Sensation’s Fix “Fragments of Light” — Grand Lisboa (by NATUREVIDEOUNITED)
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“An apparent victim of the company’s privacy redesign: Facebook Places, the Foursquare-like mobile feature the social network added a year ago to much fanfare. Some went so far as to speculate that the launch of Places would put Foursquare out of business. Foursquare’s future is far from certain, but clearly, if it doesn’t succeed, it won’t be because of Facebook. But it isn’t getting out of location entirely. It’s phasing out Places, which was a mobile-only feature, and is adding location to all posts. As Facebook explained: Going Forward: Now you can add location to anything. Lots of people use Facebook to talk about where they are, have been or want to go. Now you can add location from anywhere, regardless of what device you are using, or whether it is a status update, photo or Wall post. Of course, you can always choose not to add location at all.”
— Facebook checks out of check-ins, but not location | Econsultancy
“Tell us more about your current project, Cow Bird. Is it headed in that direction? Cow Bird is basically a storytelling platform that people can use to tell stories online using photos, sound maps, timelines, videos, and casts of characters. It’s geared towards long-form narrative, so it’s kind of the opposite of Twitter and Facebook and all of that fragmented stuff in that it encourages introspection. But the second part of it is the interesting part, which is that when many different people tell stories, the system automatically finds connections between them and weaves them together into a kind of meta-story. In the long-term, it will hopefully become like a reference library for real-life experiences the same way we have public libraries for science, math, and historical fact. I’ve been building and designing it for almost two years, and I’m almost done now.”
“Determined to find a more open, transparent way to chart shared human experiences, he retreated into solitude, altered his approach, and developed a new digital storytelling platform called Cow Bird. The platform, which he plans to release “soon,” encourages people to tell long-form stories online using photos, sound maps, timelines, videos, and casts of characters. It then spins a larger “meta” tale from their commonalities. With Cow Bird, Harris aims to revive letter writing in the digital era—providing the Internet generation with a deeper, more reciprocal means of communication than shouting into a disconnected social media void.”
“Almost 90 per cent of Syria’s crude oil exports go to European countries. Almost $3bn of its annual trade is conducted with Turkey. Saudi Arabia is a regional power with vested interests in the country, and Russia and Syria enjoy historical relations, as well as arms deals. It is these countries that now must be on the front lines of reform, with the US largely working behind the scenes.”
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