Giant Robot Art in Ukraine - Post Soviet meets I,Robot

Check out this art work in Ukraine, found via Gizmodo.com which found it via Pravda.

This is very Burning Man- esque if you ask me.

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Visual Search War - Goog vs Amzn vs Nokia

With Today's annoucement of Google's Goggles we are seeing the battle lines coming together for the next search land grab war.

The Big 3 competitors are:

* Nokia - Point and Find app/service

*Amazon- Acquired SnapTell, iPhone app, allows Visual search/ Puchase of CD's, DVDs, Books

* Google- Goggles. For Android only (reportedly works GREAT). has Landmark recognition

I need to delve deeper into this subject. Especially since i have been exploring a similar Visual Search App product concepts for TMD.

We have been tinkering with Evernote's API to power ICR, we have built prototypes for the wine use case. I am familiar with Abby's OCR Recognition Engine. Now that there is a possibility of a Google Api for the visual search space, this niche is getting a lot of lift.

Lastly it dove tails nicely into my interest in Augmented Reality AR. My gut feel is that innovations in Visual Search, will be the input side, and new AR products will create the Output side of the next generation of main stream consumer search/mobile experiences.

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Spin Phone Design: Mechanical Retro meets Touch

I just discovered a very cool website dedicated to design. Yankodesign.com

If you are a fan of Design you MUST check it out. Below is a teaser of what types of things you can find on Yanko.

The design is called SPIN Phone, here is the link to the original article on it btw (almost forogt oops) .It charges from the user twirling the phone on their finger while they walk up or down the street or what have you. there is also a crank charging option.

I thought Spin Phone was a fascinating design that excelled at the intersection of:

- Renewable Energy/ New mobile charging trends

- Mechanically driven products (think watches with Swiss movement)

- Mobile phone concept design

I love this concept, my only question is wether or not its really viable in terms of how much charge you can generate from the twirling/crank mechanism VS. how much charge the touch screen eats up. Either Case congrats to this Russian designer, Mikhail Stawsky ,for dreaming up something awesome, and possibly a real future product if the electro physics numbers crunch properly.

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Merge Mobile: HealthIT

Wow this truly sits at the intersection of my projects: iPhone Apps, Digital Mammography, and Health IT . Found a company called Merge Healthcare just demoed the following iPhone app at RSNA:

http://www.merge.com/fusion/solutions/web/mergemobile/index.aspx

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Health Plan via Obama + T Pain AutoTune: Hilarious

Ok so i have been getting into HealthIT slowly but surely. Entering a new market space from an entrepreneurs perspective is like flirting with a new addiction. Its scary and not something you volunteer for, but in order to succeed in a new innovative start up space you need to get soo familiar with the product landscape, legislation, media, trendsetters etc that obsession with the subject is the surest way if not the only way there.

As i said i have been looking into the next space that i want to focus my entrepreneurial energies on, and its looking like it will be HealthIT. So here is something i find funny. Its about Health, its funny, its about an iPhone app. Its hilarious.

Enjoy:

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Start Up / Web Workers = Workaholics. Tool to help

So its no secret that start up founders, entrepreneurs, and developers are workaholics. Simply put there is an unsaid consensus in Silicon Valley at least, that this is what it takes to succeed.
- Developers get cases of coca cola and delivery food to do hack-a-thons and code into the wee hours of the night.
- Guerilla Marketers/ PR efforts require ridiculous amount of manual social media, emailing, blogging etc to get any results
- Designers get fixated on getting everything pixel perfect, then get soo tired they go into cycles of scraping and starting over
- The list goes on and on and on about various ways start up people and web workers work ridiculous hours.

So what does that all mean ? It means we are workaholics, its a form of addiction (not that bad of one as those go).

How do you break the cycle ? Well Relaxation techniques, and re programming behavioral patterns are good things to focus on.

So i found this super nifty Animated Gif of a stick figure Yoga Sun Salutaion. I think it shows a useful relaxation technique we can all benefit from. Once we break the cycle i bet productivity actually goes up :)

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iPlacemarks: International and Fresh

iPlacemarks went international this week. Our App got downloaded in Brazil, and then in Australia.

As a response to this, we localized our App store marketing copy, and most importantly keywords into 10 languages.

We also got listed on more directories:

Check out http://www.freshapps.com/iplacemarks/

for instance

There are many more. Actively learning lessons in iPhone App marketing. Stay tuned

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