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Corporations Going Tribal

February 3, 2012
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Interestingly enough, the topic of digitally-enabled tribalism came up at the office yesterday. We were having a meeting on a mostly unrelated subject when we started talking about what it meant to be a Social Enterprise. I brought up the concept of how digital media and platforms were altering the way we form social structures [...]

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Technology and Spacetime: Then & There is Here & Now

January 21, 2012
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A while back, I wrote a post in response to re-reading an interview with Marshall McLuhan. It described the way that the printed word created a portability of culture beyond the immediacy of face-to-face communication. However, print also introduced a coolness to the cultural exchange by removing many of the subtleties, like intonation and gestures, [...]

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Touch Me, Babe – Observations On History Of Touch Computing

December 27, 2011
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All Things Considered over at NPR just ran a piece called The Touchy-Feely Future Of Technology. I suggest you read/listen to it because it’s a great overview of the history, and a glance to the future of touch computing. However, I’d like to spend my time here calling out a few points that got only [...]

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Making A Dent

October 9, 2011
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I was at the inaugural gathering of ConvergeUS, an initiative to use technology to improve the world in some small measure, when I heard the news of Steve Jobs‘ passing. Biz Stone delivered a nice message to the group to use the gathering as an effort to celebrate the desire to make a dent in the [...]

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Innovation: Finding your Voice

September 1, 2011
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I read a post today over at 15inno.com listing 5 Reasons Not to Use Apple As a Role-Model for Innovation. While it’s hard to argue with the points made in the article (You’re not Apple, You don’t even know Apple, People don’t think you’re as cool as Apple, You don’t have Steve Jobs), it comes off [...]

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The Immovable User Meets Irresistible Design

August 26, 2011
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There’s a nice article over at all tech considered about the symbiotic relationship between Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive.  Ive has designed Apple products since the fruit colored iMacs, and Steve Jobs is, well…  Steve Jobs.  The article describes the intimate working relationship between Jobs an Ive since The Steve returned to Apple in 1992.
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Facebook Adds New Status Privacy Features

August 25, 2011

Facebook released some new status privacy features. It allows you to tag other users in your status, add location (I think this is what happened to Places), and determine who gets to see each status message. This is all handled in a series of controls at the bottom of the status pane:

It allows you to [...]

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Neil Gaiman’s Kicking My Ass (On Twitter) [infographic]

July 15, 2011

I decided to check out Visual.ly to see what kind of job it did creating infographics automatically.  I decided to compare myself to @neilhimself, Neil Gaiman…  I probably should have picked on someone my own size.

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Web 3.0 Density with Clima.me

June 21, 2011
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Over at Total Social Media, and as part of their Web 3.0 Lab, they’ve developed a pretty cool mashup of location and social/semantic data called Clima.me. Clima.me is a tool that measures the density of location-tagged data from a number of web apps (Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yelp, and Foursquare) and kicks back a Web 3.0 [...]

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Social Strategy: Time for Some Little Thinking

April 8, 2011
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Imagine you’ve been invited to the most anticipated cocktail party of the season. Well in advance of the event, you anticipate the people you will meet and the exciting conversations you will have. Finally the evening comes and, as you arrive, the hostess greets you at the door and offers to take your coat. Before [...]

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