Technology

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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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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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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Recalling Total Recall

February 13, 2011

It’s been 2 years since I was poring over footage from a trip made to San Francisco to interview Gordon Bell about his book, Total Recall, and to discuss how computers were quickly taking their place as our surrogate memory. I recently went back and looked at the finished product and find the content more [...]

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Melting Rock with RockMelt

December 3, 2010
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I’ve been using RockMelt for a week or so now.  For those of you unfamiliar with RockMelt, it is a new browser that functions as a social desktop.  If you’re wondering what that looks like, consider a browser with social functions built right into the chrome of the application.  The far left border displays the [...]

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Google Instant Search: Backing into semantics

September 30, 2010
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What It Is
Google recently released its Google Instant search product. It is basically a recommendation engine on steroids. The way it works is that, as you type, search terms are recommended; starting with the first letter.  For instance, typing “W” will present you with the weather forecast based on your geographic location.  That’s [...]

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I Had a Dream (Update)

September 16, 2010
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Back in June of 2008, I wrote a post detailing a vision I had for Apple tech working with television for enhanced viewing.  Well, ABC Television just released the My Generation Sync app for iPad which behaves pretty much how I imagined it.  The video does a better job of explaining it than I can:

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Our Objects Are Listening

June 29, 2010
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In the last post, I mentioned that our objects are listening to us.  Much of this is done in the name of providing a better experience – if an object can adjust to the way in which you interact with it, it should be able to anticipate some of your future requirements or actions.  In [...]

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