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A new free tool from Google to make a mobile landing page in minutes…

Perhaps this announcement of Google today could be something for you: “Today, we’re excited to announce a brand new tool to help your business get “mobile”-ized: Google Sites mobile landing pages.  With Google Sites mobile landing pages, you can build yourself a professional mobile landing page in minutes, for free — and without any coding [...]

Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads)

Can be very handy: Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads). Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, [...]

Behind the scenes of the Google Art Project

NEW: Great article by Daniel Terdiman: The art of making Google Art Project (Q&A) For me the 17 special gigapictures are the greatest benefit of this project! It’s better than being on location where often light conditions are very poor (to preserve the paint quality of the art work of course). Vlad Savov from Engadget: [...]

Eric Schmidt presents Google’s vision of the mobile future at Mobile World Congress 2010

Eric Schmidt presents Google’s vision of the mobile future at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.

Wil je ook via GPS op Media Phones gevonden worden?

Door Luc van Poelje geplaatst op 19 Januari op NING Museum Marketing: Als ik midden in de stad mijn mobiel gebruik om te kijken waar musea zich bevinden, ziet dat er zo uit: Meer en meer gebruiken toeristen dergelijke tools. Hoe zorg je dat je er ook bij staat? Is dat duur? Nee!! Het kost [...]

Google Goggles, visual search technology (for museums?)

Posted by Pete on Newcurator: “At last, we have something that could use all that effort we put into digitisation. It works too. Despite the limitations that they admit to, it’s really quite powerful. As a test, I took a rather blurry scan of a postcard of one of my favourite buildings, the Hundertwasserhaus in [...]


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