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China, Technology and the Environment: power consumption up nearly 6% in 2009
China's power consumption in 2009 rose 5.96 percent to 3,643 billion kilowatt hours, the National Energy Administration (NEA) announced recently [...]
Design in China: A “Chinese iPad” arrived before Apple’s iPad?
While Apple iPad tablet has just been unveiled in the U.S., a product of similar appearance strangely there for six months now on the Chinese market.The resemblance has prompted local websites, including Shanzhai.com, technology blog dedicated to Chinese copies, with irony on the turn made by domestic manufacturers now able to clone a product before it has been revealed.Its manufacturer is surprised: "Why Apple did the same thing as us?" [...]
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Watch Vint Cerf’s “The past, present & future of the web” interview for ABC7 Extra
Watch ABC7's full interview with Vint Cerf, father of the Internet and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist [...]
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Watch Alexis Ohanian’s “How to make a splash in social media” talk at TED
In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age [...]
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Watch Marc Rettig’s “How to Change Complicated Stuff” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference
In this talk Marc Rettig offers insights into the question "what is it like to actually achieve a meaningful, sustainable, positive difference in life?", drawing lessons from a number of serious, heartfelt attempts to affect change. The work we have all done in recent decades has prepared us to take on much bigger challenges. The foundations of design remain powerfully effective. That said, there are ways in which “designing for change” requires additions to our inventory of methods, and transformations in the way we plan and conduct our work [...]
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Don Norman’s “The three ways that good design makes you happy” talk at TED
In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed [...]
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Internet in China: blogs exceed 100 million
China-based blogs total 107 million, with more than 42 percent of netizens running a blog, a senior information official said here on recently. Cai Mingzhao, deputy director of the Chinese State Council Information Office, made the comment at the 2nd U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum. The number of blogs was about 40 million just a year ago [...]
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