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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...

Tags: Mobile, Games, Wiki, GPS, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics

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...

Tags: Corporate governance, INTERNET, presidential election

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'...

Tags: Innovation, Conference, Office 2.0, Mashup, Unconference Session, Ross, Susan Scrupski, Zoli Erdos, Vinnie Mirchandani, Vinnie, David Tebbutt, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

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...

Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters

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...

Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks

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...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, trends, General

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...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

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...

Tags: blogging, blog, IBM Lotus Notes

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...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Helmet PC, helmet

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...

Tags: Digital media, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-12-16