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Computer Gamers Want to Preserve History

2012-05-30T10:00:00.000-07:00

At the 2012 O'Reilly Maker Faire, there were all types of makers in the Tech Pavilion. Makers are not people who make physical objects but also make their dreams a reality. We interviewed Jeff Lin of the Digital Game Museum, whose organization's dream is to preserve computer game history here in the Silicon Valley. If you love gaming, you can contribute to their cause at www.digitalgamemuseum.org/.

Facebook Sandwich Anyone? NS Tech News

2012-05-29T08:09:00.000-07:00

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Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our Eyes http://read.bi/KxNu2C
The Facebook Issue No One Wants To Discuss bit.ly/KLj4MB via @SocialSteve
Pandora soars after beating analysts' estimates http://bit.ly/JyMdXP
Facebook Beefs up Mobile Photo Sharing With Camera bit.ly/LdXOOz via @pcworld
How Tim Cook is changing Apple - Fortune Tech http://bit.ly/JZT3Z7
Amazon warns protesters to stay off Seattle campus bit.ly/KysKqp via @geekwire

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Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors http://bit.ly/K7nQoF
Multimillionaire Software Exec Arrested in LEGO-Thieving Bar-Code Scam bit.ly/KFGr65
LG's 5-inch 1080p HD display out does Apple's Retina Display http://bit.ly/KAKtyI
Comcast launches a new cable box worthy of taking on Roku, Apple TV bit.ly/JhzmsIvia @VentureBeat
Bad news for site owners and mobile users: The average web page is now 1 MB http://is.gd/Ppvdzl
AP launches entertainment photo venture | @scoopit via @yurikageyama bit.ly/LkUjWE

Social Greg’s Tip of the Week: SocialGreg's Drippler tip of the Week: Pay attention to App Permissions bit.ly/K2Hmkr
Adolfo’s Tip of the Week: GiddyUp http://bit.ly/K2t591

Whats Blue, Nerdy, Fun to make, and saves lives? Luma League

2012-05-27T10:31:00.000-07:00

Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews the Founder of Luma League, Tim Z Falconer at Maker Faire.

Started in April 2011 in Alameda, CA, Luma League has made and deployed bilirubin phototherapy lights (commonly called “bili lights”), and the calibration meters that go with them, to hospitals in Achham, Nepal; Goma, D.R. Congo; and St.-Marc, Haiti.

iPhone/iPad Interface Makes Rubberband Power Obsolete

2012-05-26T06:00:00.000-07:00

Another Nerdstalker interview from the 2012 O'Reilly Maker Faire. Greg Viloria aka SocialGreg interviews Kazu Terasaki of GluMotor. Typical maker, Terusaki does it for the love of his hobby. GluMotor is an Open Source interface from KTLaboratory. No need for rubberband power anymore.

Need an iPhone Microscope? UC Berkeley Researchers say you do

2012-05-24T18:41:00.000-07:00

Our Social Greg at Maker Faire 2012, interviews Clay Reber with a research group from UC Berkeley who has created an application turning your iPhone into a microscope called CellScope. It is fascinating to see the iPhone turn into a applications engine. Applications of CellScope can be mobile disease diagnosis, water analysis, and field research. Hear Clay's take on how their device can change the world.

Yahoo debuts Axis visual search for all your devices

2012-05-23T19:38:00.002-07:00

Yahoo! Axis is a new kind of browser that redefines what it means to search and browse the web. Watch this video to see how Axis works on your computer, iPhone and iPad.

Maker Faire Interview: Kurt Opsahl of Electronic Frontier Foundation

2012-05-22T00:10:00.001-07:00

Our SocialGreg interviewed Kurt Opsahl with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the 2012 O'Reilly Maker Faire. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is "Protecting Freedom Where Law and Technology Collide." Kurt gave some insight on the foundation and how their organization protects online privacy rights of the individual.

Insanely Great Motion Controller for your Computer

2012-05-21T12:38:00.001-07:00

San Francisco, CA based LEAP has released and incredible motion sensor for controlling your computer and more. See the demo below, goodbye mouse and keyboard.

