NASA

Hot Technologies: Augmented Reality and 3D Printing - Posted March 6, 2013
(ComputerWorld) Tom Soderstrom, chief technology officer for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently explained how the first uses of augmented reality and 3D printing could be effective in educational settings. Soderstrom presented at the Premiere 100 conference and said students could learn how tools and devices look a... [3D Printing Insider]

NASA Uses 3D Printing to Build the Next Generation of Rockets for Mars - Posted February 26, 2013
(3ders.org) NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is using additive manufacturing to create parts for a next-generation rocket that will launch astronauts to distant destinations. The emerging technology will build parts for America's next flagship rocket, the Space Launch System or SLS, which is designed to take humans... [3D Printing Insider]

NASA Releases Free eBook About Hubble Telescope - Posted December 28, 2012
Science nerds can rejoice because NASA is getting into more digital publishing with its latest books, Hubble Space Telescope: Discoveries and Webb Space Telescope: Science Guide. The books are available in Apple's iBookstore and in PDF format. NASA's eBooks are extremely interactiv... [AppNewser]

Education Is The Key To Preventing Facebook Leaks - Posted December 21, 2012
Many companies don't have a seasoned social media guru at the helm, often relying on interns or marketers to present the brand on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. This sometimes leads to leaks, hacks, and other nigh... [Lost Remote]

Education Is The Key To Preventing Facebook Leaks - Posted December 21, 2012
Many companies don't have seasoned social media gurus at the helm, often relying on interns or marketers to present the brand on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. This sometimes leads to leaks, hacks, and other night... [AllFacebook]

NASA Students Create Educational 'Gangnam Style' Parody - Posted December 18, 2012
NASA wants everyone to know that its staff doesn't consist of a bunch of stuffy nerds with pocket protectors using joysticks to drive little dune buggies around the surface of Mars while arguing about the quality of CGI in Game of Thrones (which is somewhat disappointing, BTW). Not only do these... [PRNewser]

Ask NASA About the End of the World This Afternoon - Posted November 28, 2012
Even if you do happen to be one of those fortunate few who live under a large rock, we have no doubt that you've still heard some of the eschatological nonsense about The Mayans and December 21, 2012, aka "122112": the cosmic forces of good and evil will throw down, the... [PRNewser]

Social Media Newsfeed: Obama Tweet | Facebook Gifts | Google Search - Posted November 7, 2012
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NASA Challenge Seeks Solution to Big Data Problems - Posted October 5, 2012
Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports that NASA has launched a series of ... [semanticweb.com]

Crowdfunding via Kickstarter: A New Kind of PR? - Posted September 20, 2012
Chances are you've heard the name Kickstarter, the fundraising startup that calls itself "the world's largest funding platform for creat... [PRNewser]

Rhizomer Wants Users To Revel In Working With Linked Data - Posted August 13, 2012
How can users - especially those who don't have deep roots within the semantic web community - make Linked Data useful to them? It's not always apparent, says Roberto Garcia, a mind behind the Rhizomik initiative that has produced a tool called Rhizomer. Its appr... [AllTwitter]

Rhizomer Wants Users To Revel In Working With Linked Data - Posted August 13, 2012
How can users - especially those who don't have deep roots within the semantic web community - make Linked Data useful to them? It's not always apparent, says Roberto Garcia, a mind behind the Rhizomik initiative that has produced a tool called Rhizomer. Its appr... [semanticweb.com]

Speaking of Curiosity, Who's Behind the @MarsCuriosity Twitter Account? - Posted August 8, 2012
In case you were wondering, Veronica McGregor, Courtney O'Connor, and Stephanie Smith form the trio of tweeters behind the adorable, yet accurate Twitter account chronicling NASA's mission to Mars. McGregor had also handled the social media efforts for the Phoenix Mars Lander in May 2008. In the feed, an anthropomorphic Curiosity Rover... [AllFacebook]

Speaking of Curiosity, Who's Behind the @MarsCuriosity Twitter Account? - Posted August 8, 2012
In case you were wondering, Veronica McGregor, Courtney O'Connor, and Stephanie Smith form the trio of tweeters behind the adorable, yet accurate Twitter account chronicling NASA's mission to Mars. McGregor had also handled the social media efforts for the Phoenix Mars Lander in May 2008. In the feed, an anthropomorphic Curiosity Rover... [SocialTimes.com]

Oreo Celebrates Mars Landing with Red Cr me Cookie - Posted August 7, 2012
The red planet now has a matching cookie counterpart -- or at least a picture of one. The latest installment of Oreo's "Daily Twist" camp... [PRNewser]

