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Dec
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This is the tablet I want.

Sep
5th
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I saw this last Spring and thought it was great and after seeing it again I just had to post. Passion is a great thing.

Aug
24th
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Not sure it is a very collaborative work environment but, a great view in the fall.
From JustProto blog

Not sure it is a very collaborative work environment but, a great view in the fall.

From JustProto blog

Aug
22nd
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Singularity University - 1st class Graduation

The Singularity University (SU) is sponsored by NASA, Google, and other thought leaders to explore emerging technologies from cross disciplinary perspective.   There focus on tackling the world’s biggest problems with a holistic process guided by disruptive thinking is brilliant.  Their focus is on technologies and ideas that are just emerging but with the increasing pace of technology adoption the future is becoming closer then we previously thought.

This summer was there first full semester with top class graduate students from around the world.  Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis were two of the original drivers of the idea and the list of faculty and advisors is a who’s who of the worlds top thinkers.

While at HP I was privileged to be able to attend a couple of seminars Paul Saffo a leading edge futurist at Saffo.com and know how powerful it is to have structured brainstorming with brilliant people.  I am excited to see what SU will produce over the coming years.

I attended an open seminar at SU about the “Internet of Things”.  After the presentation the speaker encouraged the room to break up into groups and design systems that could emit or consume SPIME (SPace + tIME) signals.  I wanted to join but the effects of my latest month long 16 hr/day sprint was limiting my ability to communicate.   I plan on being rested and prepared if the opportunity comes along again.

singularityhub.com

techcrunch.com/2009/02/02/

Aug
10th
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Latest view by Gartner of the hype cycle on emerging technologies.

Latest view by Gartner of the hype cycle on emerging technologies.

Jul
21st
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messages have compelling attributes. One, they can be date stamped and packaged up to elegantly deal with both real-time and asynchronous communication scenarios.

Mobile Broadband Era: It’s About Messages, Mobility and The Cloud

Mindshare for “Smart Messages” is growing

Jul
9th
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Great visualization from the MozyBlog for the numbers that drive the internet.  What is amazing is that Google processes as much information per day as half of all the entire written works of mankind.  It makes you wonder what is in all this extra data.

Great visualization from the MozyBlog for the numbers that drive the internet.  What is amazing is that Google processes as much information per day as half of all the entire written works of mankind.  It makes you wonder what is in all this extra data.

Jun
22nd
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The iTune App store comes alive at WWDC.  Each ripple is a purchase of an application.

Jun
10th
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I just got from a one month vacation in Europe.  That time allowed me to reset my world view a bit before I dived back into social media overload.  I thought this article had a nice perspective for where we are going with social media.

I just got from a one month vacation in Europe.  That time allowed me to reset my world view a bit before I dived back into social media overload.  I thought this article had a nice perspective for where we are going with social media.

May
22nd
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Visiting the medieval villages of southern France was great fun and a nice break from the cube.

Visiting the medieval villages of southern France was great fun and a nice break from the cube.