Sometimes the “convergence” of technical idioms becomes comic in a kind of ironic way. Like, you can see a few wonks noodling about Web2.0 and then they’re, like..trying to predict a trend and, Hollywood-style, say, “Wait just a minute! Web2.0 meets Mobile! MobileWeb2.0 — get it? It’s like Web2.0, only it’s Mobile…
Bones In Motion another, another LBS application, this one falls into the health/fitness/nutrition idiom, similar to motionbased (recently purchased by Garmin). There’s scant info on their webpage — probably still in beta? – but the idea is to accumulate your track logs using a GPS-enabled mobile handset (there’s…
Stumbled across another mobile stuff blog: http://mobile.kaywa.com/ where I found a dispatch about (another) LBS application. This one is intriguing in that it tries to find things that you might be interested in based on things that other people have done nearby.
Reading some background material for a point of view I’m writing on mobile social software for a workshop on the topic lead me to Hidenori Tomita’s essay “Keitai and the Intimate Stranger.” I turned to it because I was trying to put some intellectual meat on the topic of the inextricable collusion between devices an…
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Reading a bit today from Goffman’s “Behavior in Public Places”. It reads a bit like a sociologist’s take on propriety and protocol which it is. That means Goffman is investigating social behaviors in order to develop a framework for understanding such behaviors and, thereby, learn more about how and why people condu…
It’s the holiday season, which, since I was about 15, meant it was time to take some time to catch up on the projects I’ve been meaning to do. Terribly alpha-geeky. I’ve been meaning to connect a GPS to Processing (http://www.processing.org) to allow Processing to get some rudimentary context awareness — where it…
Nicolas pointed me to some work that Jamie Lawrence and his colleagues have been doing on the topic of what they refer to as “co-location”. It’s a neologism tied to [w:Stanley Milgram]’s [w:Familiar Stranger], someone who is observed repeatedly over the course of time, but with whom there is no interaction.
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In this whimsical blog post, the author shares their excitement over new tech endeavors, including an ADXL203 evaluation kit and a Motorola i415 mobile device. With plans to create a pedometer that blogs, affectionately named flavonoid, the author envisions a future where capturing life’s moments becomes effortless. As they await their new desk for a more comfortable working environment, there's an underlying theme of merging technology with everyday life, exploring how devices can enhance our experiences in a fast-paced world.