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Google Knowledge Graph: Clustering On Crack

May 16, 2012

One of the big problems with most search technology is that it still functions in a Web 1.0 way. For instance, you type in your search term and hit enter; when results come back, you scan for what you want and if it you can’t find it, you enter a new search term and hit [...]

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Ifttt This Is Wrong, Then I Don’t Wanna Be Right

April 27, 2012
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Every once in a while, something comes along that makes me hit my head like the star of an old V8 commercial, then reminds me why I’m so optimistic about technology. Ifttt is one of those things.
Ifttt, while a funny domain name, stands for “If This, Then That,” and that’s the simple beauty of this [...]

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CIO Dashboard: 5 Innovation Opportunities

February 7, 2012

I recently had the opportunity to co-author a post with Chris Curran over at the CIO Dashboard blog. It is an update on a post he did last year considering some innovations to watch in 2011. We spent some time thinking about some emerging tech trends in 2012 and what the opportunities are to the [...]

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I Had A Dream (Apple Television Update 2)

February 7, 2012
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So, back in 2008, I wrote a post about a dream I had where I was interacting with my television through a tablet device that controlled and augmented the content on the screen. Remember that this post pre-dated the launch of the iPad, so it’s interesting to see how things have been developing.
This fall, I read [...]

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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.
The [...]

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