"#Social World, Internet, Gadgets, Computers, CellPhones, Future, Space"

SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is ever so carefully closing in on the International Space Station for the first-ever hookup of a commercial spaceship with the $100 billion government-run orbital outpost.

The encounter would mark the first arrival of a U.S.-made spacecraft at the station since last year's retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet, and potentially open the way for dozens of orbital cargo shipments. If the plan unfolds as NASA hopes, U.S. astronauts could be shuttled back and forth on the Dragon or similar spacecraft within just a few years.

Co.DesignWatch: An Animated Short On How We Measure The UniverseCo.DesignThis animation by Royal Observatory Greenwich explains the fundamental tools astronomers use to decode data from dots of light--principles like parallax and redshift.

"The first commercial company in history to attempt to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station", Space X successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spaceship that will rendez-vous with the ISS.

Commercial Space Flight anyone?

Video shows launch at 2:02 and solar arrays opening at 13:37.

Congrats Elon Musk and team! 

Read more:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-uninstallers-that-really-work/1374?tag=content;blog-door-river

South Koreans can grocery shop while waiting for the subway at a virtual supermarket opened by tesco homeplus, that lets users scan the QR codes of desired products, which are then delivered to their home within the day.

Charlie Marcus is Professor of Physics at Harvard.  His research focuses on fabrication of submicron electronic structures -- semiconductor quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, and graphene-based microstructures -- and measurement of their electron transport properties at low temperatures. His scientific interests include mesoscopic quantum phenomena, at the interface between micro and macro scales -- where quantum properties coexist with disorder and decoherence. Charlie's current research includes investigations of spin-based qubits for quantum information processing, and schemes for topological quantum computing based on the fractional quantum Hall effect. He is also exploring the use of quantum dots in medical imaging, focusing primarily on novel materials as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging.

via TEDxCaltech

You’ve seen Stephen Spielberg’s film, Minority Report, right? Tom Cruise’s character stands in front of virtual screens, puts on a pair of gloves, and manipulates the data and the memories without touching a thing. Well, the super brains at MIT’s media lab have taken the first step toward that reality, using Apple’s magical device as a display screen and a special glove/attachment combo to interact with it.

The video the group has released shows some pretty fancy stuff, drawing objects in 3D real time, and then manipulating them in collaboration with others. There’s even some slick Minority Report-style interface there, with researches moving red and blue rectangles around in the virtual space they’ve created on the iPad.

There are just so many social sharing buttons these days, and content marketing is more important than ever.

**As a user, it has created a moment of decision of choosing which channel to share a particular news story, or cute video.

**The goal is to have as many network peers see the content, enjoy it, and re-share.

**There’s no shame in admitting gratification in people liking something you share.

**As a Marketer, its important to help users make this decision easily, and also ensure that your content is shared with the appropriate audience on the right channels.

**Your mileage may vary, but this is a very useful one-stop resource for brands looking to get the biggest bang from their social sharing buttons.

**Just remember: when it comes to user options, less is always more.

**Pick the best three or four buttons for your site and leave it at that.

This Infographic by The Search Agents - http://bit.ly/KBCg9O , takes a closer look at the different social sharing buttons, how they work, who their target audience is and the kinds of content that will be most effective when shared via these tools.

Download / Embed: http://bit.ly/KBCs9j ;

Selected by maxOz and Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

"Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your computers."

And it's amazing.

Just pre-ordered.

The fine folks over at NowhereElse.fr have put togeth­er an inter­est­ing con­cept video based on today’s lat­est and great­est iPhone 5 rumors. The con­cept video has the new aspect ratio, and 3.95 inch design imple­ment­ed as well as some ques­tion­able speak­er deci­sions, as well as the inclu­sion of a Thun­der­bolt plug instead of a dock con­nec­tor.

Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly launched an experimental social network called So.cl. which combines facets of social networking, search, and media sharing with a user interface resembling Google+.

Users are encouraged to search for information about a particular topic, then compile the best results - textual content, images and videos - into a single post.

So.cl is initially targeted to students. It may end up being useful to that market, but it's unlikely to get traction as a mainstream social network.

Here's why: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsofts-new-social-network-socl-its-like-google-for-wonks.php