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Friday, February 19, 2010
Mitsubishi's upconverting technology takes 1080p to 4K x 2K, you to cloud nine
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/mitsubishis-upconverting-technology-takes-1080p-to-4k-x-2k-you/
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TuneGlue Helps You Find New Tunes You'd Like by Mapping Music Connections [Music]
You start building a web by searching for an artist. In our sample web above we started with Iggy Pop. When you click on your first node, you can perform variety of actions with the node but the most important action is expanding the node. Expanding adds more nodes to the web, spun off of the node you expanded. By expanding nodes you can generate connections between artists based on listening patterns. Iggy Pop, for example, links to The Stooge which in turn link to the New York Dolls. Curious how we got from Iggy Pop to Garbage? We went from Iggy Pop through Patti Smith -> PJ Harvey -> Tori Amos -> Alanis Morissette -> The Craberries -> Garbage.
Unlike some other music discovery services you can't listen immediately to the artists' work as you find them but you can click on the "Releases" icon on each node to be taken to Amazon.com to sample music from the artist or purchase an album.
Have a particularly interesting string of connections you made through TuneGlue? Have another favorite music discovery service? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Meebo Brings Slick Multi-Network Chat to the iPhone, and It's Excellent [Downloads]
Meebo sports push notifications that activate automatically when the app is closed so you can keep in touch even when Meebo isn't running, and it syncs between your iPhone and desktop app so you don't miss a beat communicating with your contacts. It's got all the features its web-based cousin has—like full chat history and integration with Facebook, AIM, and Yahoo.
Landscape mode and other little niceties like the ability to add Away messages make using Meebo on the iPhone a joy. It doesn't have a whole bunch of useless features weighing it down so the learning curve on this app takes about 10 seconds.
If you're not rocking an iPhone, Meebo hasn't forgotten about you. The service already has apps for Android (and a mobile web site for other smartphones).
Now that instant messaging apps are finding their way off the desktop and onto mobile devices, what features would you like to see in future versions. Dream big in the comments.
Meebo for iPhone [via Gizmodo]
Google Shopper Visual Search App Officially Confuses Me: WTF Is Google Doing? [Google]
I don't understand Google Shopper. Not because the function—searching for books, CDs, DVDs and more by using the cover art or barcode—is confusing. But because they already have a visual search app built into new Android phones, Goggles.
Goggles does the same thing: You take a picture of something, like a book cover, and it searches for it. I get that Shopper is slightly different, with more of a direct Amazon-competitive slant, since you can bookmark products to buy them later (presumably through Google Checkout).
But why not just integrate that into Goggles? Why the hell does this separate other product exist? Like Fake Steve says, WTF is going on over there? Android and Chrome OS? Wave and Buzz? (Okay, Buzz and Wave aren't an entirely fair comparison, though try explaining them to a normal person.) Now Goggles and Shopper? Am I just missing something? [Google]
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