Oye Modern = Contemporary Jewelry Design Collection

Jeni Oye launched her own line of modern jewelry collection called Oye Modern. It is the source for contemporary jewelry by emerging and independent designers. It's unique, original and hard to find.

Jewelry is shipped internationally to 40 countries with a 14 day return policy. You can shop in any of the four currency as well: AUD, GBP, EUR, USD.

Check it out!

www.oyemodern.com

Related SML Universe
+ SML Fine Art
+ SML Genius Pool
+ SML Wiki: Jeni Oye

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Amazon.com redesign = List Listmania!

Amazon.com just went through a redesign. In place of the cluttered tabs, which also resulted in the famous Amazon vs. Barnes & Nobles lawsuit, is a super top-nav which contains a see of lists within lists — or what I can best describe as List Listmania!


Source: Amazon.com: A Quick Tour of Our New Remodel

What I like about this new design is how Amazon is able to jam a ton of information and functionality in a tiny area, which is not easy to do.

The second thing that I thought was true innovation is how the search box stretches horizontally depending on the size of the browser window, which is a god-send for the power searchers. Now when is Google going to start implementing that in the browser toolbar?!

Related SML Universe
+ Seemazon
+ SML Recommend Books
+ SML Shopping
+ SML UI

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IconNicholson Social Retailing = Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year 2007

Time Magazine: 2007: The Best Inventions of the Year: Hot or Not? (IconNicholson Social Retailing)

You know the feeling. You try on a shirt at the store and think you look pretty fly, but you need a second opinion. With Social Retailing, developed by IconNicholson and shown at Bloomingdale's in March, you can send a video to your friends' cell phones and instantly get their vote. You can also try on outfits virtually using a mirror that shows how fab they might look—or not.

Available 2008

iconnicholson.com

Related SML Universe
+ SML Del.icio.us: IconNicholson + Social Retailing
+ SML Projects
+ SML Wiki: IconNicholson

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Google to announce gPhone in two weeks / WSJ

gPhone = Google + Mobile + Software + Open platform

WSJ: 2007-10-30: Can a Google Phone Connect with Carriers?

Source: Wall Street Journal

Highlights from Wall Street Journal (transcribed in SML.SML by SML.Bio-Bot)

• Gphone = Cellphone.(software + services)
• Gphone.Release-Date = 2008.Mid-year
• Gphone.Announcement.Expected = Two weeks
• Google.Business-Partners(Hardware) = HTC-Corp + LG-Electronics
• Google.seek(Wireless-Operator.Partnerships);
• Google.Partners.Wireless-Operators ~= Deutsche-Telekom (aka USA.T-Mobile) + Hutchison-Whampoa.3-UK
• Google.Mobile.Applications = Google-Search + Google-Maps + YouTube + Gmail
• Google.OS = Google.Operating-System = open-platform

Finance

• Google (Google / NASDAQ:GOOG)
• Deutsche Telekom (Google / NYSE:DT)
• Hutchison Whampao (Google / HKG:0013)
• Sprint Nextel (Google / NYSE:S)
• Microsoft Mobile (Google / NASDAQ:MSFT)

Related SML Universe

• SML Wiki: gPhone
• SML Wiki: Google
• SML Wiki: Mobile

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Maka-Maka = Google's Facebook

TechCrunh: Google's Response to Facebook: "Maka-Maka" / 2007-10-29

Highlights (SML transcription in semi-SML.SML syntax):

• Maka-Maka encompasses Google’s grand plan to build a social layer across all of its applications.
• Google to "out open" Facebook with new APIs for developers to build apps for Orkut, iGoogle and eventually other applications as well.
• Google new APIs for social network expected announcement = November 8 or 9th
• Number of partners that have created apps on top of the APIs = 50
• Of the 24.6 million monthly visitors to Orkut, only 500,000 of those are in the U.S.
• Google should bring everything (Contacts in Gmail + Feeds in Google Reader + IM buddy list in Gtalk + Events in Google Calendar + Widgets in iGoogle) into a social application without your realization that you just joined another network.

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Yahoo Pipes: Meta Search Alerts: RSS feed from search engines / 2007-10-27 / SML

View source | Run Pipe...

Yahoo Pipes: Meta Search Alerts: RSS feed from (Del.icio.us + Findory + Flickr + Google Blog Search + Google News + Google Search + Icerocket + Live Search + Technorati + Yahoo News + Yahoo Search) / 2007-10-27 / SML, originally uploaded by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML.

Change Log: 2007-10-27
Added Del.icio.us and Flickr as search engines.

About Meta Search Alerts
SML Wiki: Meta Search Alerts

1. Aggregates these search results simultaneously:
+ Del.icio.us
+ Findory
+ Flickr
+ Google Blog Search
+ Google News
+ Google Search
+ Icerocket
+ Live News Search
+ Live Search
+ Technorati
+ Yahoo News
+ Yahoo Search

2. Filters the results and ensures that the links are unique.

3. Sorts the results by date such that the latest addition onto the pool will appear at the top of the list.

In other words, it acts as an RSS feed alerts for all these search engines.

