Mood Tracking with twitter

Can you measure happiness? For many people happiness is subjective and not so easy to measure, however, a person's mood level is easy to detect from their choice of words and their emotional content. Alan Mislove and his colleagues at Northeastern University filtered 300 million 140 character tweets posted on…

BMW and Microsoft Surface

Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface is like an iPhone interface on your desktop... touch the surface and interact with the computer with your fingers rather than with a traditional keyboard and mouse. Below is a video showcasing BMW's commercial application of Surface for selecting a new BMW: