Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A new company -- Trapster -- allows motorists to alert drivers to police speed traps by using their cell phones. This isn't a website, it's a mobile network that updates people as they are on the move. A far more effective use of technology than a mashup map because ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
We're still waiting to see what the breakout application is from the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), which probably means there isn't one; however, streaming live video from a mobile to the Web sure seems like a good bet for next year.
I've been inundated with Qik requests on Twitter ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
There's been a smattering of talk at SXSW about mobile devices, but I suspect that next year we'll be hearing much more. The reason: when mobile computing gets geo-location chips -- as most companies believe will happen next year -- suddenly the flow of information gets very interesting.
When phones track ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
My friends run a start-up company called Unwired Nation.
I first found out about it three years ago, here at SXSW. Eric Hellweg (online EIC for Harvard Business Review) and I met them at one of the Interactive parties. They spelled out their idea -- and, of course, I hated it. ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
In keeping with my continued frustration re: multiple social media applications, Dave Winer has a post -- written after users responded to his initial post about mobile SMS social networks -- that examines the distinction between Twitter and Pownce.
He ends with the predictable problem with social media: fragmentation.
In blogging there ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I can't tell you how often I've waged this argument with bosses, and each time, I've walked away angrier than I thought I could be. The premise: how much of our content to we "give away for free."
The answer is none of it. You have a sound advertising and business ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I'm oftentimes surprised at how reporters work these days.
Some of them are walking, talking technologists. They have synched phones that receive email, wire service updates, instant messages, twitters. You name it, they have it.
Then there are others who are old school. No IM. No email. It's straight face-to-face reporting.
I make ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I'm completely down with e-Readers. I use my computer for just about everything. It runs my home entertainment center (what, you pay for cable?). I have two at work (MS and Linux) and I'm about to have a third (Mac) for lessons in Media Informatics.
What I really want, though, is ...
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