This is the LikeBelt: a concept device that inserts an NFC chip into a belt-buckle. Instead of tapping your mobile device on a ” check-in ” tag, you get the belt buckle close enough to do the same.

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LikeBelt concept encourages a very physical kind of Facebook liking (video)

Posted by randfish Having content that goes viral can seem like the luck of the draw, but there are a number of steps you can take to improve your odds.

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How to Increase the Odds of Your content Going Viral – Whiteboard Friday

AT&T has released some real gems from its videos archives over the past year, but it’s truly outdone itself this week. It’s dug up a rarely-seen short film titled Robot that Jim Henson made for Bell in 1963, which was intended to explain computers and data communications to business owners at “elite seminars.” It does so with phrases like “Correction: the machine does not have a soul. It has no bothersome emotions.

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AT&T unearths Jim Henson’s 1963 Robot short for Bell

BeagleBoard isn’t letting the Raspberry Pi steal all the glory in the battle for low-cost computing supremacy. The $35 ARM11-based Pi may win on price, but at least the BeagleBone can hold its own in terms of power

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BeagleBone board boots up XBMC Eden, shows off its media prowess

Like your phones tough ?

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G-Shock prototype phone hides its craggy looks at CES, only fears your stares

Okay, so now that we’ve all had sufficient time to go on an untagging spree, Facebook is finally getting ready to begin pushing its new layout to all users. Timeline will be rolled out to everyone over the next few weeks, with the social network giving you seven days to preview it before going live, you know, just in case..

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Facebook Timeline feature, unflattering photos being pushed out to all users in next few weeks

Those gosh-darned hackers just refuse to get off Sony’s lawn, serving up yet another exploit for the outfit’s latest baby, the PlayStation Vita . Well, sort of — the Vita’s own code hasn’t been breached, but it sure plays nice with PlayStation 3 custom firmware 3.55 . The PS3 tweak apparently recognizes the Vita as a mobile phone, which somehow allows it to Remote Play a wider assortment of PS3 games than normal

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Living la vita hacker: PS3 firmware exploit expands Vita Remote Play options

Posted by jhammack This post was originally in YouMoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community.

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Video Sitemap Guide for Vimeo and YouTube

Posted by randfish Earlier tonight, I sent out the following tweet: Have any questions about search, social, content, conversion or analytics you want answered?

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Answers to 43 Questions About Search, Social, Content, Conversions and More

It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it’s now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier

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YouTube hits 4 billion views per day, deals with 60 hours of uploaded content every minute