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http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/23/kinect-accelerator-company-profiles-freakn-genius-gestsure-te/

“Microsoft’s Kinect Accelerator program kicked off over a month ago, but at the time we were only made aware of the participant start-ups’ names, not their innovations. So, when Microsoft offered us the opportunity to talk with the folks behind four of the program’s participants — Freak’n Genius, GestSure Technologies, Kimetric and Styku — we jumped at the chance. Join us after the break to see what this quartet of fledgling companies has planned to propogate the Kinect effect further than ever.

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“In order to benefit from digital media and the disruption created by the social web, content companies and publishers have to think differently about what they do, John Borthwick of Betaworks told attendees at paidContent 2012 in New York on Wednesday — and one way to do that is to stop thinking about what they produce as “content,” and start thinking about it as “information.” The problem with the word content is that it tends to focus attention on the package or the container for that content, Borthwick said, and the package part of the media business is the aspect that is being disrupted the most.

Thinking of what they produce as information rather than content to be packaged, the Betaworks CEO said, puts the focus on the value of that information to users, and the package or delivery system — whether it’s a magazine or a newspaper or a mobile app — becomes secondary. Only that way can media companies figure out what and how their users want, he said.

The language drives the way you think about things, and since we’re dealing with a new media landscape, we need to redefine some of the words. For me, the moment you start thinking about it as information, you start to think less about the package and more about the users.

That need to understand what users want was the driving force behind two of the first services that Betaworks created, Borthwick said: Bit.ly started as a simple URL-shortener for social networks such as Twitter, but has become a tool that provides data about what links are shared and which ones are clicked on, and Chartbeat shows editors and writers what articles are getting the most engagement, but in real time rather than hours or days after they have been published. Chartbeat, he said, has become “like a Bloomberg terminal for editors.”

We wanted to understand the data and the “data exhaust” around publishing… to understand the tight loop between commenting, discovery and publishing, and the data helps inform that, but in real time Transforming publishing into real-time changes the nature of what you’re doing.

In order to appreciate that shift, content and media companies not only need to change the tools they are using, Borthwick said, but they have to fundamentally alter the way they think about the “content” business and what value they are ultimately adding for users.Keep up with the discussion at paidContent 2012 via livestream (registration required) and #pc2012 on Twitter.

Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.How to navigate the new world of digital advertisingSocial media in Q1: commerce and discovery dominatedControversy, courtrooms and the cloud in Q1”

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“After a few months in beta, Latvian startup Infogram is now open to all — and hopes that its online toolkit for building infographics can really catch the imagination. The company foun… Oh, you know what? Why not put them straight to the test: instead of a normal story, here’s an infogram instead.

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“WPGeek Ltd, the company behind WindowsPhoneGeek.com – the leading Windows Phone development community, today announced the launch of the invitation-only beta of their new Marketplace for Windows Phone app development components.

The WindowsPhoneGeek Marketplace for Windows Phone app development components is the place where developers can buy and sell UI controls, development tools, SDKs, application templates, source code and all kind of components and tools that can be used for Windows Phone application development.

The purpose of the Marketplace is to help developers to build better apps, and more quickly by offering the components they need, but don’t have either the time or resources to build themselves. On the other side, developers that have already built reusable pieces of code for their projects will be able to share them with others and make more money from existing code. Both paid and free components can be published to the marketplace for FREE.

Boryana Miloshevska, Founder and CEO of WPGeek Ltd: “… Our purpose is not just to list thousands of low quality components, but to list those that really can bring value and can help developers to build better apps. So, quality and not just quantity is what we aim to achieve with the WindowsPhoneGeek Marketplace! ”

“We decided to make this an invitation-only beta so that, together with members of the Windows Phone development community, we can create the perfect environment for developers to share their tools and components with others. We expect to start the public beta in September 2012.” – said Yordan Pavlov, Founder and CTO

About WindowsPhoneGeek.com

WindowsPhoneGeek.com is the leading community web site for Windows Phone Development. WindowsPhoneGeek.com provides high quality development articles, tutorials, source code, examples, forums, tips, resources, demo videos, latest development news and more. WindowsPhoneGeek.com is a valued community partner and is listed on the Microsoft Windows Phone developer portal at create.msdn.com/en-us/resources/partners .

About WPGeek Ltd

WPGeek Ltd based in London, UK, is the company behind WindowsPhoneGeek.com. The founding team has many years of experience in building reusable components and is constantly looking for ways to help Windows Phone developers build great apps.

For more information and screenshots see windowsphonegeek.com”

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