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Home-Entertainment Systems and the User Experience

No Comments Posted in: Technology, User Experience | By: hanswendland | June 9, 2011

Home-entertainment systems have changed by leaps and bounds over the years, but the user experience is still in the stone-age… why? Recently I was asked by an industry expert what I thought about the “user experience” of traditional home-entertainment systems. I have to admit, I surprised myself on how passionate my response became as the …

Google Maps Now Features Schedules For More Than 1 Million Transit Stops Worldwide
FREDERIC LARDINOI - Google Maps now features public transit schedules for more than 500 cities and one million transit stops worldwide. To make all of this information more accessible to its users on the go, Google today launched an update to Google Maps for Android. The updated Google Maps app now, for example, allows users to choose which specific mode of transportation (train, bus, tram or subway) they want to see on their maps. Additionally, Google’s redesigned station pages now make it easier to find information like departure times, which lines serve a specific station and the distance to nearby stations. Users just have to tap on the name of a station to get to these new station pages.
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Uber Gets The Green Light In Boston, With Help From The Governor’s Office
RYAN LAWLER - Yesterday, we reported that Uber had came under fire from the Division of Standards of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, receiving a cease and desist letter that sought to shut down its operations in the Greater Boston area. The issue has since been resolved, with an amended decision saying Uber was “not out of compliance with state law” and free to continue operating. At the heart of the dispute is Uber’s use of GPS location technology to pick up riders and determine appropriate fares. The Standards Division initially ruled that since the National Institute of Standards and Technology didn’t have guidelines in place for GPS, that Uber couldn’t use the technology for its car service. Despite the cease and desist letter, Uber said it would continue operating in the area, moving “full speed ahead.”
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The Invisible Bike Helmet: An Airbag On The Go
JOSH CONSTINE - People die trying to look cool. Vanity is the sad reason why people don’t wear bike helmets. So two Swedish women set out to invent “the invisible bicycle helmet”, They’ve succeeded, and the end product isn’t a made of clear plexiglass and there’s no lightbending-stealth technology. In fact it’s not really a helmet at all. Hövding is a rapidly-inflating airbag that deploys from a collar around your neck when you’re in an accident. Here’s how it works, and a video demonstrating this amazing, but still expensive, invention.
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Here’s What Social Networks Know About You
SOCIAL MEDIA - A read through most online privacy policies is enough to make your stomach acid curdle. And social media companies have more access to personal data than most. Some collect inform…
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The Party's Over: How Facebook Is Forcing Brands to Buy Advertising (And What To DO About It)
Mediaite - If you had the right development team, those tabs could be used to do almost anything: sell items, play games, create and share user-generated content, etc. They were a great way to extend and enrich a digital campaign. But Timeline, even though it was ...
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10 Tactics for Integrating Photographs into Content Marketing
Business 2 Community - As with other forms of content, you don't have to create all of the images yourself. This is a good way to incorporate user-generated content, where you maintain editorial decision-making for what gets posted, or to get around the lack of rights to use ...
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LinkedIn Makes Homepage More Like Facebook, Google+
by Todd Wasserman - LinkedIn overhauled the look of its homepage on Monday, the end result of which is sort of a mashup of Facebook and Google+. As on Facebook, the design has more relevant updates on top plus a comment stream that is set off with a different-colored (light blue) background. There’s also a line on top of the stream that shows which people — and how many — commented and liked the post.
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Meet Brewster, The Next Must-Have App For Your iPhone
Kevin Smith - Brewster is a new app that will change the way you view your contacts.
Managing contacts across multiple accounts and networks has always been annoying, but Brewster's goal is to make the process prettier and easier. Using Brewster helps you visualize the people you contact most and points out those you don't.
Brewster automatically organizes all of your contacts from your address book, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, and Gmail making it easier to find your most contacted friends.
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The 16-Year Itch: Microsoft, NBC Call It Quits, NBC Gets Custody Of MSNBC.com
INGRID LUNDEN - They came together with a common world view and complementary personalities. Then, as they grew older and grew apart, they still tried to make it work — for the sake of the child, at least. Now that that kid is a teenager, they’ve decided now is probably the best time to finally call curtains: After 16 years, Microsoft and NBC are parting ways in their joint news venture, and NBC is getting custody of their kid, MSNBC.com.
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Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview]
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