Educreations - A Free Screen Capture App For Educators

2012-05-21T07:37:00.000-07:00

Nerd Stalker interview with Co-Founder of Educreations Chris Streeter at the 2012 Maker Faire. Teach what you know. Learn what you don't. Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser.

Watch the Maker Faire Talks (Video)

2012-05-20T08:10:00.001-07:00

See all the amazing Maker Faire talks here.

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Apple Microsoft Yahoo Google Facebook love/hate Kaboom

2012-05-15T21:21:00.001-07:00

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Adolfo Foronda (@nerdstalker) and Greg Viloria (@SocialGreg) Weekly Picks for the Nerd Stalker Techweek Podcast:

Apple to ditch Google Maps in iOS 6, use in-house mapping solution http://is.gd/kBOztW (00:37)
Where To Now For Yahoo? Thompson Out, Loeb & Co In; Yahoo CEO blames search firm for error bit.ly/JIQQ10 via @SFBusinessTi; Yahoo CEO apologizes -- for being a distraction | @scoopit via @DocDoCc bit.ly/IzO0LH / Yahoo CEO blames search firm for error bit.ly/JIQQ10 via @SFBusinessTimes (3:40)
Americans Now Spend More Time On Facebook Mobile Than Its Website http://is.gd/UFC1Qx (8:06)
The Password Protection Act of 2012: Latest Attempt To Protect Facebook Users

bit.ly/JmJLEu @allfacebook (12:15)

Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition | ZDNet

http://zd.net/IMMfts (14:13)

Chirpify lands $1.3 million to sell music and concert tickets through Twitter

bit.ly/IFJbQX via @geekwire (19:38)

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Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD
LinkedIn Introduces 2 New Features – Targeted Updates & Follower Statistics bit.ly/J1HTVb via @technorati
MIT Media Lab creates interface with magical antigravity ball | DVICE http://bit.ly/KbOgAL
Son Using Twitter To Find Missing Dad Needs Your Help bit.ly/KO15R1 via @alltwtr

Social Greg’s Tip of the Week: @hsmt Cacoo Gives You a Virtual Whiteboard for Google+ Hangouts http://bit.ly/JOM3eu (26:58)
Adolfo’s Tip of the Week: Instacorder http://is.gd/4ob1rq (28:28)
Hurry get your Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th tickets, early bird is already sold out. http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2012/

Drippler Provides Content Based on Mobile Device Detection

2012-05-12T14:54:00.000-07:00

Matan Talmi contacted me on a new mobile service that his company, Drippler, just launched. Drippler is a service that brings relevant content about the devices you love. Their app provides mobile users with personalized updates on their mobile devices, and helps them make the most of their devices, with the latest tips & tricks, firmware & software updates, reviews & comparisons, troubleshooting & tech-support, apps & games, accessories and more.
So if you are into iPhone, iPad, or HTC whatever, this service aggregates all the device content for you. And if you love more than one device, you can follow 2 or more devices.

What is cool about Drippler's latest release on Google Play, Drippler now brings content to your device by automatically detects your device and provides the news updates according to that device. It's #12 on the top free news app on Google Play and has a rating of 4.8.

For more information, you can see their website, www.drippler.com.

Comparing Android to iPhone is So over

2012-05-05T11:11:00.003-07:00

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Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker gives his thoughts on the state of iPhone vs Android comparisons.

An HTML5 Media Center, Senses

2012-04-29T18:32:00.000-07:00

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Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews Pablo Neirotti, the creator of Senses, an HTML5 Media Center.

For more information on what Pablo is up to see below:

ArtPulse artpulse.me

Pablo's current projects:

Senses sensesproject.com
Buglets an HTML 5 game - currently being rewritten, what you see online now is an engine prototype.
Pixelsize pixelsize.net

Artise is the current platform for Senses and Buglets. Pixelsize (Pablo and two other collaborators) will be a new Object-Oriented platform and product that is somewhat related to Senses. The new platform will replace Artise on all current projects, anyone who is enthusiastic about Object-Oriented development will, "drop their jaws when they see it" as Pablo said.

Follow Pablo on Twitter: @PabloNeirotti

Forget Windows Phone Microsoft is an iOS and Android app company.

