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We’re here at Google’s massive New York City HQ (they own an entire block) for what Google was calling a “partner event” but everyone knew was really an “NFC event”. Sure enough, Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s VP of Commerce, has taken the stage to announce Google Wallet and Google Offers.
Right off the bat, Tilenius wanted to make it clear that this would be an open platform. She invited “payment networks, carriers, and banks to join us in creating tomorrow’s shopping experience”. And some of those partners are already on board. Citi, Mastercard, FirstData, and Sprint are the initial partners.
For Google Wallet, Tilenius says that the field trials will begin today and it will be official out this summer. As expected, it will be using NFC technology. By 2014, Tilenius notes that 50 percent of smartphones will have NFC built into them — that’s 150 million devices.
With Wallet, you’ll be able to add your existing credit cards (though only Citi-backed Mastercards are a partner right now of the major card companies). And it’s a wallet you can lock, Tilenius notes. There are multiple levels of security. There’s the phone lock, a required Google pin, credit card information encryption, and your credit card number is never fully displayed.
Right off the bat, Google Wallet will work with Mastercard Paypass. This means right now 300,000 merchants around the world and 120,000 in the U.S. are technically ready (though it’s not rolling out everywhere yet). It will initially work with “Gcard” a Google pre-paid card set up by Mastercard.
The initial trials will be in San Francisco and New York. Tilenius says this will expand nationally in the coming months.
The other component of the announcement is Google Offers. These work seamlessly with Google Wallet. You find an offer you want, save it to Wallet with a click and you’re ready. You can redeem them by tapping the phone at the point of sale. Or you can show the offer to a cashier.
Initially, Macy’s, Subway, Walgreens, Toys R Us, and more are partners. The first trial programs will be in San Francisco, New York, and Portland this summer.
Tilenius notes that the first offers will be “offer of the day” but notes that “this is just the tip of the iceberg.” Eventually, there will be check-in offers, offer ads (ads on Google that are really offers that you can easily transfer to Wallet), and others.
Coming this fall, Google notes that the ability to receive digital receipts will be a part of Wallet as well. This means no more paper receipts (awesome). And digital loyalty cards are another thing they’re working on. There were also hints of the gaming dynamics down the road to make mobile payments more engaging and fun.
Some other Googlers took the stage to show off a demo of how the system will work, and it looks good. But again, Google is really pushing the “open” aspect of this. They want and need more partners for this to really take off.
Google says that they don’t plan to charge for access to Wallet. It will be free to partners. They also say they want to make sure Wallet/Offers ensure a level playing field. Everyone from flower shop owners to massive chains should be able to use this in the same way.
There will be APIs eventually. And Google plans to work with partners to promote open standards. They say they’ll keep it “as open as possible” as long as that doesn’t sacrifice on security and user choice.
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt, Tilenius said on stage that Google was making a huge bet on NFC as a company. Indeed.
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DIY of the Day: A makeshift levee keeps the rising waters of the Yazoo River from washing away a home near Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Despite the perilous swelling, authorities said Mississippi River waters were not expected to top the Yazoo Backwater Levee after it was reported today that the river had crested at 14 feet above flood stage. However, the water line could remain above flood stage until mid-June.
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Leftover breakfast tacos (wrapped in pancakes instead of tortillas) from The Diner fill my stomach.
There is a half finished fake beer next to me, and club soda with lime to follow that.
I have The American playing in the background. It's a little slow, but good.
The dogs are full, happy and sleeping at my feet.
It's a good night to be holed up in a comfy apartment!
To everyone else braving the rainy part of the storm, good luck! ;)
Monday, May 23, 2011 21:01 ETWhat color is the letter "E"?
I was born with synesthesia, a condition that is fascinating to talk about -- but challenging to explain
Flickr/MontgolfierThis article originally appeared on Imprint.
It's prime time to discuss an old favorite of mine (and of many color fans): synesthesia, that curious trick of certain brains, mine included, that makes one "see" colors in letters and numbers in dry black-and-white, or see them in sounds, tastes or textures. Welcome to one of the more beautiful and strange wrinkles in the color-brain.
