Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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Move-in Day for Strands Labs, Seattle
Today we moved into our new office at 4143 University Way NE – right on "the Ave", the heart of Seattle’s University District, and literally a stone’s throw from the University of Washington. View Larger Map We occupy the top floor of a three-story building, with 3400 square feet to grow into, and two (!)…
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Political Song and Dance – and Humor – with The Capitol Steps
Amy and I enjoyed a hilarious political revue by The Capitol Steps comedy song and dance troupe ("We put the ‘mock’ in Democracy’") at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle last night with our friends Dave and Lisa. Among the entertaining songs – and insightful (and inciteful) prologues – included in last night’s show were: Ebony…
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Rebranding Strands (formerly MyStrands (formerly MusicStrands))
Strands is the new brand – and name – for the company I work for, which was formerly known as MyStrands (which was formerly known as MusicStrands), and has offerings that include partyStrands and openStrands. The change signals both a simplification – unifying the theme that runs through all of our offerings and activities –…
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Recommender Systems in Retail Stores: Bridging the Gaps between eCommerce and Physical Shopping
Advertising Age posted an article yesterday on Olay Translates Killer Online App to Retail Aisles, describing some recent trial deployments of special kiosks in physical stores that give shoppers access to online recommender systems. These systems have access to online representations of offline inventories – or, at least, product lines typically carried – in the…
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The Dalai Lama and the Reflectance and Resonance of Greatness, Understanding and Humility
His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is in Seattle this week. I don’t know if I’ll get a chance to see him, personally – I’ve just returned from Florence, Italy (CHI 2008), with a really bad cold – but I just read a report by Ward Serrill in The Seattle Times on connecting Eye-to-Eye with the…
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Yogi Patel joins MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer
I’m delighted to announce that Yogi Patel has joined MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer! Yogi’s arrival doubles the size – and probably quadruples the productive capacity – of our new innovation team. He brings 5 years of development and program management experience, most recently in the area of wearable computing, contributing to the U.S. Army’s…
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A More Perfect Union: Obama and Transracialism
Barack Obama’s speech last week was the most inspiring speech I’ve seen by a U.S. president – or a major U.S. presidential candidate – in my adult life. I’ve seen video footage of inspiring speeches by Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, and a number of other inspiring speeches by earlier presidents…
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UbiComp 2008: Call for Papers, Notes and Workshops (deadline: April 4)
The Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008) will be held 21-24 September 2008 in Seoul, South Korea: UbiComp 2008 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of study that includes…
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Innovating at MyStrands, Seattle
It’s been a little over a month since I left Nokia and started principally instigating at MyStrands, Seattle. Most of my time thus far has been devoted to talking with people and looking at places, as my top two initial instigative goals are to attract a dream team and setup shop in a dream space.…