2012-04-27T11:54:00.000-07:00

listen to ‘Forget Windows Phone Microsoft is an iOS and Android app company.’ on Audioboo

First off sorry if the audio quality was all crackly.

The gist of this post is that I've come to realization that Microsoft's Mobile business is not going to be driven by Windows Phone (which I think is DOA) but rather that it will be no more than an app developer for iOS and Android. You may have noticed some Microsoft apps on iOS as of late like One Note and some bits of Office, I've heard that anything that will be on iOS will also be built for Android as well. I think this will be a huge part of Microsofts business go forward and strategically it makes a ton of sense, the question is if the internal battles will allow for this to progress or will they be stubborn and kill the effort?

SF Japan Night Recap

2012-04-25T21:37:00.002-07:00

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Sleipnir (@fenrir_official) is a free web browser. You can access their own bookmarks from different devices. ht.ly/awwWo #sfnt

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Sleipnir web browser. 30 million downloads! #sfnt http://pic.twitter.com/ACoSQqdI

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Introduction to Sleipnir 3 for Windows Web Browser

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Fully customizable web browser Sleipnir 2 Features of Sleipnir 3 for Windows Rich Full Screen Mode Sleipnir 3 for Windows isn't just powe...

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piaScore: iPad app showing your music; flip the page with head movements! #sfnt http://pic.twitter.com/EAEHoJFp

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The 'piaScore' is an iPad application for browsing music score. The piaScore's concept is 'MUSIC SCORE FROM EVERYWHERE ...

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Monaca, development for mobile platforms. Fast, simple. Just learn HTML5. #sfnt

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Astroid Mining, Win Phone, CodeNow, HTML5 Media Center

2012-04-23T07:25:00.001-07:00

Adolfo Foronda (@nerdstalker) and Greg Viloria (@SocialGreg) Weekly Picks for the Nerd Stalker Techweek Podcast:

A tale of two acquisitions: A few thoughts on the $1 billion bets by Microsoft and Facebook bit.ly/HyjHoU
Windows Phone trainwreck rollout? My thoughts.
White House ask: Tell us your startup story | @scoopit bit.ly/IcaRjh / Speeding Up Innovation and Entrepreneurship With the White House's Startup America Initiative huff.to/HIJYof via @HuffPostBiz
Mystery company backed by James Cameron and Google executives may be an asteroid mining project. http://is.gd/SHhrCP

Speed round, what our community is talking about and wants to hear about:

Facebook App Bug Can Steal Your Account Info—If a Hacker Grabs Your Phone [Security] bit.ly/HjMKKY HTML5 Media Center http://sensesproject.com/
Carriers Band to Fight Cellphone Theftht.ly/1KiIoB via @allthingsd
Mix.js http://is.gd/T6OtnZ
Former RIM CEO Resigned Because His Ideas Were Too Good bit.ly/HG3W0Z via @Gizmodo

Social Greg’s Tip of the Week:
CODENOW: A STARTUP NON-PROFIT THAT TEACHES KIDS TO CODE bit.ly/I6sQYh via @nerdstalker
Adolfo’s Tip of the Week: Add Hands-Free Reading to Any Web Page http://is.gd/Er1q0u

btrax’s Japanese Entrepreneur Week:

April 24: [Event] Next Business Dojo on 4/24 is "Effective Presentation Skill in America" by btrax's CEO - BrandonKHill! ht.ly/afiH
April 25: SF New Tech: the 4th SF New Tech Japan Night
April 26: learn how to navigate finding cross-cultural talent @btrax & @AsiaSociety's event 4/26 in SF: ht.ly/agC0H Spread the word!
April 27: SF Japan Night After Party @ CitizenSpace

May 10 - Taste of Potrero benefit for public school. http://www.tasteofpotrero.com

#nrdstk reminder, Nerdstalker.com, iTunes audio and video (Rate Us) and YouTube Channel “NerdstalkerTV”.

Windows Phone Rollout Is A Train Wreck

2012-04-18T21:11:00.000-07:00

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Nerd Stalker Interview - Ahmed Siddiqui of Startup Weekend

2012-04-07T18:51:00.017-07:00

Greg Viloria aka @SocialGreg interviews Ahmed Siddiqui of SF Bay Area Startup Weekend. Ahmed discusses his path from a "big pond" to a "little pond" and Startup Weekend. Ahmed also discusses the upcoming MEGA Startup Weekend - the largest Startup Weekend event in the world!

