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Amateurs get chance to animate 'Live Music'

And some of the people who worked on the five-minute film - the tale of a music shop romance between a rock guitar and a classical violin - had never before worked on a computer-generated production, like Jim Donovan, a self-described "ski bum" from ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sony Pictures,  Facebook Inc.,  Autodesk, Inc.,  Intel,  FedEx

Facebook brings animators together for crowdsourced film

Viewers of the movie "Planet 51" opening in theaters this weekend will first see "Live Music," a computer-generated short that is a collaboration of 51 animators from 17 countries who were brought together on Facebook. And some of people who worked on ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, The Tech Chronicles,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Sony Pictures,  Autodesk, Inc.,  Intel,  FedEx

Twitter now wants to know "What's happening?"

Twitter has just changed the question it asks users for status updates from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" No, the San Francisco microblogging service isn't trying to promote a revival of the hit 1970s TV show of nearly the same ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, The Tech Chronicles,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Biz Stone

Salesforce.com unveils social media platform for business

Salesforce.com is hoping to capitalize on the social media wave with a new application that lets businesses use the same type of real-time updates and profiles used by millions of consumers on Facebook and Twitter. As a Salesforce demo showed, the ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, The Tech Chronicles,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  LinkedIn Corp

New Microsoft Outlook goes social

Microsoft today released a public beta version of the upcoming Office 2010 that incorporates social networking right into the Outlook e-mail program. And LinkedIn Corp. of Mountain View is the first to take advantage of the new Outlook Social Connector. ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, The Tech Chronicles,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  LinkedIn Corp

A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / New Oxford Dictionary picks word of the year, and it is ...

Here's how the Oxford University Press USA blog defines the word: Unfriend - verb - To remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking site such as Facebook. Or as used in a sentence, "I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

On The Record with Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com

Lacy Atkins/The Chronicle Marc Benioff This is a Chronicle On the Record Interview with Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of the pioneering cloud computing company Salesforce.com. In advance of his... This is a Chronicle On the Record Interview ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Marc Benioff,  Salesforce.com Inc,  MC Hammer,  Microsoft Corporation

Oxford dictionary's word of the year: unfriend

The folks at the New Oxford American Dictionary have picked "unfriend" as their annual Word of the Year for 2009, a testament to how much social media is affecting the lexicon. Unfriend - verb - To remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, The Tech Chronicles,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Internet addiction can harm real relationships

But mental health experts say an addiction can form - just as with gambling - when people keep seeking that intermittent, unpredictable reward. "The fact that it is unpredictable is what compels the brain to keep checking over and over and over," said ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Connecticut,  Harvard Medical School,  Pew Research Center,  University of Pennsylvania

Left to their own devices: Tech takes over

Yes. I remember being so addicted to AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) back in middle school and high school that it was the first thing I turned on when I got home and it was the last thing that would keep me awake till the wee hours of the morning. I had ...

From BENNY EVANGELISTA, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  America Online

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