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Journey’s in augmented reality

Sunday, September 19th, 2010Picked this post up from Layar co-founder, M. Lens-FitzGerald. Urban Augmented Realities and Social Augmentations that Matter: Talking with Bruce Sterling, Part 2The post is well worth a read, and I picked this nuggetJesse Schell described the importance of AR ...

Mobile my remote control for life (we’re getting there)

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Interesting article on mobile and mobile wallet from Fast Company. Tomi Ahonen has argued for a very long period of time that mobile has 6 unique benefits,The first personal mass media The first always carried media The first always on ...

Speaking at British Embassy Mexico 31st August

Thursday, August 26th, 2010I am in Mexico next week the 3rd leg of the speaking tour I am doing with Blackberry. So it was a great surprise when I heard from the British Embassy there asking if I would come along and speak ...

Mobile changes the rules by how we can market goods, products and services

Thursday, July 29th, 2010Tomi Ahonen will tell you that in many many countries mobile penetration rates are 100%+, 120%+ and even 150%+, yet when it comes to discussions around, "Social Media", mobile gets scant look in, in reality. Yet even in the UK ...

the diversity of language, media and youtube

Sunday, July 18th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5555" align="aligncenter" width="239" caption="Like nature, we are diverse"][/caption]It was Noam Chomsky in the 60's that developed a view that we (humanity) was programmed with a universal language DNA. But what if the very diversity of languages is the key ...

Requiem for Detroit or time to kick out the jams?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5507" align="aligncenter" width="461" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23368962@N00/503069237"][/caption]We came across the BBC2 Documentary about Detroit recently, and today I sat down and watched it again and made some notes.There is a section in the film where we are told that at one point ...

The framework of the networked society

Monday, July 12th, 2010Michel Bauwens of the P2P Society has put together with the help of Lily Fisher, a beautiful presentation on how various legal/creative/production/business tools and frameworks fit together. Thank you Robin Good for the hat tipEverything open and free on ...

“Crowdfunding will never catch on” investment trainee age 46

Monday, July 12th, 2010I stole the headline from an old economist advert, but just tweaked a little for context!The crowd has the potential to be a larger funding source than anyone of us ever expectedArgues Paul Kedrosky in The Venture Capital Journal July ...

Enable and empower communities don’t build apps

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Most government agencies are missing out on a core ingredient with their contests. Sunlight had a not-so-secret sauce in its contest strategy that ought to be sharedFor us at Sunlight, the not-so-big secret was that it was never about the ...

No Straight Lines interview @dishymix

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Here is a link to the interview that I had with the fabulous Susan Bratton of DishyMix.It was said that Alan Moore sounded like a character from a Guy Ritchie movie at his SXSW keynote. Skyping in from Over, England (a ...

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