Rim Win Phone Dead, Facebook Search, AirBnB Tech Week

2012-04-06T13:35:00.002-07:00

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Adolfo Foronda (@nerdstalker) and Greg Viloria (@SocialGreg) Weekly Picks for the Nerd Stalker Techweek Podcast:

How Serious Is Facebook About Search? http://selnd.com/Huh71J by greg sterling
Japanese Court Tells Google to Stop Search Autocomplete in Japan - http://bit.ly/H7bnOW via @geekosystem
Research In Motion is dead http://bit.ly/H4bMTP via BGR
Do Not Track: FTC calls on Congress, firms to protect consumer privacy | via @ABroaderView http://bit.ly/GYoos5
Airbnb, other sites owe city hotel tax, SF says

Speed round, what our community is talking about and wants to hear about:

Tweet Seats: A Special Section In Theaters For… | Bit Rebels http://bit.ly/GTJdaz
Lumia 900 Nokia Windows Phone
Half of U.S. homes own Apple products | @scoopit via @rsaltzhe http://bit.ly/H2ssbl
Selling used Android phones poses huge identity theft risk, expert says http://bit.ly/H7Erkk via BGR oh and Instagram is now on Android
Yahoo lays off 2000
Microsoft releases Star Wars for Kinect

Social Greg’s Drippler Tip of the Week:
Benchmarked: New iPad’s A5X vs iPad 2′s A5 vs Tegra 3 http://ht.ly/a0gil
Adolfo’s Tip of the Week:
PubMyCal Sends Readable Google Calendar Itineraries by Email http://www.pubmycal.com/

SF New Tech: What’s the 411 event, 4/25 - the 4th SF New Tech Japan Night
May 10 - Taste of Potrero benefit for public school. http://www.tasteofpotrero.com
#nrdstk reminder, Nerdstalker.com, iTunes audio and video (Rate Us) and YouTube Channel “NerdstalkerTV”.

Gazelle is Killing the Good program

2012-04-06T12:25:00.000-07:00

We have received reports the sell your electronics for money company Gazelle is sending the follow email out to some. It's a shame as this was a good program for fundraising opportunities.

"Thank you very much for participating in the Gazelle For Good donation drive program. We are writing to inform you that due to very limited overall usage of the Gazelle for Good program we will be suspending all donation drives effective Monday, May 7th 2012.
What does this mean for you?
Please be sure to discontinue any marketing of your drive prior to May 7th.
As of May 7th, it will no longer be possible to access your personal drive page and make new donations. Visits to the URL for your drive will redirect to a page explaining that Gazelle for Good drives are no longer active.
While it will no longer be possible to accept new donations to your drive after May 7th, rest assured we will continue to process and deliver payments for any outstanding items received for your drive.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

World Backup Day - Interview with CEO of Backblaze

2012-03-29T17:38:00.003-07:00

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Adolfo Foronda of Nerd Stalker interviews Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman.

Backblaze announced it is leading the charge in supporting World Backup Day on March 31st as the Presenting Sponsor of this seminal backup event. As an online backup service provider, Backblaze offers unlimited online backup for $5 per month per computer including their “Locate My Lost Computer” feature. The Backblaze sponsorship will help enable the World Backup Day message to reach millions of people worldwide, reminding them to backup the photos, videos, files and memories stored on their desktops, laptops, and external drives.

Math and WTF is a UDID - Nerd Stalker Tech Week

2012-03-28T13:54:00.000-07:00

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It took iOS 5.1 just 15 days to match the adoption rate of the most widely deployed Android OS. http://is.gd/8gHmgo
New Facebook – Interpretation for Brands bit.ly/xFwyDa via @SocialSteve
Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs http://is.gd/UaukS6
Apple, Amazon, Google or Comcast -- Who Will 'Win' TV 2.0? bit.ly/H0usAt
Blip sheds partners: No money in Smart TV http://is.gd/myX4hC

Speed round, what our community is talking about and wants to hear about:

