PICNIC07: Highlights & Live Reports

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Jul
8th

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Clashing titans: Microsoft vs. Adobe “Microsoft and Adobe [are] in a duel to become the dominant Internet software platform,” writes Ben Bajarin in PajamasMedia. Here is the essence of the clash that is heating up between Microsoft…

Jul
6th

Sun

SoftWhere 2008: Software Studies Strategy Round-Table

The recent past and future of mobile phones:

Teemu Arina posts this great video about the past two decades, and upcoming couple of years, of mobile phone design.

Then Arina offers this brisk, bold vision of what he thinks is coming down…

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #222

Android apocalypse

For millenniums mankind has been the most powerful species on Earth. And yet, perhaps without knowing, man slowly but surely has been creating his evolutionary successor. Once…

New video: Howard Rheingold to Korean people about smart mobs OhMyNews English edition has posted the text and video of my address to the Korean people, in response to the recent smart mob political demonstrations that have been taking place in Seoul…

Jul
5th

Sat

Using your face for remote control A UC San Diego computer scientist has turned his face into a remote control. One of his goals is to ‘use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers.’ In fact,…

Jul
4th

Fri

Iran considers apostasy blogging as serious crime Marshall Kirkpatrick reports on the ReadWriteWeb that the Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution,…

Raquel Diniz graduation Expo

The Portrait of Barbie by Raquel Diniz

I met Raquel Diniz through a hypernarrative project I did two years ago called slowshutter. The idea was to present a great picture every day and to…

Jul
3rd

Thu

Future mobiles may be wands poses Teemu Arina

In a video that flashes the history of mobiles before our eyes, Teemu Arina captures the rapid change in the devices and then poses:

The future of mobile phones is perhaps… not a mobile…

Jul
2nd

Wed

A Mob of Smart Managers

The insightory is an open place designed to “share management insights.” It offers Shared Insights in categories of Featured, Recent, and Popular. As its About section explains, it is a…