Social engineering via mobile phones
The mobile phone has become the most intimate (as in ‘of a very personal nature’) piece of electronics that you carry around all the time. People ar...
Category: Innovation
Nokia acquires gate5 to add robust mapping and navigation to its devices
Cool. It was a discussion on location services that made me finally realize that things are different when you are talking about Multimedia Computer and not ent...
More from Cringley – now on IPTV
Edging a bit off-topic, here’s another thought from Cringely (link below). I bring it up because it is a clever repurposing of existing relationships, cle...
Notes from an interview with Jack Scully, comments on Steve Jobs, product creation, and Apple’s 30th anniversary
As part of a series of interviews of Apple notables for the 30th anniversary of Apple, Jack Scully, the CEO who took over from Jobs, made some great comments ab...
A new layer has been added to the social structure of the Web
This is a bit off-topic, but fits in well with some of the things I think about. A while back I got all excited about coComment. To me, it was a way to track th...
Following a thread on freedom, openess, and the evolution of business
I don’t know how I came to find them, but I was listening to two talks from d.Construct 2005, a grass-roots Web 2.0 (splutter, ahem) conference held in No...
My kid gets mobile: Location-based Music
My kids are quite observant (as most kids are) and are keen to please (as most kids are). Sometimes, this translates into long conversations of potential produc...
Exploring the Depths of Thought and the Inquiry into Our Spirit:* Aula Movement 2006
Marko Ahtisaari and Jyri Engeström, with the help of a team of wonderful people I was fortunate to meet, organized a two-day event in Helsinki called Aula Movem...
On Stephanie Rieger
I met Stephanie first at Les Blogs. Very interesting stuff, but we never had a chance to talk. Then she showed up at the MoMo Global Summit (representing the Va...
More on GPS
Since last I mentioned GPS devices (link below), I’ve been playing with them non-stop. The Nav4All service is nice, though I can’t get the voices to...