agile, "edge-based" organization are situational awareness, skills, values, and decision rights.
This thinking has been articulately documented in many places including the excellent book Power to the Edge by David Alberts & Richard Hayes.
What we need is a modular, self-synchronizing system to deal with crises at the edges — as they happen. For instance, special forces teams are able to deal effectively with the most complex and dynamic situations because they have been designed to be able to be extremely agile.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
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Cutting-Edge Robots Show Off in Japan
ICRA 2009 will showcase everything from tree-climbing machines to robots that politely ask for directions.
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Acquiring a natural edge
The Boston Globe has an interesting article on how we interact with urban environments and discusses research suggesting that contact with nature has significant cognitive benefits.
It's a fascinating article that touches on studies that have found a range of benefits for having contact with a natural environment:
Studies have demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly
Mind Hacks
- Monday, January 5, 2009
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Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web
This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009. In this article we look at probably the most hyped trend of 2009: the Real-Time Web . Sponsor
Editor's note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we'll re-publish some of our best posts of 2009. We're posting one trend analysis per day. Then at the end of the week we'll publish a major update to our standard presentation about web technology trends.
ReadWriteWeb
- Sunday, December 27, 2009
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The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
David B. Today, many people are looking to high technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives the U.S. economy and gets it back on track.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
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