Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Click the image to see our full coverage of Obama’s Abbottabad Compound The Department of Defense released this diagram of the Osama Bin Laden Compound. The map below overlays the Department of Defense diagram above onto the exact location of the Osama…
Yesterday, a new site launched a beta version with the aim of helping users plan informal gatherings. Go Tribal allows users to sign up, identify what days they are free and what they might like to do with friends, and then create plans…
One clip shows a girl interpreting math terms as dance moves. Another features a guy flying a small remote-controlled elephant helicopter that he made around his backyard. Are these just random YouTube videos? Not quite. These videos are actually submissions students made…
Android phone users are now offered a free downloadable application available in the Android Market. Similar to an application already available for the iPhone, this new (and official) WordPress app for Android allows users to write and edit posts for their blog. Once downloading…
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to login to any computer and be able to access all your music, pictures, documents, and passwords to all your social networking services? Well, soon (hopefully) you’ll be able to. This is the whole idea…
Have you ever wanted to capture a webpage in it’s entirety? More than just the link, but what you actually see on the page? Well you can! Services like Google notebook, Evernote, ubernote, Diigo, and Zoho (to name a few) can…
Kayla Gregory, one of my graduate students sent me this link Springwise: Video dictionary with a wiki touch Launched two weeks ago, Wordia is a visual dictionary that encourages members of the public to contribute to a collective pool of video definitions.…
The Apple Iphone Jobs Video. Highlights: Microsoft Exchange and VPN support EBAY interface Loopt support – Location Aware Social Networks: We make serendipity happen Native TypePad support (blogging) Apple – QuickTime – WWDC 2008 Keynote And a list of things Apple…
Steven Levy outlines the greater benefits of launching the Iphone 2.0. But though the low price will dominate iPhone chatter between now and July 11, there is actually a much bigger iPhone story to tell. Today marked the official transformation of Jobs’s…
Displays on the go! Eyeing the Future at C.E.S., Part 2 – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog what if you didn’t have to strap on a pair of geeky goggles to watch video on your iPod, cell phone or…
U.S. warship with a legacy
Visible Past, the project I talked about on this blog a couple of times has caught the eye of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is a little videocast they released through their Wired Campus blog.
The department of communication at Purdue has launched this presentation video which highlights some of our main strengths. Speaking of which, have you heard of the latest news from the Chronicle of Higher Education? Our department has been ranked second in terms…
It’s not a joke. Video social networking got religion! GodTube.com
Cosmic Log : Google funds $30 million moon prize Google is bankrolling a $30 million race for privately funded moon rovers – an endeavor that takes the X Prize to new heights. The Google Lunar X Prize, announced today by the search-engine…
Microsoft’s cooking something really cool. The Photosynth project aims to organize large collections of photographs, especially those funnelled through aggregator sites, such as Flickr, using geographic models of real spaces. They have a demo collection of Piazza San Marco of Venice and…
Google’s been strongly opposed to the whole pay-as-you-go revamping of the Internet (the equivalent of introducing toll-lanes ofn the Internet). You know, the whole net neutrality debate. At the same time, Google seems to suggest that its opposition is only pro forma.…
Young dog trainer Zak George, posts a little starry-eyed manifesto about the role of You Tube in changing our future (and in the process the past gets changed, as well). Since its posting last week the clip has been seen by 350,000…
ikbis | Capture your life, is a new user generated video service geared toward the Arabic world. A world just as modern and fascinating, if you know how to look at it, as our world…
By Susan Huelsing Sarapin Submitted on October 22, 2006 to the On-Line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2006, Purdue University Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction Today, people all over the world are connected, or “tethered†(Turkle,…
Please bear with me as I try to communicate my thoughts. I’m quite ill today, so what I write might be slightly difficult to understand. I’ve been groping for a big, fat concept for our site, and maybe somebody can find some…
Larry Sanger’s talk at Purdue about the Future of Information is available. His talk summarizes his work in the area of mediated/stewarded collaboration.
SPCM 529, NC, “Communication Networks” Professor Noshir Contractor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Professor Peter Monge Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California Available via Access Grid and Polycom Videoconference 3 – 6 pm Tuesday, Central (4 – 7 pm…
Dr. Moira Gunn’s interview with Dr. Clifford Nass of Stanford University discusses a decade of research Nass has done on the role of the voice in human-computer relationships. In addition to work that recognizes the differential response our brain exhibits to sounds…
The chapter “The Sad Irons†in Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power illustrates not only the interplay between culture and technology but also the consequences of lacking connection to a technological network (Caro, 1982). Due to geographical…