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People are Judging You Based on Your Shoes & Here’s What They Have to Say
“We were interested in how people are able to form quick first impressions,” said Wellesley professor Dr. Angela Bahns to MSNBC. Bahns worked alongside researchers from the University of Kansas to conduct the study, in which they asked 208 college students ranging in age from 18 to 55 to bring in a photograph of the shoes they wear most often. After filling out additional personality tests, 63 separate University of Kansas students were tasked with looking at the pictures of the shoes and rating the owner on their personality, attachment style, political preference and demographic measures, such as age, gender and family income. There were photos of boots, flip-flops, lace-ups, loafers, sandals and sneakers — the most common type of shoe. What the researchers found is that people were best at judging a stranger’s age, sex and income, which Bahns tells MSNBC are “pretty visible.” Designer labels are the easiest way to indicate a person’s income. I can spot the red sole of a Christian Louboutin from miles away. What Bahns said was surprising, however, is that people could accurately guess attachment anxiety based on footwear. It could be from visible signs, like color or upkeep, which they found could convey either how laid back a person or is, or how concerned they are about appearances. Curious as to what your shoes say about you? Sonia Su and I have put together a list of what we’re unscientifically thinking — and what others might be thinking, as well — when we glance down at your feet. My warning? I’d lay off the Crocs. from BostInno http://bostinno.com/2012/06/14/people-are-judging-you-based-on-your-shoes-her...Google TV team focuses on third party content, second screen apps as I/O approachesThe slow-starting Google TV project has gotten a lot of attention at the last two Google I/O conferences, so what do the folks at Mountain View have up their sleeves this time around? Judging by recent updates to the Google Developers support pages, a major focus will be on helping third party devs create apps full of content, as well as control and information apps for mobiles or tablets. Recently the Anymote Android library for remote apps and related documentation was published, which the developer of the popular Able Remote app confirmed could assist devs in expanding upon Google's existing app, while subsequent additions to the FAQ library address HTML5 and more. On deck for Google I/O sessions are Bring Your App To The Big Screen, Get Your Content On Google TV and Command and Control in Your Living Room: Building Second Screen App for Google TV. Recently, apps like the one for Al Jazeera have been updated to bring more video to Google's platform, so with the rumored SDK (and HDTV) from Apple still missing in action, we'll wait and see if the third time's the charm for Google TV. Google TV team focuses on third party content, second screen apps as I/O approaches originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Google TV Developers (Google +) (1), (2), (3) | Email this | Comments
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USA ‘Suits Up’ to Social TV With ‘Suits Recruits’When USA's hit show Suits returns to the airwaves on June 14, fans will already be part of the storyline, thanks to a new interactive social TV campaign that the network is rolling out. Known as "Suits Recruits," the interactive and social media-laden experience allows fans to join the team at Pearson Hardman and help Harvey and Mike work on an on-going case. This isn't the first time USA has dipped into the social TV/transmedia waters. Last year, the network launched of a first-of-its kind interactive experience for Psych dubbed #HashTagKiller. The success of HashTag Killer has helped pave the way for other social TV experiments, including MTV's new Teen Wolf: The Hunt as… Continue reading... More About: hashtag killer, suits, suits recruits, teen wolf the hunt, USA, usa network Meet the Companies Demo’ing at WebInno34: Cloze, ImpulseSave, & MyReci
WebInno34 will take place on June 25th at 6:30pm, at the Royal Senesta in Cambridge. Register here. The structure of the night includes a series of short pitches from “main dish” startups, as well as networking prior, during which “side dish” companies are stationed around the room and are available to show you their product. It’s a nice way of keeping the agenda short while still letting you see a variety of companies. Here are the WebInno34 Main Dishes: Cloze - Dan Foody – Cloze analyzes your contacts as well as your email history to make online professional connections easier. And during the networking portion of the evening, the “side dishes” below will be around for you to check out: ByteLight - Dan Ryan, Aaron Ganick, Kelby Green & Manny Malandrakis – ByteLight does indoor location technology. Again, go register! And hope to see you there. from BostInno http://bostinno.com/2012/06/11/meet-the-companies-demoing-at-webinno34-cloze-...DiffPDF Finds Differences Between PDF Files [Downloads]
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Introducing The Apollo: a Dress Shirt That’s Wrinkle Free, Odor Free & Made with Materials from NASA
