You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it's a self-defeating goal. You can't do it.

No, but you might rock five minutes a day.

Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).

Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that matters. Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference.

And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more than just about anyone else.

"Right now, in this world, we think about data as being this curse, we talk about the curse of information overload, drowning in data. What if we can turn that upside down, so that instead of navigating from one thing to the next, we get used to the habit of being able to go from many things to many things and then being able to see the patterns that were otherwise hidden."

Watch the video of the talk below.

What will it enable in the world of data visualization that was not possible before?

The company provides mobile tickets services for airlines like Austrian Airlines and British Midlands Airways and it sent out over 600,000 mobile boarding passes last year. This is obviously a nascent industry but it is expected to grow rapidly. Trinity said its uptake comes solely from consumer demand because there was no massive marketing push to get the word out about mobile ticketing.

“The massive growth in mobile ticketing is completely driven by the consumer’s need for the fastest, easiest and most affordable way to get tickets,” said Rob Clegg, Trinity’s commercial director, in a written statement.

I’ve used mobile boarding passes the last three times I’ve flown and it has been a decidedly mixed bag. On one cross-country flight, I had to check luggage anyways, so there wasn’t really a time-saving aspect. On the last two shorter flights I’ve taken without check-in luggage, it’s a convenient way to get your ticket or boarding pass if you’re not around a printer. Unfortunately, the airport staff wasn’t the most tech-savvy folks around and it took five scan attempts before I was allowed into the security area.

Overall, I’d say mobile ticketing is convenient but it’s not game-changing. Still, the technology is expanding to more and more airlines and it’s always nice to have more options. Any experiences with mobile tickets and boarding passes? Share them in the comments.

[Via Trinity Mobile, photo via USA Today]

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• Delta Air Lines rolls out cellphone boarding pass at LaGuardia
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• South Korean airlines to launch mobile check-in services
• Air France and Klm expand electronic boarding pass on mobile devices
• Continental Airlines trials paperless boarding pass using mobile phones and barcodes

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Swedish computer vision specialists Polar Rose combined forces with interface designers TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) to create the Recognizr as a prototype application for Android phones to show off Polar Rose’s mobile face recognition library. Polar Rose’s software recognizes individuals, while TAT’s interface uses augmented reality to show profile information from sites like Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn and the latest status updates from the recognized person.

Since in real life it’s unlikely that you’ll go around taking pictures of random strangers, at least unless you can do so discreetly, I asked Polar Rose CTO Jan-Erik Solem what he sees as the main applications of Recognizr. He told me that the most requested scenario is to tag the recognized person in the photo you’ve just taken or to add them to your social networks.

Recognizr uses FaceLib, a mobile face recognition library from Polar Rose, which is available for Android and iPhone. FaceLib can recognize faces in photo or video but, in common with other facial recognition products, is  more accurate for photos. Recognizr also uses Polar Rose’s server-side solution FaceCloud because you can’t store profiles of all potential matches in the phone — although recognizing people who are already in the phone’s address book can be handled locally on the device.

The quality of the image you’re targeting with your camera largely determines the accuracy of recognition. In still images, the main problems are poor lighting and focus for some devices. Motion blur and poor lighting are the most difficult cases if running in video mode, where the resolution is also much lower.

Polar Rose has a team of 17 based in Malmö, Sweden and received $5.1M in a first round of funding from Nordic Venture Partners.

Companies: Polar Rose, TAT

There’s about 130 sites on there right now and I’ll be adding progressively more in the next few weeks.

If you want your site added, feel free to drop me a line @uxurls, but I’m not making any promises. This site is really just intended as a way for me to share the sites I’m reading at the moment, and it’s definitely not intended as an exhaustive catalog of all things UX.

I hope you find it useful!

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