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Category Archives: Innovation
SXSWrapup (Part 8): Is Crowdsourcing the Problem or the Solution?
[Here's the latest installment in our continuing coverage of SXSW Interactive 2011.] Crowdsourcing’s been an understandably controversial topic over the past few years, leading to heated debates about whether the wisdom of the crowd is superior or inferior to the … Continue reading
Digging a Bit Deeper into AmEx + foursquare
Our SXSWrapup will continue momentarily, but we’ve got one piece of unfinished business to handle first. Before we headed out to SXSW Interactive, we tipped you off to foursquare’s new partnership with American Express (at the very bottom of that … Continue reading
The Talk of the Town at SXSW
Our QR code music calendar isn’t the only goodie we brought with us to SXSW Interactive. Meet our SXSW Interactive visualizer (at sxsw.upshot.net), which’ll help you navigate the onslaught of tweets that are cascading out of Austin. Click on any … Continue reading
Upshot Presents the Air Presenter
In today’s post, we’re excited to share our exclusive coverage of the Air Presenter gesture-based presentation system, featuring the radarTOUCH. Upshot managed to get our hands on the first radarTOUCH shipped to the US, and we’ve already recognized a number … Continue reading
Be a Multilingual Tiger in Bed
Now there’s a headline that’ll get your attention! But, take it easy – the only naughtiness happening here is allowing so much time to elapse since our last augmented reality roundup! In the meantime, we’ve seen a ton of fantastic … Continue reading
Online Tricks and Treats
Following up on Monday’s clever YouTube tweak, we wanted to pass along a couple of other tricks and treats we’ve recently seen around the web. The first is an iPad ad for the USA Network’s show “White Collar,” which is … Continue reading
Dunk Data and Hoops Hype
There’s plenty of budding excitement about this weekend’s NBA Slam Dunk contest, thanks to a crop of extremely athletic youngsters who may or may not be mutants from another planet. But, while the league is building up hype about these … Continue reading
Are Lights and Lasers the Answers to Ad Overload?
Ever since Sao Paulo decided to ban billboards, ad folks in the US (and around the world) have nervously wondered, “Could it happen here?” While it’s hard to say, we’ll soon know what that scenario would look like, thanks to … Continue reading
Google Gets an A+ on Its Art Project
I’m not sure what class Google is taking, but it’s definitely the star student. There was clearly some extra-curricular work behind their just-released Google Art Project, which delivers over a thousand works from 17 of the world’s finest museums right … Continue reading
Love the PLAYR, Love the Game
Well, this kind of blows my old Super Nintendo soccer game out of the water. Check out the trailer above for I AM PLAYR, a game that’s currently in development, but slated for a beta release this year. There’s a … Continue reading