“People can put us on, and not really think about anything else,” said Ministry of Supply co-founder Kit Hickey in a recent interview. “We make our clients feel like they’re secret agents.” And that idea is what led to “The Agent Shirt,” one of the company’s first products. Since April, the company’s been accepted into MassChallenge and getting ready to unveil a new shirt that went live on Kickstarter today. Called “the Apollo,” the shirt is focused on four key areas: heat management, moisture management, odor control and dynamic motion. “When you’re moving around during the day, your body’s constantly reacting to the environment,” says fellow co-founder Gihan Amarasiriwardena. “So, let’s make a fabric that can adapt with your body.” The Apollo features the same technology that NASA uses in its space suits, helping to control your body temperature. Called phase-change materials (PCMs), the shirt can adapt depending on where you are. Absorbing heat on your way into work? The shirt keeps you cooler. Feeling a chill when you’re sitting in your office’s cold A/C? The shirt warms you back up. Even better — when you’re sweating, the fiber in the shirt is wicking moisture away from your body. So you can be as nervous as you want on that first date without having to worry about sweat stains. Or odor. Why? Because The Apollo’s anti-microbial coating takes care of that for you, too. Just please don’t use that as an excuse to skip showering after you work out at the gym. Speaking of the gym, while you might not wear a dress shirt to the gym, you could wear one of Ministry of Supply’s shirts if you needed to. They’ve designed their shirts with “your motion in mind,” meaning it remains tucked in all day, even while you’re standing up, shaking hands and skipping merrily down the street. “It all comes back to creating clothes that are your second skin,” Amarasiriwardena says. The pieces are all in place to make The Apollo shirt a reality, from the fabric to manufacturing, the team just wants to make sure it’s a product their customers really want, which is why they went to Kickstarter. “Kickstarter is a great way to prove that a demand for this actually exists,” Amarasiriwardena admits. “We know we can make it happen, we just want to see people want it.” To Hickey, Kickstarter is the place where people go for new products focused on design and technology. The Apollo embodies aspects of both. The team’s currently trying to raise $30,000 in 32 days. Curious to learn more before hopping on board and donating money? Just check out the video below. But let me remind you: no sweat stains, no odors and no wrinkles. What more do you need? from BostInno http://bostinno.com/2012/06/08/introducing-the-apollo-a-dress-shirt-thats-wri...How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter [INFOGRAPHICS]Social media has been often touted for the role it played in the popular uprisings that have spread across the Arab world since December 2010. Despite the buzz, you may be surprised that only 0.26% of the Egyptian population, 0.1% of the Tunisian population and 0.04% of the Syrian population are active on Twitter. Of all the countries in North Africa and the Middle East, Twitter is most popular in Kuwait, where 8.6% of the population is active users, defined as those who tweet at least once per month. Facebook's more popular throughout the region. In its most popular country, the U.A.E., some 36.18% of the population is on Facebook. Khaled ElAhmad (who goes by the Internet alias Shusmo… Continue reading... More About: Arab Spring, Facebook, infographic, trending, Twitter, World Video: How does politics change in the age of the real-time social web?Politics used to be a very controlled and almost theatrical process, with politicians and other political actors appearing in carefully scripted events — and the reporting and analysis of those events was also restricted to certain specific media channels: a couple of TV networks, one or two major newspapers, and so on. Now that we have blogs and Twitter and other forms of social media, how has that changed the nature of both the political process and the media reporting of that process? At paidContent 2012 in New York recently, I asked Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall and NBC News digital head Vivian Schiller for their perspective on that question and you can hear their answers in the video embedded below. Marshall, the editor and publisher of the ground-breaking political blog network, said that social media has really just accelerated the process of breaking down those traditional barriers — a process that started with the arrival of blogs about a decade ago:
Schiller, who was previously CEO at National Public Radio before joining NBC’s news division, said that for a media entity like NBC, social media has a way of amplifying the stories that come up in other formats. For three weeks in a row, she said, comments that politicians — including Cory Booker, Jamie Dimon and Joe Biden — made on the TV program Meet The Press became a national story thanks to the power of social media. “Meet The Press is about as old media as you can get,” said Schiller. “But those events ricocheted around the world — that’s social media.” Both the panelists also said that one of the positive things about social media and its role in the news and political ecosystem is that some events that are trivial or unworthy of attention can “burn out” more quickly when they are exposed to the glare of Twitter and the blogosphere, whereas they might have taken on a life of their own and dominated the discussion in newspapers or on TV networks before social media. And Schiller said despite the fact that Twitter and other forms of social media can be filled with a lot of worthless noise, overall the impact has been positive for both politics and the media as a whole:
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Intel's TV service aims at Nielsen, big cable, might not get hereReuters is reporting that Intel's mooted virtual television network has hit the buffers because it can't beat its cable rivals spending. The company is eyeing up the $100 million TV business with a set-top-box and over-the-top service that would offer smaller, cheaper bundles of channels rather than the hundreds that come with a basic cable subscription. It would leverage its facial recognition technology in the system both by offering precise ratings data to networks and by showing targeted adverts to whoever it can see is watching. The former will surely annoy Nielsen, a player with plenty of its own influence in the industry. Despite hiring a quartet of industry heavyweights to help negotiations, studios are refusing to offer discounts to a new and untried entrant, meaning we may not see the service arriving by that planned November launch date. Intel's TV service aims at Nielsen, big cable, might not get here originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Reuters | Email this | Comments
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