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Rose and Lena are live in the studio this Jan 7th 2013!

We discuss meme’s and remix culture.

Know your meme – http://knowyourmeme.com/

The internet is abuzz with conversations about the gear from CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which will run tomorrow, Jan 8th until the 11th. Read all about it at engadget.

I hadn’t heard about Tobii REX, an eye-tracking peripheral which made it’s debut at last years CES. It’s a small USB peripheral, a little thicker than a pen, which you attach to a computer display and adds eye tracking technology to any windows 8 machine.

I’m looking forward to hearing more about Plastic Logic’s flexible e-paper touchscreens which look really cool, at 10.7 inches in working concept prototype forms.

Vuzix Smart Glasses M100 to battle Google Glass for Android eyewear supremacy

Last year at CES we heard about Xpal’s SpareOne disaster-ready cellphone, a GSM phone with the ability to run from a single AA battery for 15 years. It is now expected to be available early in 2013 and it’s price tag seems to have doubled.

As a new tablet owner, who has a low amount of memory in which to save things, I found the
Seagate 1tb hard drive with 10 hours of battery life at CES.

Walt Disney is going to use RFID bands, MagicBands for the Disney Experience.
http://www.insidethemagic.net/2013/01/walt-disney-world-announces-mymagic-with-magicband-adding-nextgen-access-to-theme-parks-fastpass-and-interactivity/

There are a number of Starbucks that accept square payments (squareup.com), square being the little brick that plugs into the headphone plug of compatible devices (including iphones running iOS 4 and up, all generations of the ipad, and android devices running android 2.2 and up). It’s a cute device, about an inch square and a few mm thick, which charges 2.75% per swipe for all major credit cards, or a flat monthly fee. The device itself is now being sold at over 7 thousand coffee shops. Buy the means to accept credit cards along with your latte?

A sign of the change in media, Disney has announced that the film Wreck-It Ralph will be available to buy as a download and on streaming services weeks before the disc is released. We are likely to hear more about Disney’s plans in the online streaming market at CES.

As long time listeners will know, I love TED Talks, so I’m pretty excited about TED-Ed, a new educational TED site.

Rose talks about edx.org

Lena talks about 3DEA a pop up 3d printer store in NYC
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/12/04/3dea-3d-printing-pop-up-store-opens-in-nyc/

Cadbury invents a high melting point chocolate.

Instagram updated their term of service due to public demand.

Facebook has better privacy controls now.

Boeing uses potatoes to simulate humans in test of Wi-Fi signals

Martin joined the conversation at 7:15

Martin talks about Randy Zuckerberg’s drama

Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi complains of privacy breach after a photo she posted of her family jokingly reacting to new ‘Poke’ application gets leaked

Tom of Myspace talks about Instragram

Martin believes that Facebook is going down an evil path, and that there will be a mass exodus. Martin suspects that Google+ will win out.

Martin and Lena talk about google reader.

Lena asks Martin his feelings on the Gangnam Style youtube music video hitting one billion views. Martin says that humor wins in the game of viral video and viral marketing. We switch to talking about dancing and dancing on the kinect for xbox.

Lena talks about the Buzzed Buzzer and about the last few episodes and giving excuses for their not having any show notes on this blog.

Martin talks about Pinterest and what housewives are up to on the internet. He says that pinterest feels more VIP than a regular beta invite.

We also talk about tumblr online.

http://new.livestream.com/newyearseve/nye2013

Text message google at 466453

Lena talks about freedom pop and their freemium service. She has been enjoying it.

Martin and Lena wish everyone a happy new year and will be back next week to talk more tech.

Finding Black Owned Businesses with Your Iphone : http://www.bet.com/news/national/2012/12/03/new-iphone-app-points-out-black-owned-businesses.html

Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now (2011)

How to Make the Internet Less Irritating : http://lifehacker.com/5783800/how-to-turn-all-your-facebook-notifications-into-a-daily-digest

Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology (2005)

Danny Hillis: Back to the Future of 1994

Staples will be offering 3D Printing : http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/29/staples-easy-3d-printing-service/

Pope reaches out to followers on Twitter from AJE – Al Jazeera English

Twenty years after the birth of SMS, its creator consents to a text-only interview from Engadget by Steve Dent

Japan unveils prototype of new maglev train, promises speeds of up to 311 mph from Engadget by Nicole Lee

Atari celebrates 40 years of Pong with new, free iOS Pong game, custom portable Xbox 360 from Engadget by Ben Gilbert

NYC Museum of Modern Art opens game collection with 14 classics, exhibiting in March 2013 from Engadget by Ben Gilbert

Apple begins selling unlocked iPhone 5 in the US, starting from $649 (update: LTE band questions)from Engadget by Jon Fingas

Xbox SmartGlass for Android updated with official 7-inch tablet support from Engadget by Richard Lawler

Politics and cellphones : Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone (2012)

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world (2011)

Polymer Vision reportedly shut down, along with its dream of rollable e-ink displays from Engadget by Jon Fingas

Netflix Finally Comes to Ubuntu in the Form of an Unofficial Desktop App from Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon

On the show:

