Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2011’

• Infrastructure upgrade

  Posted Dec 29 2011 by AxelS in Blog, Product News and Updates, Technology, Xeeme Blog with 4 Comments

  XeeMe went through some interesting infrastructure upgrades. The 2010 pet project to have a social media supported digital business card has grown quite significantly. Not only in number of users but also in activity. Over 25 Million transactions, Millions of visits to hundreds of thousands …

  

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• Brian Stokoe offers insight into social media at CAT | Part 1

  Posted Dec 28 2011 by Rob Stevenson in Social Media Strategy with 0 Comments

  Caterpillar Interview with Brian Stokoe – Part 1 Caterpillar Inc recently purchased a long time Wisconsin-based company, Bucyrus International. Wondering if social media has begun to extend into this B2B space of heavy duty coal mining equipment and since Bucyrus was  a past client of mine, I sent a tweet. That led to an investigation [...]

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  1. Brian Stokoe offers insight into social media at CAT | Part 2
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  3. Caterpillar Inc thoughtfully embraces social media

  

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• Add antlers, mustaches, and more to apps in Hangouts

  Posted Dec 14 2011 by Amy in Syndicated posts, Technology Hub with 0 Comments

  For NMovember we added mustaches in hangouts and now for the holidays we’ve added antlers. Today, we are adding media effects like these to the Google+ Hangouts API developer preview, so that you can add your own special effects to Hangouts apps.
  
  
  This new API will let you detect the participant’s face and overlay your own image on it. Images can be attached to different parts of the face (nose, eyes, upper lip, etc.) and will track that point as the face moves. The image will rotate as the face rotates, and scale to the size of the face.
  
  
  The following code snippet will give you a sense of how simple it is to detect the nose tip of a participant and overlay a custom image. See the API documentation for more details.
  
  
  

  // Load the image file
  var imageResource = gapi.hangout.av.effects.createImageResource(
     'http://your image file');
  
  // Create the overlay
  var overlay = imageResource.createFaceTrackingOverlay({
   trackingFeature: gapi.hangout.av.effects.FaceTrackingFeature.NOSE_TIP,
   scaleWithFace: true,
   rotateWithFace: true
  });
  overlay.setVisible(true);
  

  
  
  We are also adding an API that lets developers add their own sound to the hangouts. Here is a snippet.
  
  
  

  // Load an audio file
  var audioResource = gapi.hangout.av.effects.createAudioResource(
     'http://your audio file');
  // Play the sound
  var sound = audioResource.play();
  

  
  
  Give it a try and add some fun and interesting elements to your hangouts apps. Follow the conversation on Google+. #seasonforshipping.
  
  
  
  Posted by Amit Fulay, Product Manager, Google+ Hangouts

  

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  About Kingdoms and Network Democracy

  Posted Dec 11 2011 by AxelS in Advocacy, Blog, culture, Social Relationship Management, Xeeme Blog with 24 Comments

  Kingdoms ruled the world for the past thousand years. People either lived in one of those kingdoms or were essentially outlaws or gypsies. Those who belonged to any of the kingdoms had to obey their rules or needed to leave to find a new place. …

  

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