Happy Sixth Birthday, Twitter dthin.gs/GKQDOq
Pair Is A Path For The Two Of Us http://tcrn.ch/H1C0Df
Google Voice VM now part of Android’s phone app bit.ly/GRpZN4 or Sorry carriers, 9 out of 10 tablets sold are Wi-Fi bit.ly/GAJdZo
Microsoft Censors Pirate Bay Links in Windows Live Messenger http://bit.ly/GNd8MO

Social Greg’s Drippler Tip of the Week: How to Transfer All Data from Old iPad / iPad 2 to New iPad 3! http://ht.ly/9RQU9

Adolfo’s Tip of the Week: XBMC 11.0 Eden Just Released http://j.mp/H12gyd

SF New Tech: What’s the 411 event,4/25 - the 4th SF New Tech Japan Night with the Semi-finals in Tokyo on 3/30.

March 27 - Business Dojo - GlobalBridgeHR and btrax brings a Japanese event to Citizen Space - businessdojoevents.com The owner of Yoshi’s Night Club will speak at this Month’s event, Yoshi Akiba.

May 10 - Taste of Potrero benefit for public school. http://www.tasteofpotrero.com

#nrdstk reminder, Nerdstalker.com, iTunes audio and video (Rate Us) and YouTube Channel “NerdstalkerTV”.

Nerd Stalker iPhone App Review: KAYAC's MusicParty

2012-03-20T16:04:00.009-07:00

Japanese mobiles apps are interesting. We found this iPhone app to be a very fresh departure from the others. MusicParty is a unique iPhone app which allows a user to share their iTunes mobile music with up to four of their friends.

This iPhone app uses wireless or bluetooth to share music. To use this app, the user will create a “Party” and phones that have that app loaded and active can see the “Party” and request music to be played on the user’s iPhone. The user who created the “Party” can select which music will be played on their phone.

We tried this app with bluetooth sharing of five iPhones and it does work. Any local song on the users iPhone can be shared with the "Party" creator's iPhone as long as that app is active and the others join the "Party." Bluetooth is limited to around 15-20ft in our test. So, being in a car, small room, bluetooth will work. In our test of wireless, it can be much further. At a big event, this will be helpful. We also look forward for the english information site to be more localized as the some of the phone shots were in Japanese.

This app is available in the iTunes App Store.

For more information on KAYAC, visit there site here.

Amazon Milks the iPad and more - Tech Week News

2012-03-18T15:17:00.000-07:00

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Adolfo Foronda (@nerdstalker) and Greg Viloria (@SocialGreg) Weekly Picks for the Nerd Stalker Techweek Podcast:

iPad 3 review

Amazon’s brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2 http://bit.ly/xjqtnG

Twitter Buys Posterous (So You’d Better Move Your Content To Tumblr ASAP) bit.ly/wiH6lN
Google Acquires Mission Startup That “Accomplished Nothing” http://is.gd/OkJWAX
Yahoo Sues Facebook Over Patents Related to Advertising bit.ly/xfWOSe

Google Plus: The problem isn’t design, it’s a lack of demand http://is.gd/n37epV

Speed round, what our community is talking about and wants to hear about:

Airline Passengers Given iPads To Stream In-Flight Entertainment bit.ly/zKee5S

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses http://ow.ly/9DCYQ

Siri reportedly struggles in its Japanese debut bit.ly/xbDOd8

Microsoft: No new Xbox hardware this year http://bit.ly/yEIDQC

Social Greg’s Tip of the Week: Transfer files inside Facebook, thanks to Pipe bit.ly/zXZHGU

Adolfo’s Tip of the Week: Responsive.is: Display and present responsive web designs

March 21 - SF New Tech March 21st Spring Fling! and also a anniversary show www.sfnewtech.com

March 27 - Business Dojo - GlobalBridgeHR and btrax brings a Japanese event to Citizen Space - businessdojoevents.com The owner of Yoshi’s Night Club will speak at this Month’s event, Yoshi Akiba.

May 10 - Taste of Potrero benefit for public school. http://www.tasteofpotrero.com

#nrdstk reminder, Nerdstalker.com, iTunes audio and video (Rate Us) and YouTube Channel “NerdstalkerTV”.