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Friday Shorts 13th Jan

Posted by Alistair McBride on
Jan 13 2012
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Duty Calls

"Duty Calls" from Xkcd

 

ReCatcha

How ReCaptcha Works

6 Startups to Watch in 2012: Mashables pick out 6 bright young things of the startup world for our insight and pleasure. Most insightful of all however is to see which directions they think technology and its adoption is moving.

Google Integrates Google+ with Search Results: Google takes another step in personalising your search results with information from your Google+ account, customising your experience of the web one step further.

Harness Water to Power Your Smartphone: Swedish company myFC have devised a two-in-one device that consists of both a fuel cell battery pack and replaceable fuel cell cartridges which will charge smartphones, cameras and other such devices.

Luis Van Ahn’s Large Scale Human Online Collaboration: After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the Web quickly and accurately and all for free.

About Alistair McBride

Al is the non-techie of the SelfAssemblySites' founding duo. More of a big-picture thinker, he's a quick starter, a ponderer and full of the spirit of 'ah why not?'. At times devastatingly insightful while being able to admit when he's wrong or having hardly a clue what's going on, he's never afraid to ask simple, direct questions, trying to get to the heart of the matter. He has a wide and diverse range of interests and passions, core of which are usually art, psychology or innovation. He reviles in the 80/20, greater efficiency and more straightforward and effective ways of learning or doing things and so Sas is a fitting business for him. He truly believes that a website can be an embodiment and catalyst to making any idea reality in the early 21st Century. You can make all sorts of non-profit and for profit projects live and thrive with a good website as your launch pad.

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