Posts Tagged ‘experience’
Blekko Powers Search for Flipboard
Blekko announced today that it is now powering RSS search for the popular iPad app Flipboard . The functionality is designed to weed out spam as blekko’s slashtag method of searching does, so Flipboard users can discover good content based on keywords
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Blekko Powers Search for Flipboard
Foursquare Experiments With NFC at Google I/O
Today begins the 2011 Google I/O conference, which will bring thousands of developers to San Francisco to immerse themselves in the world of next gen applications. Foursquare has teamed up with Google at this year’s conference to offer a look into what may well be the check-in of tomorrow. Foursquare and Google have worked together to allow attendees the ability to check-in using Near-field communication (NFC). Briefly, NFC is short wave wireless communication. It is usually invoked during the discussion of mobile payments but it has a ton of other applications. Basically, two NFC enabled devices are able to transmit information just by being relatively close to one another. At the I/O conference, Google has placed NFC checkpoints all around the convention center. Users with NFC enabled devices (most new Android phones, wink, Google) can simply tap their phones against a poster checkpoint and check-in automatically
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Foursquare Experiments With NFC at Google I/O
Netflix, Kinect Integrate
Xbox 360 owners who also own Kinect hardware and a Netflix subscription can now enjoy films without having to touch their 360 controllers. Today, Kinect was partially integrated into the Xbox 360 Netflix app.
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Netflix, Kinect Integrate
