Category: Web/Tech
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Active Words, Hyperactive Reading and Hyperconnectivity: Buzz and Scoble at NRC Palo Alto
Buzz Bruggeman and Robert Scoble visited NRC Palo Alto yesterday and presented at our Thursday Lunch Forum. Buzz demonstrated ActiveWords, a Windows utility for customizable keyboard macros that can launch applications and/or insert text in an application. One of his examples was using a few keystrokes to launch Outlook and create an entire email message…
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Pop!Tech 2007: An Expanded Vocabulary (and Perspective)
OK, in my last entry on Pop!Tech, I wrote that I would only be posting one more “highlights” entry … but I just had to include one more … in part because I am afraid that however much I might condense my 47 pages of notes (in a Word document), no one will ever have…
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Pop!Tech 2007: Continuous Partial Conversations: No Ordinary Moments … Or People
In my last post on Pop!Tech, I expressed the personal human impact the conference had on me – an extended and expansive whole body experience. Before delving into my more detailed notes of the event, I want to spend one more blog post – and more of my laptop battery power – on some [more]…
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Pop!Tech 2007: A Whole Body Experience
Wow. I don’t know where to begin … or where it will end. I’m writing this on a flight back from the most amazing conference I’ve ever experienced (and I’ve experienced lots of conferences). I estimate the average combined IQ and EQ level among the people at Pop!Tech 2007 as perhaps the highest I’ve ever…
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Universal, Empowerment, Partnership (Pop!Tech 2007 pre-conference session)
Michele Bowman, the host for our Pop!Tech pre-conference Wednesday afternoon session on "The Future of Mobility", started off the session by inviting each of the 40 attendees – and the three panelists - to introduce themselves by stating their names followed by up to three words (a "three word introduction" of sorts). It was a…
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Blessed Unrest: Environmental and Social Justice for All … or Bust!
In his latest book (and video), environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author Paul Hawken achieves a remarkable balance between breadth and depth in arguing that in order to restore environmental and social balance on this earth, we must strive for both, or we will achieve neither. Noting that "we are nature", and thus however we treat…
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A New Generation of Proactive Displays
We launched our new proactive display application at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto two weeks ago. The application – provisionally called the Context, Content and Community Collage – situates online content in a shared physical context to foster a greater sense of community, representing a convergence of the core themes of our Context, Content and…
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Standing on Boxes: Signaling Costs and Benefits in Online and Offline Social Networks (Judith Donath at C&T 2007)
The highlight of the recent Communities and Technologies Conference (C&T 2007) – for me – was Judith Donath‘s keynote on "Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals" (based on her course – and forthcoming book – on Signals, Truth and Design). I’d posted a relatively tiny summary of an abbreviated glimpse she’d offered in…