© 2007 See-ming Lee / SML Universe

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Yahoo Pipes: Meta Search Alerts / 2007-10-27 / SML

I have updated my Meta Search Alerts (Yahoo Pipe) on 2007-10-27 to include also news and blogs results:



This Yahoo Pipe does the following:

1. Aggregates these search results simultaneously:
   • Del.icio.us (added on 2007-10-27)
   • Findory
   • Flickr (added on 2007-10-27)
   • Google Blog Search
   • Google News
   • Google Search
   • Icerocket
   • Live Search
   • Technorati
   • Yahoo News
   • Yahoo Search
2. Filters the results and ensures that the links are unique.
3. Sorts the results by date such that the latest addition onto the pool will appear at the top of the list.

In other words, it acts as an RSS feed alerts for all these search engines.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=nHNB8TJm3BGumlGA9YS63A

Related SML Universe
+ SML Pipes
+ SML RSS
+ SML Search
+ SML Wiki: Meta Search Alerts

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Microsoft Beats Google for Facebook Deal / WSJ

WSJ: 2007-10-24T16:48-04:00: Microsoft Inks Deal with Facebook

Wall Street Journal reports moments ago that Microsoft just agreed to invest $240 million for a minority stake at Facebook (Google). The companies have discussed a valuation for Facebook as high as $15 billion.

Google Vice President Tim Armstrong declined to comment on any Google discussions with Facebook.

User distribution for social networking sites by the end of 2007 - Research Data
Source: DataMonitor (Google)

• 35% = Asian
• 28% = Europe + Middle East +e Africa
• 25% = North America
• 12% = Caribbean

Related

• Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook / 2007-10-25 / New York Times
• Microsoft Pays $240 Million for Stake in Facebook / 2007-10-24 / Bloomberg
• Google News Launches Facebook Application / 2007-10-20 / Slashdot

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Facebook SocialAds = Advertising + Social Network Data / AdAge

Advertisers and agencies in New York are invited to an event held on 2007-11-06 with Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook executive team as they unveil a "new way of advertising online."

The exact details are not disclosed, but Advertising Age speculates that it may have something to do with "SocialAds", a term which Facebook traemarked on 2007-09-24, which is described as "advertising and information distribution services, namely, providing advertising space via the global computer network [and] promoting the goods and services of others over the internet."

Read the full article here:
Facebook Set to Introduce Major Ad Play: Social Network Could Unveil 'SocialAds' at NYC Event Next Month by Abbey Klaassen / 2007-10-23 / Advertising Age

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More sex is safer sex / Steven Landsburg

Source: Possible Side Effects / 2007-07-08 / New York Times

Steven E. Landsburg (Google), a professor at the University of Rochester recently published a book called More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, where he applied economics theory in everyday life. The book is largely based on his column called Everyday Economics on Slate Magazine.

I haven't read the book yet, but it looks quite interesting based on the book review on New York Times, where he suggests that the AIDS epidemic is "the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of extreme sexual conservatism."

You can also read the first chapter of the book on New York Times' Web site.

Pattern Recognition = Key to Fight (HIV + Spam)

Source: Business Week: 2007-10-01: print edition. pp.68, 70

David Heckerman (Google), a physician as well as a PhD in computer science at Microsoft Research, was doing research on better spam-blocking when he noted that those same technology can be applied to blocking HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.

From Heckerman’s perspective, HIV is like a cagey spammer. After attacking a cell, it injects its own genetic material and proceeds (much like a spam jockey who has commandeered as an unprotected computer) to manufacture thousands of copies of the virus.

The trouble? Complexity and mutations. HIV-infected cells often wear mutated nameplates that immune systems haven’t learned to read. In this sense, vaccines have been like faulty spam filters, the ones that block e-mails promoting “Viagra” while letter ads for “V1agra” scoot through.

But Heckerman is upbeat. He argues that by revving up the computing power and blending thousands of new variable, researchers are making progress. One key, he says, is to map the patterns of mutation and incorporate them into medicine. These mutations, he says, appear to vary according to a person’s immune system. If researchers can find the patterns, they’ll be closer to making effective vaccines. Yet if they conclude that the mutations are utterly random, then “we’re in big trouble,” says Heckerman.

Read the full article here:

Business Week: 2007-10-01: Info Tech: Using Spam Blockers To Target HIV, Too: A Microsoft researcher and his team make a surprising new assault on the AIDS epidemic.

