The physical world. Contrast with cyberspace.
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- Metosphere 0.43 (Mobile)
- Explore and create virtual objects around your physical location like messages, emergency alerts, news, events, reviews, games. View geospatial data from Wikipedia, Eventful, and Upcoming. Start a GeoBlog on your GPS-enabled phone. This is the core Metosphere Android app. The goal is to follow the Firefox/Eclipse model and provide...
- Software downloads 2008-11-11
- Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential election
- Recap: Information warfare and the 2008 presidential electionInformation warfareThese tactics positively raise the noise level but I'm not sure they're making converts on either side of the political isle. I also believe the internet noise is also contributing to the general lack of civility in our social dialog as...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal
- Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- When it comes to most tech, The Long Tail is a myth
- In Chris Andersons massively over-hyped book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (2006) he maintains that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Who are you? Your government wants to know...
- Back in the late 90's Utah proposed putting the driver's license on a smart card. I thought this would be a great place to store state-issued digital keys tied to the identity on the driver's license. The idea was met with considerable resistance by what some have called...
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
- 2005 in review
- This is the review that was never meantto be. At the beginning of the year, a predictionwas made that "Bloggingwill fade away from the corporate world and be considered a consumer tool,no longer a credible source of news. " Here at the end...
- Blog posts 2005-12-26
- Helmet PC aims to score with football fans
- Helmet PC aims to score with football fansTotally misleadingI was picturing a Helmet that you could wear to watch Football. Bah, who cares about a fancy case.Umm...okay sports fans..I've never really been a sports fan...except of course the blood sports like boxing, true martial arts competitions, ultimate fighting, etc...Anyway...just curious...are...
- Discussion threads 2004-10-04
- Microsoft sets time for cyberwatches
- Microsoft sets time for cyberwatchesROFLAOYo...Boss man,..Um ....Like Sorry I'm late.....Um .My watch crashed...ROFLAOLet me guess..."Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology SPOT and its subscription-based MSN Direct service will power the wristwatches, along with other devices to be released in the future."If you don't pay your monthly fee, your watch will stop...
- Discussion threads 2003-12-16
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