Interrelativity

Category: Web/Tech

  • Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies

    A rather early announcement on the conference website: In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people. Today, such terms as virtual community, blogging, podcasting, and smart…

  • CineVend: An Innovation for Enabling Impulse Buying

    Greg Kriegler, president of CineVend (mantra: "Take the experience home"), gave an impressive 5-Minute Forum presentation yesterday at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network Venture Breakfast.  He gave such a concise description of his business, I’ll simply quote it here: Cinevend develops, owns, operates and sells innovative vending machines with a focus on media vending. The company’s…

  • 180solutions: Working on a 180 Degree Public Relations Turn

    I was eager to hear what the founders of 180solutions had to say at this morning’s Northwest Entrepreneur Network Venture Breakfast.  I haven’t closely followed the controversy surrounding the company, with respect to their software being associated with botnets, worms and other elements of the "dark side" of the net.  Some have raised issues about…

  • Proactive Displays: Ready to Roll

    The plasma display cart arrived on Friday, so I was able to assemble all the pieces for a fully operational proactive display over the weekend.  I took a photo to commemorate this milestone: Now on to the business of generating business (!).

  • The Re-emergence of Interrelativity

    After months of seclusion, Interrelativity, Inc., is finally ready to re-emerge and open up to new business opportunities.  By way of brief background: Interrelativity designs, develops and deploys proactive display applications, software that runs on computers connected to large displays and sensors (e.g., RFID readers) that detect people nearby and show visual content that is…

  • Blogosphere vs. LinkedInosphere: Free vs. Restricted Association

    Joi Ito announced that Technorati is now tracking over 20 million blogs (!).  David Sifry recently provided more statistics on the state of the blogosphere, including: it is doubling in size every 5 months it is currently growing by 70K new blogs per day (nearly one per second) between 2% and 8% are fake or…

  • The Fun, Utility and Frustration of Social Networking Systems

    The MIT Enterprise Panel on Social Networking in Bellevue this week was engaging, entertaining, and edifying.  Mike Flynn (publisher, Puget Sound Business Journal) moderated the interview-style panel discussion with Liz Lawley (professor, RIT, and "A-list" blogger), Bill Bryant (CEO, mophone) and Konstantin Quericke (Co-founder and VP Marketing, LinkedIn).  I chose the title for this post…

  • Social Networking in Seattle

    There are two events in the next two weeks that may be of interest to local social networkers.  The  MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest is hosting a dinner panel on "Two Degrees of Separation – How Social Network Technology is Connecting Us for Money, Jobs, and Love" next Wednesday evening, October 19, at the…

  • iPods, Soma, and Turning On, Tuning In, Dropping Out

    Alex Pang has written an insightful and provocative article entitled "From iPod to ourpod: Will it become a more social machine" in the Mercury News, in which he talks about the evolution of personal music technologies (including transistor radios, Sony Walkmans, and portable CD players) that have enabled us to carry our music with us. …

  • Blogging as Therapy

    A recently published Blog Trends Survey, sponsored by AOL / Time Warner, provides some evidence that people often seek therapeutic effects from blogging.  The press release reports that Nearly 50% of respondents say they write a blog because it serves as a form of self-therapy. One-third of bloggers write about self-help and self-esteem topics. Fifty-four…