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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:29:37 -0700

iPhone Brain Visualization App

Git As A Subversion Replacement

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:04:10 -0700

Miami Auto Accidents Lawyers | Miami Florida Personal Injury Lawyers | Motor Vehicle Accidents.

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:21:18 -0700

Florida Personal Injury Law Firm. The Law Offices of Bernstein & Maryanoff have been serving the Miami and entire South Central Florida region for over 24 years.

Gnaural: A Binaural-Beat Audio Generator

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:54:18 -0700

Brain Training en AppleWeblog

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:47:04 -0700

Gnaural: A Binaural-Beat Audio Generator

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:50:57 -0700

Pithyless " hback - A Haskell N-Back Memory Game

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:44:31 -0700

[from martti] Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise - tech - 03 July 2008 - New Scientist Tech

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:51:43 -0700

Pauker - Flash Card Learning

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:48:54 -0700

PLoS Biology - A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:49:26 -0700

PLoS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines.

Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:49:19 -0700

[from beirtipol] 14 Simple Ways to Super Charge Your Brain

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:55:17 -0700

OpenStim: The Open Noninvasive Brain Stimulator : HomePage

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:00:46 -0700

Neurodatabase.org Data Server

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:21:16 -0700

OpenCog Collective

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:17:45 -0700

[from amaah] What's that name?

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:53:17 -0700

On cognition and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. "He'd lost the ability to remember any personal name, even the names of close friends and family members. He was forced to refer to his wife as "wife.""

SBaGen -- Binaural Beat Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:20:22 -0700

The theory behind binaural beats is that if you apply slightly different frequency sine waves to each ear, a beating affect is created in the brain itself, due to the brain's internal wiring. If, in the presence of these tones, you relax and let your mind

FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:43:31 -0700

If you haven’t been keeping up with the noise, FriendFeed is the hot startup of the minute. The service launched to the public February 25 and announced $5 million in funding at the same time.

The concept of FriendFeed is simple enough. You add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services, and Friendfeed aggregates them so friends can follow what you’re doing. The interface is clean, not surprising given the company was founded by ex-Googlers, and using it is easy.

I asked for some feedback on FriendFeed via Twitter and Michael responded saying that Friendfeed was this year’s Twitter, complete with SXSW inflection point. Others, such as Steve Rubel and Louis Gray are talking about the service like it was the most amazing thing they’ve seen in years.

I signed up to FriendFeed yesterday to see what the fuss is about. Having used it for a day I don’t get why FriendFeed is that much better than the range of other services that do exactly the same thing. Plaxo Pulse immediately comes to mind, and there’s Spokeo, Second Brain, Social Thing and Iminta as well. Certainly FriendFeed wins (by a small margin) on usability and scope, but it’s still yet another service in a sea of similar startups.

Then there’s the why behind wanting a feed of content from your friends in the first place. As the chart I pulled from FriendFeed demonstrates, nearly half of all entries from my friends come from Twitter. But if I’m a Twitter user and these are Tweets from friends wouldn’t I be reading them in Twitter anyway? Next comes blogs, and while I may not have every friend’s blog in my feed reader, the ones I mostly want to read I’m already subscribed to. Like Twitter this seems like duplication to me, and FriendFeed doesn’t offer the content from the post either like a full feed would. Google Reader is next on the list: again, duplication as it pulls shared posts from Google Reader…which are shared within Google Reader.

Ah, but you can leave comments on feed entries some will point out and engage in a FriendFeed conversation. If most of the content on a FriendFeed is pulled from Twitter, wouldn’t discussing the points on Twitter be the logical outcome for the majority of people? Blog posts get comments on FriendFeed as well, but how rich an experience is a comment thread based on a headline with a link? As a publisher, wouldn’t you want people to hold these discussions on your blog? There’s already a precedent of sorts as well: coComment tried to take blog commenting to a centralized point without 100% of the conversation remaining on the blog itself, until it realized that it was a failed model.

There is a market for aggregation services, and yet instead of creating a two way interactive service like Google’s still in development SocialStream will be (the real future of aggregation), FriendFeed seems to be nothing more than a fancy RSS service with commenting thrown in for good measure.

I may be wrong on FriendFeed; it took me months to get the appeal of Twitter so I may well end up becoming a FriendFeed convert as well. But what I see so far keeps prompting me to ask “what am I missing?”

Have You Drunk The FriendFeed KoolAid?

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CeBIT Highlight: University of Bremen’s Brain-Computer Interface

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:42:07 -0800

Here is some video of one of the coolest and most useful technologies we found at the show — a brain-computer interface for the paralyzed. Imagine how much Twittering you all could do with this!

For more info head over to the University of Bremen.

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Do external rewards kill intrinsic motivations? | OpenLogic Blogs

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:41:45 -0800

wonderful summary of studies showing that external rewards kill intrinsic motivation

Welcome to the Open-rTMS Project

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:46:05 -0800

Simple ModularEEG

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:47:46 -0800

BrainTraining on iPhone (finally!)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:12:35 -0800

Top Notch Brain Age game for the iPhone

OpenStim: The Open Noninvasive Brain Stimulator : HomePage

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:59:05 -0800

Numenta - numenta.com

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:59:28 -0800

MIT OpenCourseWare | Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:14:32 -0800

Welcome to the OpenEEG project

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:35:00 -0800

PCEEG the programmable chip electroencephelogram

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:35:56 -0800

jMemorize - Learning made easy (and fun) - A Leitner flashcards tool

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:24:24 -0800

Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:28:51 -0800