Category: Web/Tech
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Channel Surfing: One of the Great Problems?
In another Technology Review article, this one on Gadgets in the Super-Chip Age, David Freeman starts out with the following sentence: In a lab at Philips Electronics in the Netherlands, researchers are stalking the solution to one of the great problems of modern life: having to hunt through hundreds of television channels for something you’d…
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Bot Com Boom?
Rodney Brooks, MIT professor, iRobot cofounder and Technology Review commentator, was waxing poetic about the promise of robotics in a recent TR column, comparing the state of robotics today with the state of computers in 1978, claiming that in another 15 years, robotics will be as ubiquitous as email and the web. I’m reminded of…
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Fresh but Perishable Content
The idea of hypertransient blogs reminded me of a Seattle Weekly article about Michael Kinsley and Slate.com, wherein Nina Shapiro quotes Jacob Weisberg as describing Slate’s format as a daily magazine in a section entitled “Warp-Speed Journalism.” Along these lines, Weisberg claims that “the things you write in a very limited amount of time are…
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Artful Displays
The Seattle Weekly has an article this week about how displaying art on computer monitors — large and small (well, medium-size) — is making a comeback … or perhaps a grand debut. I’m particularly interested in the GalleryPlayer service provided by RGB Labs: RGB Labs‘ business is to provide a subscription service of changing "galleries"…
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Hypertransient Blogs
A perspective from Red Herring on WaveMarket that helps me better understand the potential value of blogging by phone: Using a cell phone with a camera, the tools lets consumers annotate their environment with information that others can access and use to find parties, events and share information in the context of the what [are…
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Cafe Solstice
I’m making an effort to spend more time in different places, especially “third places”, beyond home and work (the “first” two places, according to Oldenberg), to situate myself in physical contexts where technology might play a constructive role in creating new opportunities for awareness and interaction among co-inhabitants. 47.65707120-122.31323815 Last week, I visited Cafe Solstice,…
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Been There, Blogged That
One of my goals in starting this blog is to blog in and about the places I visit or want to visit. I already started taking notes about some places I visited last week (before I worked up the aforementioned gumption to go “live” with this blog), and will be posting them here, retrospectively. It…
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UbiComp 2004
An updated Call for Participation was sent out in an email message today for the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004) to be held in Nottingham, UK, September 2004. UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond…
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WaveMarket.com: Location-based Blogging via Mobile Phones
Russell Beattie announced his involvement in WaveMarket.com, which issued a press release on Monday: WaveMarket, a pioneer in location-based blogging, today introduced the first comprehensive location-based blogging system that enables users to broadcast and share location-time information from their cell phones with friends, affinity groups or the world. The new technology has implications for consumers,…