Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

Reading & thinking about the debate about content vs. connections, I was reminded of Trepia’s proximity-based instant messaging application, where the “buddy list” is really more of a “neighbor list” representing other Trepia users who are logged in nearby. My initial impression of the tool was that proximity is based on a common wireless access…

Continuing my effort in catching up (blogging up?) on some recent readings (of “old” material), I recently read Douglas Rushkoff‘s article in The Feature on “Social Currency” (from September 2003) with great interest. Rushkoff argues that “in an interactive space, content is not king. Contact is … Content only matters … because it gives us…

I saw a reference earlier this week to an article on “Shyness: The New Solution” from the Jan/Feb 2000 issue of Psychology Today that presented some results of a survey on shyness — high order bit: 48% of people are shy, up from 40% a decade earlier — and discussed how technology has impacted shyness…

Tony Connock reports in a Telegraph article, “The Naked Self Revealed”, how mobile phones reveal more than many people realize. For example, his mobile phone word dictionary includes terms that he has added such as “Gucci”, “bendy”, “lovey-dovey”, “straighteners”, “fois” and “diva”, which, if perused sereptitiously, may provide a different image of him than that…

On my flight back from Vienna, I read an item in Scanorama (the high-quality SAS in-flight magazine) about the Nokia Medallions, 4096-color, 96×96 pixel, wearable displays (two models), attached to a steel chain or rubber matte choker that can be worn around the neck or wrist. Images are uploaded via infrared, the device can hold…

FreeFi has announced QwikBar, “a persistent presence at top of the screen which displays ads” and has tabs for the usual suspects (news, sports, weather, etc.). The QwikBar is presumably launched upon connection to a wireless access point provided for customer use. FreeFi plans to share revenue generated from the advertising with the sites that…