Talking about the future is nonsense because it is, even at it’s best, informed guesswork. We can talk about now, interesting, unusual things, happening now, but that rarely seems to...

Read More: The God Project: The first step into the future of multimedia books

Zynga held its "Unleashed" event today in San Francisco, and has announced quite a few things. This is the first event in Zynga's new offices. The company launched 10 new...

Read More: Zynga announces Project Z, an XBox Live competitor, at its Unleashed Event

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced the new Facebook Timeline last week at F8, the Facebook community has been abuzz about the new design and its implications.  While many of us have been sitting around waiting until our own profiles switch over to the new Facebook timeline, the crew at McCann Erickson in Tel Aviv have already been hard at work creating their first campaign with the new timeline—a Facebook timeline mash-up that brings together all ten members of their team on one (sorta creepy) [...]

Read More: Ad Agency Gets A Little Creepy With New Facebook Timeline Mash-Up Project

This Facebook mobile developers page is pretty interesting, first of all because it starts with a statistic, "350 million users access Facebook from a mobile device every month," which was just released and then because it describes Facebook mobile web app features and includes screenshots that are unlike anything we've seen live.

Read More: This Sure Looks A Lot Like Facebook’s Project Spartan [Screenshots]

Photo by: Ofer VaknineBay’s acquisition of The Gifts Project started about eight months ago, and the deal finally closed this week. The selling price is rumored anywhere between ten million and twenty million dollars. The company was started two years ago by Ron and Maya Gura with Erez Dickman and Matan Bar.


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If leaves can have a social network, why not cars? And, what if this network could reduce the amount of fuel your car burns by 20%? That's what researchers at MIT and Princeton found when a smartphones mounted on car dashboards were used to form a network that collected information about traffic lights and advised drivers to slow down to avoid waiting at red lights.


Read More: SignalGuru: Social Network for Cars Research Project Found 20% Gas Savings

Joshua Schachter, the founder of social networking service Delicious, has unveiled his newest project. It's called Jig and it's a site where you can post what you need. When you go to the page, it simply says "I need" with a box for you to type your need into. As of right now, some of ...

Read More: Delicious Creator Unveils New Project – “Jig”

Joshua Schachter, the founder of social networking service Delicious, has unveiled his newest project. It's called Jig and it's a site where you can post what you need. When you go to the page, it simply says "I need" with a box for you to type your need into. As of right now, some of ...

Read More: Delicious Creator Unveils New Project – “Jig”

Normal programming is postponed for the day to make way from an important request from our friend Tim Malbon, co-founder of Made by Many: Good for Nothing asked us to help them to raise some money by making stuff. There is a HUGE need: the UN has declared a famine in East Africa and it's massive: [...]

Read More: Introducing the 50/50 project

You've probably seen or read about apps and services that aggregate photos to get multiple perspectives of a single place or event at a place. You may also be familiar with projects that rely on people donating a portion of their computer's time for massively difficult problems like detecting an extra-terrestrial signal or protein folding. Researchers at Rice University have combined these concepts to provide a way to search photos stored locally on smartphones to find objects (including people [...]

Read More: Theia: Research Project to Search Photos on Smartphones in Real-time