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Askaround.me helps you connect to the people around your physical location. It's simple: you send a question to people around you, and we will ask our members to answer.

The numbers are astounding if not somewhat fuzzy. Still, they should fuel chatter around the water cooler or during one's happy hour. According to market research firm Research and Markets, the total entertainment economy "over the next few years" is expected to be worth more than $2 trillion dollars.

YouTube has launched a new directory for movie trailers. While YouTube has had movie trailers on its site from distributors in the past, Google’s video-sharing site has launched a new channel where official trailers are organized by “Latest,” “Popular,” “In Theatres,” and “Opening Soon.”

YouTube has launched a new directory for movie trailers. While YouTube has had movie trailers on its site from distributors in the past, Google’s video-sharing site has launched a new channel where official trailers are organized by “Latest,” “Popular,” “

On Google Maps, we try to label important places directly on the map tiles. But sometimes, it seems more helpful to just click on a point and ask "What's here?". Now you can do exactly that with an option we've added under the right-click menu. When you click on "What's here?", we give you the most relevant result representing that location, whether it's a specific address, a natural entity, or a place name. This feature takes into account the zoom level you're looking at, and gives you the most appropriate geographical entity at that point. For example, if you're zoomed in closely on Manhattan, you can get the full address of a point by clicking on "What's here?". Additionally, by combining this with the "At this address" feature that you may have seen in the left-hand panel, you can also see a list of the businesses located at that place.

Widgets were all the rage last year. And the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox, a widget creation and distribution platform, is reporting 500 million impressions worldwide in the past month, according to Quantcast. Widgetbox says that the vast majority of activity exists across hundreds of thousands of publishers who embed the widgets in blogs each month and through partners who integrate Widgetbox’s widget galleries. That being said, Widgetbox is still behind other widget makers in the space, including competitor RockYou, which had 9.5 billion impressions in the past month, according to Quantcast. Clearspring also seems to have more of a reach than Widgetbox, but we don’t have the comparable Quantcast numbers. Clearspring’s widgets had 520 million unique visitors in April of 2009, according to comScore.

Widgets were all the rage last year. And the trend seems to be growing. Widgetbox, a widget creation and distribution platform, is reporting 500 million impressions worldwide in the past month, according to Quantcast. Widgetbox says that the vast majority

“There” is nowadays likely to be increasingly large, powerful, energy-intensive, always-on and essentially out-of-sight data centers. These centers run enormously scaled software applications with millions of users. To appreciate the scope of this phenomenon, and its crushing demands on storage capacity, let me sketch just the iceberg’s tip of one average individual digital presence: my own.

And it's more than enough to stop a lot of people from carrying -- and buying -- a standalone, low-grade camcorder. Flip maker Pure Digital's sale to Cisco (CSCO) was timely.

So instead of iPhone 3G S, I really would have called this thing the iPhone 3G V — for video. Because that feature, quite simply, is awesome. Yes, plenty of other devices have done video in the past, but the combination of the overall package of the iPhone with this video recording capability is a game-changer in my opinion. And as we wrote last night, this could spell big trouble for the Flip. Others are saying the same thing. The way that the 3G S handles video is more than good enough for the average consumer. And I think we’re going to see that play out over the next several months.

So instead of iPhone 3G S, I really would have called this thing the iPhone 3G V — for video. Because that feature, quite simply, is awesome. Yes, plenty of other devices have done video in the past, but the combination of the overall package of the iPho

Here's a question: If you're building a video-capable successor to the wildly successful iPhone 3G and you choose new hardware that supports 720p-resolution video recording, then why do you cripple it to just VGA resolution? iPhone 3G S It's an interesting question because that's exactly what Apple has done. The discovery was made by Rapid Repair, which got hold of a newly-on sale iPhone 3G S at midnight in Paris, and wasted no time tearing it apart to find out what its internals were like. The answer is that they're extremely similar to the iPhone 3G, which may be no surprise when you think that the 3G S is an evolutionary step up from the 3G, and even has identical screen tech and housing for the phone.

Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for the search giant. And they’re using microblogging and social bookmarking sites as tools to figure out what content is relevant up to the second. Real-time search is valuable because it lets you know what’s happening right now on any given topic. Companies use it to handle customer service. News junkies use it to follow political events.

Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for th

As with Movea's Gyration Air Music Remote, the company's latest input peripheral can also work sans a surface. The aptly-named Gyration Air Mouse proudly boasts MotionSense technology that enables it to work both in-air and on desktop, meaning that you really can just wave your mouse around like you just don't care (and have it do something meaningful). The RF-based unit weighs in at under 4-ounces and is designed with professionals in mind, particularly those turned on by the idea of using the in-air motion tracking to wow clients when showing off that amazingly mundane PowerPoint presentation. It should be out this November for a penny under $100, and you can glance over the full release after the break.

As with Movea's Gyration Air Music Remote, the company's latest input peripheral can also work sans a surface. The aptly-named Gyration Air Mouse proudly boasts MotionSense technology that enables it to work both in-air and on desktop, meaning that you re

The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web.

The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web.

These web tools have been essential to communication between Iranians and have brought vivid information about the situation to the rest of the world. So it should not surprise you that people are using these tools to create mashups that help. We found one being shared today that piqued our interest. It is a Google Maps mashup of embassies accepting injured Iranians in Tehran. The map, seeded from information in a liveblog on The Huffington Post, is a running list of embassies that are publicly taking in injured Iranians. The nice thing about it being a Google Maps mashup is that it can be easily utilized by Iranians and shared with others. It’s another example of what you can do with blogs, social tools, and a lot of sharing.

These web tools have been essential to communication between Iranians and have brought vivid information about the situation to the rest of the world. So it should not surprise you that people are using these tools to create mashups that help. We found on

CiviCRM is a powerful web-based relationship management system. It allows you to record and manage information about the various people and organizations that are important to your organisation. CiviCRM is more than just an address book It also allows you to track your interactions with those people and organisations and to get them to engage with, and potentially give money to, your organisation through your website. The information you gather is all stored in one place but you can access it from almost anywhere.

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

At the InfoComm 2009 show in Orlando Wednesday, Texas Instruments debuted new technologies to enable 3D projection using a single DLP projector. Unlike past attempts at bringing 3D to projection systems, T.I.'s new technology uses just one projector coupled with "DLP Link" active shutter glasses--no IR emitters, polarizers, or special screens required. The technology works by dividing a projector's 120 Hz output between the left and right eye (60 Hz each), along with synchronization data coming through during ultra-brief "dark" times between active data transmission. (For computers whose graphics cards are incapable of 120 Hz output, upconversion will be automatic.) 3D projectors will also function normally as 2D projectors without image distortion.

In this report we do not aim to make an argument for why social media elements should be incorporated into the online operations of non-profit and commercial organisations; while there are many benefits to working with social media communities, the decision to do so must be made on a case-by-case basis by considering the specific needs of the organisation and its online presence. It is not the aim of this report to discuss at great length the reasons why such choices have been made, but to offer insights into how the benefits of social media can be maximised. So, for organisations which do choose to incorporate social media elements into their online presence, this report provides material to inform that choice and guide the structural decisions which follow from it. We highlight the importance of understanding both the social and technological aspects of social media, and of addressing them in developing and managing social media Websites.

With Apple's new iPhone 3G S hitting store shelves in Europe overnight, the device was thrown within minutes onto the operating table and gutted, revealing a Samsung-branded system-on-a-chip (SoC) featuring a multi-format codec with untapped HD video playback and capture capabilities.

Let's Tap brings yet another new peripheral to the Nintendo Wii: any cardboard box. Yes, tapping a box is now a control mechanism, and it actually works. The downside? The games are neat at first, then devolve into novelty.

Through a combination of searching and borrowing, here is a list of cool “apps for school” (well at least for Science) – the web apps are usable on the iPod as well.