Related SML

• SML AIDS (org)


• SML Pro Blog: AIDS


• SML Pro Blog: Pattern Recognition = Key to fight (HIV + Spam);

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Del.icio.us 2.0 Preview Sign-up

If you're an avid user of the current del.icio.us site and would like to see the preview release of the new site, you can try and sign up at: http://del.icio.us/help/preview

— Flickr: (nz)dave: Surveying the Damage: Comment: 2007-09-07

Source: Flickr: nzdave: surveying the damage

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Drift = GPS + Helio = Google Maps + Mobile

CNET: News: Access: Helio adds new GPS-enabled phone

Helio (Google Finance: HELIO Inc.), the mobile phone operator created for tech-savvy hipsters, plans Thursday to announce a new phone for its service that uses satellite location technology to help subscribers stay connected.

1. Drift manufacturer = Samsung
2. Drift = Helio's third phone
3. Drift technology = GPS (Wikipedia: Global Positioning System)
4. Helio + GPS = Google Maps + Mobile
5. Helio business backer = Korean carrier SK Telecom + Earthlink

Related News:

• CNET: News: Access: Helio kicks off cell phone service
• PhoneMag: Helio Fin Packs Advanced 3G Services Into Thinnest Clamshell Form Factor

iPod Touch = iPod + Multi-touch + Wi-Fi + Widescreen

Source: Apple Unveils New iPods, Adds Wi-Fi, Touchscreen / WSJ

Apple (AAPL) released iPod Touch today. The new iPod has all the features of the iPhone except the crappy phone reception. Here are some highlights of the new iPod:

• Multi-touch. Like the iPhone, the iPod touch features a multi-touch interface for all the user controls.


• Accelerometer. The added accelerometer detects the rotation of the device and automatically adjust content to fit portrait / landscape orientation.


• 3.5-inch 480x320 163ppi display. The removal of the hardware interface provides new space to stuff a nice high-res widescreen display onto the unit.


• Wi-Fi Web Browser. The new iPod comes with WiFi (802.11 b/g) and comes with Safari so you can browse the web and watch your YouTube video.


• iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Because of the added Wi-Fi, you can now shop for new songs and add to your iPod wherever you have a Wi-Fi connection.


• Power and battery. iPod Touch is rated to play for up to 22 hours of audio or 5 hours of video when fully charged. 80% of battery charge capacity takes 1.5 hours. A full-charge takes about 3 hours.

The new iPod is scheduled to launch on September 28th, 2007. Pricing is very reasonable: 299 for the 8GB model, 399 for the 16GB model.

I hope that the new iPod will work with IM+ for Skype as well—a service that allows users to run Skype on the iPhone without paying for an AT+T's monthly plan. (The New Zealand Herald: Blog: Skype on the iPhone / 2007-08-15 / Telecommunications News)

Related News

• Gizmodo: First iPod Touch Video Hands On


• Portfolio.com: Apple Unveils New iPods


• Wall Street Journal: Apple Unveils New iPods, Adds Wi-Fi, Touchscreen


• Wired Blogs: Apple and Starbucks Ink WiFiDeal Via New iPod

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Google News + Comments = Social Journalism

According to the post titled Perspectives about the news from people in the news from the Google News Official Blog, Google News will be allowing reader comments on their stories starting this week.

Comments are restricted to people who are "directly involved with the news," (Deep Jive Interests: Google News To Change Online News As We Know It. Here's Why) but it will certainly be interesting to see how "by adding this feature, [Google News] can help enhance the news experience for readers, testing the hypothesis that... a personal view can sometimes add a whole new dimension to the story." (Google News Blog)

Collaboration activities on the Google domain is not new (see Google Docs Redesign on my blog), but social media applied to news story is definitely an ingenious idea.

Next step: Google Search + Comments would definitely make for some interesting product!

Artificial Life / J. Craig Venter

J. Craig Venter, the first scientist who figured out the complete human DNA sequence is at his final phase of creating the first free-living artificial organism by collecting deep-sea organisms last year. It is a bacteria with a few hundred genes. His firm, Synthetic Genomics, Inc will be creating synthetic bugs which produce Ethanol and Hydrogen. The potential benefits of biocomputers are huge, and can be used to create medication, fuels, cleans pollution and detect explosives. (Business Week 2007-06-25 / On The Brink Of Artificial Life / Craig Venter says success is near, but critics blast efforts to patent synthetic organisms)

This verifies The Economist's claim: "What physics was to the 20th century, biology will be to the 21st -- and RNA will be a vital part of it." (The Economist 2007-06-24 / The RNA revolution: Biology's Big Bang)

Related articles on the Web

• Forbes: BP's Biotech Bet


• New Scientist: Countdown to a synthetic lifeform


• New York Times: Scientists Transplant Genome of Bacteria


• Washington Post: J. Craig Venter's Next Little Thing: The man who mapped the human genome has a new focus: using microbes to create alternative fuels.


• Washington Post: Scientists Report DNA Transplant / Organisms Adopt Donor Traits