Hackathons –

Hackathons – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon

Holiday Hackathon for Social Good – NYC WebVisions Saturday, December 8, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (EST) New York, NY – wvnyc-holiday-hackathon.eventbrite.com/

Occupy Sandy and Technology –

nytechresponds.org

http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/

The occupysandy wedding registry’s –

Wedding Registry for 520 Clinton, a main distribution center

Wedding Registry for New Jersey

Wedding Registry for Rockaways

Wedding Registry for Staten Island

Jeremy Hammon –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond

https://www.facebook.com/supporthammond

Anonymous Solidarity Network, 11/20 at 10am, 500 Pearl Street, Foley Square Manhattan New York, Free Jeremy Hammond Rally

The hearing is in room 12A at 11am at the Federal Court House in Manhattan at 500 Pearl Street.

http://freeanons.org/events/jeremy-hammond-bail-hearing-rally/

David Pataus –

How to keep what happened to CIA Directory David Petraeus from happening to you!  – http://lifehacker.com/5960080/how-cia-director-david-petraeus-was-traced-through-email-and-how-to-keep-it-from-happening-to-you

Spam resistant email, email that doesn’t last – lifehacker.com/305933/get-a-15+minute-email-address-from-guerrillamail

Continue reading ‘Show Notes – November 19th, 2012’

Lena discusses some of the technologies which played a role in people’s ability to be informed about what was going on with Hurricane Sandy.

• http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/how-to-follow-hurricane-sandy-online/

Martin and Lena discuss technology during the storm and in its aftermath.  Martin and Lena agree that old phones are more robust in emergency situations than smart phones.

We began to touch on the gas shortage in NYC and NJ – http://gothamist.com/2012/11/02/with_gas_shortage_waits_22-plus_blo.php

At 7:30 Mike Street ( @MrMikeStreet on twitter, organizer of https://www.facebook.com/Harlemny ) called in and discussed the techcrunch article

• http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/04/greed-trumps-race-how-to-be-a-successful-african-american-in-silicon-valley/
• http://www.meetup.com/blacksintech/

Jim Neusom of City Lights Software called in at 7:45 to talk about

• http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/04/greed-trumps-race-how-to-be-a-successful-african-american-in-silicon-valley/
• Urban Tech Fairs, and the Big Apple Urban Tech Fair – http://urbantechfair.digistarsolutions.com/

1-866-ourvote to help you guide through whatever problems you have.  If you have a problem at the poll call, don’t leave until it’s dealt with.

http://vote.nyc.ny.us

We won’t be on the air today, because of hurricane Sandy.

Mashable’s has a good guide to following the storm online.  http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/how-to-follow-hurricane-sandy-online/

This guide is useful if you have power and connectivity.  Hopefully dear reader, you have and will retain your power and connectivity.

I, Lena, prefer to follow the humorous tweets of SandysHurricane http://twitter.com/SandysHurricane

Find below some of the originally scheduled content for today’s show.

Technocolor Radioshow Theme

http://theweek.com/article/index/235254/top-5-final-debate-memes-horses-and-bayonets-and-more

Netflix to bring closed captioning to all video content by 2014

Learn Popcorn – live annotation and video.

Virgin Media extends free tube WiFi for all until 2013

Folding@Home packs up on PlayStation 3: over 100 million computation hours added to research

Canopy’s Sensus gaming case protects your iPhone 4 / 4S, adds plenty of new touch sensors (update)

Tesla gets $10 million grant from California to help with Model X production

Foxconn admits child labor laws breached by use of underage interns

Google tests searches that include Calendar, Drive in results

YouTube Campaigns lets nonprofits draw our interest without the telethons

Google Knowledge Graph explains related content, finds the six degrees with less Bacon

Google nabs design patent for left-eyed Google Glass, frees southpaws from tyranny

iTwin SecureBox adds hardware encryption to your Dropbox account

News to be talked about on the show:

• Ten One ships $80 Pogo Connect, a pressure-sensitive Bluetooth 4.0 stylus for iPad
• Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril – Jennifer Waters’s Consumer Confidential – MarketWatch
• Easily Hide Photos On Your iPhone By Cropping Them Down [Video]
• About Today’s Terrific Google Doodle: Winsor McCay And “Little Nemo”

Subject to discuss

• Samsung files patent for auto-generating life diary, Mayans didn’t see it coming
• http://craphound.com/?p=2171 – Cory Doctorow talking about life tracking and Git
• http://lifehacker.com/5232049/flashbake-automates-version-control-for-nerdy-writers

This week on Technocolor Show we interviewed Sam one of the founder of OKcupid.com

Sam Yagan

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer

Sam has spent six years as an entrepreneur, first as Co-founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, Inc., maker of SparkNotes, the world’s leading brand of educational study aids. More recently, he has served as President of MetaMachine, Inc., developer and distributor of the world’s leading P2P file-sharing application, eDonkey.

Sam has also served as Vice-President and General Manager at Delias, Corp., and Vice-President and Publisher at Barnes & Noble, Inc. Sam has a BA in Applied Mathematics & Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

from http://www.okcupid.com/about/okcupid