With the goal at Project54 being to produce solutions in order to create a safer environment in which the police officer can control all of the lights, radar, and various devices within his/her police car, it is interesting to see the need for similar technology within regular cars to solve the problem of distracted drivers. …
Category Archive: Web
Sep
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Jul
07
Twittruth
For everyone with a Twitter account, there’s a new service called TwitTruth that can tell you details about your use of the social networking site. Unlike tools that analyze publicly available tweets, this application asks for access to your account and then analyzes if you’ve been tweeting links, re-tweeting, or just updating followers on your …
Apr
22
Energy-aware traffic engineering
Hello ecebloggers, Yesterday, Tuesday 04/21/2009, a close friend of mine, Nedeljko Vasic (in the picture below), gave a talk at UNH CS Weekly session on his current research titled Energy-aware traffic engineering. Nedeljko is currently a second year PhD student at EPFL’s Networked Systems Laboratory. In 2006 he was awarded with “St. Sava’s” award by …
Apr
11
Hotmaps
Have you ever wondered about where people most often look at when searching online maps? Microsoft Research has the answer. I recently found out that they released a free tool called “Hotmaps“, which collects statistical information about the frequency of people looking at different areas on the world map, and then displays collected data as …
Dec
15
Computerized questionnaires
During our experiments we use questionnaires to collect some data. So far we have used paper questionnaires. The major advantages of paper questionnaires are: ease of administration (subjects know what to do with them); and ease of creation (using a word processor). On the other hand, there are two major flaws: unintentional incompleteness (subjects miss …
Oct
16
YouTube audio preview
Check out the new audio preview button on YouTube: Pretty neat, and it was inspired by web comic xkcd (via Lifehacker) Andrew Kun
Oct
09
Slideshare
I just ran across Slideshare, a (beta) website that lets you share slides (yes the name is descriptive). I uploaded my first set of (PowerPoint) slides, and now I can embed them in this post – very cool: P54 Presentation at 2007 ITU Fully Networked Car Workshop View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: …
Jul
17
Tinyurl.com – a great tool for simplifying web addresses
Check out www.tinyurl.com. It allows you to create tiny URLs out of long and winding ones. This is neat when you want to send a link in an email to someone without having to worry if their email client will interpret the multiple lines of the link correctly. It’s also neat if you want to …
Jun
22
YouTube long-form
Check out Robert Scoble’s post on longer videos coming to YouTube. He also has a link to a Mark Cuban post in which Mark argues that YouTube’s business model is flawed and that Hulu‘s is better. However, Hulu only has content generated by NBC and Universal (such as full-length movies), and no user-generated content (such …