Always on!
Many of you will remember the early days of the web when The Next Big Thing was “always on” — fast, cheap bandwidth that would liberate us from the curse of dialup and would naturally enable new...
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I came across this slide deck today and thought I’d post it here and make a few comments. David Reed is the Reed of Reed’s Law, a person with genuine visionary status. David Reed – Social Mobility and...
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DWIW
The holy grail of human-computer interface design must be the DWIW function. I communicate with the machine and the machine just Does What I Want. Do what I want! I was thinking about this after having...
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The Ingénue
I was thinking about my own naïveté in all matters computer-related just after I bought my first computer (a MacII, OS 2.0, circa 1987). I distinctly remember my profound disappointment when my shiny...
View ArticleEverybody’s gone surfin’
I thought I’d take a shot at riffing on Google Wave, “a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web”, according to its creators. But before we get into the details, just to get into the...
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@everybody: stop drinking the Kool-aid
Twitter has become a valuable asset to me and a part of my everyday reading and writing. So, I’m a fan. But. By now you’ve probably read the fawning Time magazine article by Steven Johnson, “How...
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A neutral mask
A Neutral Mask in Pongo, by me. The future is wearing a neutral mask. If I were to characterize the world right now, the operative word would be liminal — not quite here anymore and not quite there...
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Pull me up, Scotty
This post concerns pulling. But no shoving, please. Despite evidence to the contrary, I’m thinking about tiramisù. I just got to Barcelona for MWC 2011. It’s not that I am craving dessert, you see...
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Some thoughts on Color with a capital C
First, I wanted to set this up with a couple of assertions, that location is a signal, as John Battelle defined it, and that this signal will be extremely useful when wrapped around social objects, in...
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Oy vey
Living in the bleeding heart of the Eurozone crisis (il Bel Paese, aka Italy) as events spin out of control, fear reigns supreme and the crumbling of the old model accelerates, I can hear my...
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