Interrelativity

Category: Web/Tech

  • Awarea: Taking RFID to the Streets

    Around 1997, I shifted my research focus from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing, and started exploring — and working with others to create examples of — what I called active environments: physical spaces that can sense and respond in contextually appropriate ways to their inhabitants.  One of the things I learned from my AI research…

  • Entrepreneurial Proverbs

    Marc Hedlund, serial entrepreneur and, until very recently, entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media, has shared an inspiring — and inspired — collection of Entrepreneurial Proverbs from his eTech presentation on Monday on Coding to Co-Founder: How to Move from Engineering to Entrepreneuring … or, as Marc likes to put it, "Entrepreneuring for Geeks". The post has…

  • The Proper Way to Enjoy an Espresso … and a Cafe

    I stopped by the original Caffe Fiore (in north Ballard) yesterday afternoon for a double shot of espresso, and was treated to a double shot of expert advice about the right way to drink an espresso … and the right way to enjoy a café.  As Jon, the barista, was preparing my drink, he asked…

  • The Practicalities, Perils and Promise of RFID

    Dorkbot Seattle offered a multidimensional opportunity to learn about and experience different facets of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology last night, under the provocative title "RFID – Identity That Gets Under your Skin".  There were three presentations and two types of opportunities for participation by attendees … each requiring a significantly different level of commitment.…

  • Locks and Keys to Object-centered Sociality in the Physical World

    After packing up our proactive display equipment from the Zino Society event, we headed over to BalMar Lounge to observe another kind of technology used to enhance interactions among people attending an event: a Lock and Key Party organized by Space City Mixer. Here are the rules: The Lock and Key Encounter is a very…

  • Filling Buckets, Online and Offline

    How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life, a book by Tom Rath and the late Donald O. Clifton, provides a simple metaphor of buckets and dippers to represent the way we store and forward positive and negative emotions, and highlights the tremendous cumulative impact of all our individual choices to fill…

  • eBay: I Think I Get It

    I always go to the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) Venture Breakfast Meetings; even when the topic doesn’t really excite me, I never fail to make or renew valuable connections with wonderful people during the earlybird networking.  And, I am sometimes pleasantly surprised by a topic and/or speaker(s) being far more interesting than I expected, as…

  • Podcasting Ideas at the ThinkSpot

    Podcasting was the topic for the fourth Idea Day, held last night at a cool meeting space called the ThinkSpot.  Alex Williams and Matt May gave a very informal, informative and interactive presentation on podcasting, the practice of making audio or video files available for subscription via the web, so that one can automatically download…

  • Another Interrelativity Milestone: Helping People Relate at a Holiday Party

    Washburn Communication invited Interrelativity to deploy a proactive display at their holiday party at the Civica Office Commons in Bellevue yesterday.  I live (and work) for these deployments — it was great to have an opportunity to insert this social technology into a fabulous place like Civica and among so many interesting people!  About 25…

  • The Wahwah Model for Breakthrough Ideas

    Kathy Sierra has returned to the blogosphere with yet another inspiring and provocative post, this time about what she and her colleagues call the EQ model for breakthrough ideas, based on a sound equalizer (EQ) metaphor with various sliders used to model features and potential features in a new product or service.  Kathy suggests that…