Shazam the popular music-identifying app on mobile phones is giving some music aficionados their ultimate job, listening to new music all day as a ‘music sourcer’. The New York Times spoke to one such person working for Shazam, Charles Slomovitz whose job requires him to hunt down new music and…
What deli signage typography has to do with the connectedness of the universe.A couple of years ago, illustrator Jason Polan set out to draw every single person in New York City. Now, Australian illustrator and creative nomad James Gulliver Hancock is drawing all the buildings in New York. He started…
Facebook announced the anticipated changes to Fan Pages. After a bumpy start — Page tab width was temporarily reduced to 492px, creating quite an outcry! — things seem to have settled down.
But as the dust settles, and Page admins begin to work within the confines of the new layout, one begins to see the downside to these new “improvements”…..
Photos at the top: The most recent photos that you post to the Wall of a Page you admin, or photos you tag your Page in, will appear here. This area will not include any photos posted by people who …read more
Detroit’s Dorais Velodrome bicycle racing track, like much of the city, laid abandoned for decades. Recently, a group of volunteers reclaimed it from the overgrowth and created the perfect place to race old motorcycles.
This rare find has also spurred local entrepreneurs to start up a racing series made for mopeds, scooters, road bicycles and mountain bicycles to takes place on the Dorais Velodrome. There first race will take place on Saturday, October 16th starting at 8:00am.
All profits from Thunderdrome events will be used to maintain and update Dorais Park and the Velodrome.
WordCamp Detroit Conference offers WorPress boot camp for entrepreneurs and enthusiasts.
Saturday and Sunday October 9th and 10th are the dates for the Detroit areas first WordCamp. This exciting new conference, held at the Novi’s The Rock Financial Showplace, will showcase both local experts and talent from around the country. Sessions include all key aspects to creating a website or blog in WordPress. It starts with an introductory application, moves into choosing themes for websites and blogs, finding affordable plugins to extend your site’s functionality, search engine optimization, social media and more. The conference has …read more
A new client to Futuramic Media is Eagles Landing / BDB Properties, whose new website was launched today. Eagles Landing has 3 residential and 3 commercial properties and were looking for a web based solution to manage all their properties. We looked at various Content Management Systems (CMS) and settled on Wordpress based on the client needs and by previous client successes. The new site allows them to manage all aspects of the site and their day to day business. Some of the things current residents can do is make maintenance requests, apply for residency and pay rent online.
Google has released tools that “make it easy for anyone to create programs for Android phones”.
Interesting new tools from Google allows Lego like code to create applications.
Much like Lego, App Inventor lets people drag “blocks” of code around to create applications.
Google said it had been working on the system for a year and were pitched at those with little knowledge of programming.
The tools have been tested over the last 12 months by school children and college students, it said.
The graphical blocks represent the different functions and capabilities of a smartphone.
For instance, one tester of the App Inventor used the GPS locator, timer, and database querying blocks to produce an app that told his friends where he …read more
Intel has been actively gearing up for the past year to provide both silicon and software to Internet-enabled TV ventures.
Intel and Google appear close to announcing a deal with Sony for Internet-enabled TVs at a Google developer conference later this week in San Francisco.
The deal would help Sony to differentiate itself in a challenging and highly competitive marketplace for television sets. Last week, Sony reported pricing pressure on its Bravia LCD televisions, contributing to a half-billion-dollar loss in Sony’s consumer products and devices division.
Intel has been actively gearing up for the past year to provide both silicon and software to Internet-enabled TV ventures, according to Eric Kim, SVP and GM, …read more
U.S. Internet advertising revenues rose 7.5% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, reaching $5.9 billion and marking the highest first-quarter level ever, according to a report published Thursday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Still, online ad revenue in the quarter marked a slight decline from the $6.3 billion posted in the fourth quarter of last year, the highest quarterly total ever. Google Inc. (GOOG 481.47, -0.68, -0.14%) , Yahoo Inc. (YHOO 13.98, -0.01, -0.07%) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT 24.66, -0.16, -0.65%) all issued quarterly reports recently that included some upbeat indications for the health of …read more
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.
Latest statistics, from measurement firm Net Applications, show that IE has 59.9% of the market, with Firefox gaining on it, with 24.5%.
Microsoft’s browser market share continued to fall in April, with Internet Explorer now in use for fewer than three in five Web connections.
IE’s share of the market in April was 59.95, down from 60.65 percent in March, according to Net Applications. Google’s Chrome grabbed the lion’s share of that, …read more
Detroit’s Dorais Velodrome bicycle racing track, like much of the city, laid abandoned for decades. Recently, a group of volunteers reclaimed it from the overgrowth and created the perfect place to race old motorcycles.
A new client to Futuramic Media is