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The four ways ideas are most likely to make the transition from concept to product or service: Assignment, Sponsorship, Adoption, Spinout. When you think about your innovation process you need to consider how your organization prefers to convert ideas and how executives prefer to get involved. Let’s examine each briefly. via Blogging Innovation » Four Ways Ideas are Selected for...

As parts of the HTML5 spec is slowly making its way from working draft to W3C recommendation and browser implementations are getting more and more solid – the urge to make use of these new features grows strong. Thoughts on HTML5 Canvas in Fantasy Interactive |...

New Technology Enhances Travel Tool In Time For Spring/Summer Planning AUSTIN, Texas, March 10 /PRNewswire/ — TravelTex.com, Texas Tourism’s official Web site, is a comprehensive source for Texas travel planning, featuring over 400 cities and thousands of activities. Featuring cities, attractions and events, offering discount packages and a hotel booking engine, the redesigned site even further enhances the user experience. “Since TravelTex.com is an important marketing tool, we strive to provide the most relevant information and cutting-edge technology to our visitors,” said Julie Chase, Chief Marketing Officer, Texas Office of the Governor, Economic Development and Tourism Division. “Thanks to this redesign, planning a vacation in the Lone Star State is...

Connecting Real Life and the Digital WorldScan Tags from your mobile phone for instant access to information, websites, videos, reviews, and more.Sign in to Tag Manager to create or edit your Tags, manage Categories and view Reports. via Microsoft Tag – Connecting Real Life and the Digital World using Mobile Barcodes!....

The next generation TUIO 2.0 specification is intended to cover a much wider scope of tangible user interfaces and interactive surfaces. The present TUIO 1.1 protocol has been mainly used for multi-touch interfaces, but also defines the basic component descriptors for tagged and untagged physical objects. TUIO2 extends these existing component descriptors with several attributes, and also defines new descriptors for additional interface component types within an improved message syntax. Continue reading …. 04.01.2010 read past news in the archive via TUIO....

Filthy Rich Portlets with ICEfaces and Liferay When a portlet form is submitted, all the other portlets on the same portal page are forced to redraw themselves. In this presentation, filmed at the recent JSFOne Conference, I show you how ICEfaces Direct-to-DOM rendering provides a cure for this disruptive end-user experience, and how ICEfaces Ajax Push supplies a rich alternative for inter-portlet communication. Demonstrations are performed within Liferay Portal, a JSR 286 (Portlet 2.0) compliant portlet container. via Filthy Rich Portlets with ICEfaces and Liferay | Javalobby....

There is a potential side-effect of the new facebook “like” button, which has currently not reached public awareness, but it probably should.It starts when you leave the facebook website. I usually don’t log out, my friends don’t log out, and in fact most people don’t log out. We all know this is too much of a hassle.Now, if I visit a website which has integrated the “like” iframe, facebook might just know that I am there. Because I didn’t log out before. And why shouldn’t facebook track the referrer combined with the user id of every requested iframe? via Facebook’s watching you, brother. « IO 9elements....

The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects have highlights and shadows just like objects on your desk might have, and they have textures that emulate real objects from glass to sandpaper and everything in between. Designing beautiful user interfaces has more to do with the why than the how. via Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces — Flyosity: Mac & iPhone Interface Design....

One of our favorite things about CSS3 is the addition of RGBA, a color mode that adds alpha-blending to your favorite CSS properties. We've kicked the tires on it a bit with our own projects and have found that it helps streamline our CSS and makes scaling things like buttons very easy. To show you how, we've cooked up an example with some super awesome, scalable buttons. via ZURB – Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA....

Orientation Demo with Firefox 3.6....

Take a look at the newest Tech Game consoleSAN FRANCISCO–Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger. Its too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever. OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system–seven years in the works–that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels. The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand...

Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I'm asked is often “So when's Google Maps going to add biking directions?” We're big biking fans too, so we've been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don't want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now! via Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps....

TRON: LEGACY via YouTube – TRON: LEGACY – Official Trailer....