Fjord designing sweet things for Barcelona World Mobile Congress
I was over at Fjord‘s Helsinki office, visiting Christian, who was in town. He pointed out that Fjord is going to have a booth at MWC and that they will b...
Category: Innovation
Venter’s team takes the next step toward custom-built organisms
The biology maverick, Craig Venter, has rapidly taken the next step in creating custom organisms (link below to news article). Recently, his team managed to tes...
Paul Saffo on the Rules of Forecasting
Saffo to me was always some sort of weird wizard who thought and saw differently than others. I’ve met folks who channel the future, and it’s always...
Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy
I was trying to figure out why I can’t seem to get into Facebook. Now I think I know why. I don’t like how Facebook is an annoying persistent overly...
David Byrne on the Music Business
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the spasms of change the music industry is suffering these past few years. To me, it’s a proxy for so many other media...
Response to Christian’s post: Fragility of Digital Life
Christian Lindholm has a rough end of year, electronics-wise (link below). Machines acting up, licenses expiring, and data at risk. It brings up an running disc...
Socialstream – a project on Unified Social Networks
One thing that has been bugging me for a while is that, while we discuss the demise of the Website due to the fragmentation of the Web, we don’t seem to b...
A WiFi mesh network for the Haj
There is something absolutely exotic about this set-up. Maybe it’s the medieval setting, maybe it’s the history of the Hajj, or maybe it’s bec...
Among other random news, Six Apart spins off Livejournal
I was in California this week and stopped by, as usual, to say hello at Six Apart. Lots of things have happened since I last saw them, some that I knew already,...
Cool eco-savvy phone from Nokia, the Nokia 3110 Evolve
Folks, I don’t usually gush about gadgets, but this one makes me happy. It’s a phone that was built in a way quite different from other phones, R...