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9... on Flickr. Logo by Chermayeff & Geismar.
"The number 1, for example, is a brilliant and bright white, like someone shining a flashlight into my eyes. Five is a clap of thunder or the sound of waves crashing against rocks. Thirty-seven is lumpy like porridge, while 89 reminds me of falling snow ... In an interview with talk show host David Letterman in New York, I told David he looked like the number 117 -- tall and lanky. Later outside, in ... Times Square, I gazed up at the towering skyscrapers and felt surrounded by 9s -- the number I most associate with feelings of immensity."
That's Daniel Tammet speaking, one of 50 living savants worldwide and an unusually articulate synesthete -- a feat made more amazing by the fact that he's also high-functioning autistic. Daniel's book "Born on a Blue Day" chronicles the fascinating insides of his brain, how he finds not just color in numbers but the solace and particularities of old friends. Numbers reveal themselves to him in turn, complete with highly specific colors and shapes, and a specific location in his mental landscape.
His super-charged synesthesia enables extraordinary feats of memory, like the time he recited pi to 22,514 decimal places or learned Icelandic, his ninth foreign language, to fluency within a week. (Wire your jaw shut before watching this Channel Four documentary about Tammet, "The Boy With the Incredible Brain".)
Something about synesthesia is devouringly fascinating, to the people who have it as much as the people who don't. I'm no savant, but I've seen colors attached to my numbers and letters forever. The knowledge of what this feels like is innate; it challenges language to explain it.
As kids, my brother and I argued matter-of-factly about the assignation of colors to graphemes -- his alphabet tends toward yellows, mine to various reds. We told my mother recently about this, who dismissed the whole thing as nonsense, until she didn't like -- or, more accurately, felt, primally wronged -- by the color-matches we were articulating. Of course, it turns out she has synesthesia too. When it became clear to her what the term meant (and how non-crazy she is to have it), we all chattered on happily about which colors go with which letters. My dad sat ping-ponging between the three of us, mystified.
Synesthesia has garnered enough headlines that most people know broadly what it is. (If you have it, you're likely already aware of that fact -- but this battery of psychological tests will help you pin the answer down.) So where does synesthesia come from?
It's a dreamy, harmless quirk arising from "cross-talk" between tangled areas of the brain. Usually baby-brains prune themselves over time, separating brain regions with differing functions. Pruning may be incomplete in synesthetes in the fusiform gyrus, where the regions responsible for graphemes (letters and numbers) lie snugly next to each other. Studies show synesthetes pack more connective "white matter" tissue between these brain areas than non-synesthetes do.
This 2007 TED talk by neuroscientist VS Ramachandran summarizes these origins nicely, while hinting at synesthesia's possible usefulness -- the whole talk is interesting, but skip to 17:00 for the synesthesia stuff.
So what's the usefulness of synesthesia -- is there evolutionarily any point? And what other avenues of brain investigation do scientists use synesthesia to explore? I'll save those answers in tantalizing style for my second post in this series. For now, suffice it to say: Synesthesia is famously, but not narrowly, helpful in boosting a brain's creativity. Ramanchandran ventures only that synesthetic brains are hard-wired to make unexpected leaps. But naturally that feels like a bloodless definition. To prime your color-mad pumps for next time, I'll leave you with this plummy evocation of creativity and synesthesia than this quote from synesthete Vladimir Nabokov's 1967 memoir, "Speak, Memory." Swoon!
"The long 'a' of the English alphabet ... has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French 'a' evokes polished ebony. This black group also includes hard 'g' (vulcanized rubber) and 'r' (a sooty rag bag being ripped). Oatmeal 'n', noodle-limp 'l', and the ivory-backed hand mirror of 'o' take care of the whites. I am puzzled by my French 'on' which I see as the brimming tension-surface of alcohol in a small glass."
P.S. Let's leave the record straight here. I picked that number 9 image leading this post because it's the proper color, a bold cherry red -- although my 9 tends toward brick. Nabokov is right on about on's limpid pallor, but he's mad if he thinks 'r' is sooty-brown, when it's so glossy licorice black. The color-squabble continues next time!
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