Watch: Relive The Curiosity Rover Mars Landing On YouTube - Posted August 6, 2012
Over 25,000 people watched the NASA live stream last night to see if Curiosity Rover would land successfully following what was being referred to as the "Seven Minutes of Terror," the seven-minute time period it took Curiosity rover to enter Mars' atmosphere and land. In case you missed it (or want to... [SocialTimes.com]

Social Media Newsfeed: Mars Landing | Nokia Rumor | Reuters Hacked - Posted August 6, 2012
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NASA Releases 3-D iOS App - Posted July 13, 2012
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has built a 3-D iOS app using augmented reality that animates its robotic spacecraft. The Spacecraft 3D app uses the Apple device's camera to overlay information on the device's main screen, guiding users to print an ... [AppNewser]

Stardog RDF Database Bites Into Fat Part Of The Market - Posted May 30, 2012
Clark & Parsia's Stardog lightweight RDF database is moving into release candidate 1.0 mode just in time for next week's upcoming Semantic Technology & Business Conference in San Francisco next week. The product's been stable... [semanticweb.com]

New York Stations Go Live for Shuttle Landing - Posted April 27, 2012
As a jet carrying the space shuttle Enterprise touched down today at JFK airport around 11:21 a.m. ET, every major news station in New York was carrying live coverage of its arrival. Beginning at 10:30 a.m., WABC, ... [TVSpy]

NASA Joins Google Plus, Now in Over 44,850 Circles - Posted November 23, 2011
NASA has evolved as a federal agency that is exceedingly active on social media sites. Of late, the space agency took another innovative move and became the first federal agency to join Google Plus. The a... [SocialTimes.com]

The Semantics of NASA's POPS Project - Posted May 31, 2011
The W3C recently interviewed Jeanne Holm, Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech. Holm also leads the Knowledge Management team at ... [semanticweb.com]

NASA Crew To Field YouTube Questions Live From Space - Posted April 28, 2011
YouTube interviews have become a really cool way for every day people to get their questions answered by everyone from President Obama to Elmo and now NASA... [SocialTimes.com]

5 Earth Day Social Media Activities - Posted April 22, 2011
In 1970, Earth day was started by a senator from Wisconsin after witnessing a massive 1969 oil spill off the coast of California. Earth Day has become a global event with more than 500 million people in 175 countries taking time each April 22nd to celebrate our planet and keep it... [SocialTimes.com]

Viral Radar: Space-Earth Flute Duet Pays Tribute To Yuri Gagarin - Posted April 12, 2011
If you haven't already noticed the space-themed Google doodle or YouTube logo, today is the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. Fifty years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed the first space orbit ... [SocialTimes.com]

NASA Launches Space Campaign On Twitter - Posted April 8, 2011
Over on the official blog, there's an announcement about a new campaign from NASA on Twitter, which includes access to astronauts, competitions and more. Using various Twitter... [AllTwitter]

Social Media Savvy Astronaut to Host DC Tweetup - Posted March 1, 2011
He was the first person to check-in from space. He's posted pictures of the earth as seen from the International Space Station on his Twitter account. And with almost 100,000 followers, he's the most popular astronaut on Twitter. NASA's Doug Wheel... [AllTwitter]

Clark & Parsia: New Products to Save Data From Death In An ECM Repository, And To Tackle Smaller Data Sets of Big Strategic Value - Posted February 28, 2011
Is your enterprise content management system the place where your information goes to die? It doesn't have to be that way. At the SemTech conference in June, Kendall Clark of Clark & Parsia will formally launch Spanner and Stardog, the former of which is already in use at NASA and the... [semanticweb.com]

Japan to Launch Tweeting Robot into Space - Posted February 18, 2011
Japan is contemplating sending a humanoid robot into space who will monitor the astronauts' health, space station conditions, and tweet it all back to Earth. As the ... [AllTwitter]

NASA, White House, and PETA Top Digital Index - Posted November 24, 2010
Findings from the first-ever Digital IQ Index for the Public Sector are out and the top in "digital competence" are NASA, the White House, a... [PRNewser]

Guest Post: Social Media Lessons from NASA - Posted November 10, 2010
[caption id="attachment_8704" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="Photo: Mark Brett, Western News"][/caption] A couple of weeks ago, we reported on ... [PRNewser]

NASA Will Be The Mayor Of Outer Space - Posted October 28, 2010
NASA has launched (sorry!) a social media campaign that includes a partnership with Foursquare, tweets from the Space Shuttle Discovery, and a tweetup for the shuttle launch next week at the Johnson Space Center. Last week, Commander Douglas Wheelock became th... [PRNewser]

4M foursquare Users, But Only One Has the NASA Explorer Badge - Posted October 22, 2010
Location-based mobile app foursquare may have just surpassed the ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]