PSFK posts today on Google’s Power Meter initiative.
It’s a fabulous idea, to be sure: Allow anyone with a smart meter to plug into the Google application and retrieve a visualization of their actual power usage, thus enabling users to make informed decisions about their power consumption, and ultimately cut down on both usage and costs [...]
Published on February 12, 2009 2:54 pm.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Brands Tags: brand, branded utility, free, Google, partnership, power consumption, proprietary format, PSFK, Service, smart meter, visualization
Xiaochang Li over at The C3 posts today on something that I had been anticipating but had let slip from my mind – the latest release of the open-source Miro video player.
The genius of Miro 2.0, as the post points out, is the ability to aggregate within the player library video content in a range [...]
Published on February 12, 2009 1:36 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: aggregate, C3, free, miro video player, Service, video sources, video standard
Another in a series of good posts from Becca over at CultureSnack, this time on the news that the Brooklyn Museum has found a means by which to monetize Twitter:
…the Brooklyn Museum has figured out a way to monetize its social networking efforts without going the expected route of selling ad space. For $20, people [...]
Published on January 23, 2009 9:38 am.
Filed under: People and Brands, Things I Have Written Tags: art, cost, follower, museums, passionate followers, patrons, Service, social networking, subscriber, Twitter