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Better video conferencing with ViVu

Looks like exactly what I've been looking for.

Amplifyd from www.building43.com

There are a lot of enterprise conferencing products, but ViVu sets itself apart by working inside your browser and supporting multiple users with video, slides and more.

ViVu changes the model by creating a participative video conferencing solution that helps the host create a large event and allow the viewers to collaborate.

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Taylor Mali’s “Totally Like Whatever” set to wonderful Typography

One of my favorite poems, performed by a favorite poet. Great message, great presentation.

(HT: Justin Taylor)

Haiti disaster brings increase in human trafficking (sex slave trade)

Disgusting. "Relief workers" taking advantage of hungry, scared, young girls...

Amplifyd from content.usatoday.com
Brace yourself for a new level of horror in Haiti: Vulnerable children and teens sold into slavery and the sex trade, or simply shot in the streets for no reason.

But there was another guy there, who claimed to be a translator for a relief agency, who was negotiating a price for a girl. I asked him what he was trying to do. He said, "Oh, she's a friend of mine. We're just trying to connect."

Read more at content.usatoday.com
 

Your communication will be judged by your typography.

Not science, but I'll bet it could be.

Amplifyd from sethgodin.typepad.com

Not just the words, we're going to judge you even before we read the words. The typography you use, whether it's a handwritten note or a glossy brochure, sends a message.

Read more at sethgodin.typepad.com
 

Bookmarking project uses delicious.com to track sites blocked by China

Very interesting.

Amplifyd from chinadigitaltimes.net
gfw google 300x275 CDT Launches Social Bookmarking Project to Track Blocked Websites
CDT is launching a user-generated social bookmarking project, via del.icio.us, to categorize and provide links to banned sites (not including porn sites)Read more at chinadigitaltimes.net
 

Nobody wants to video chat.

This seems odd to me. The relationship that face-to-face contact affords is invaluable. (HT: djchuang)

Amplifyd from www.time.com

Skype breaks the century-old social contract of the phone: we pay close attention while we're talking and zone out while you are.

As soon as you begin to talk, I feel trapped and desperately scan the room for tasks I can do to justify the enormous waste of time that is your talking. I wash dishes, I file receipts, I read news sites, I make little fake suicide faces to my wife Cassandra about how much I want to hang up that cause her to yell "Joel, I need you now" in a really unconvincing way that I've asked her not to do, but I still can't stop making the suicide faces. In desperate times, when I am on my cell phone in the middle of nowhere, I will pace. The only other time I pace is when I stub a toe or burn myself. But when I start talking, I assume that you are sitting perfectly still, rapt.

Read more at www.time.com
 
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