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

Mindshare for “Smart Messages” is growing

Jul
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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
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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.

Apr
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I vow to resist all such demands.

I vow to resist all such demands.

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The problem with open standards is which ones to choose.  Some of these are just going to die along with the latest startup and other are just a wasteful distraction of resources.

The problem with open standards is which ones to choose.  Some of these are just going to die along with the latest startup and other are just a wasteful distraction of resources.

Mar
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It almost looks real.  

Mar
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A rapid prototyping platform for physical/digital interactions? A mobile sensor platform for personal and urban informatics that’s going mainstream?

Imagine - AppleStores with shelves of niche, stylish sensor products for sale in a year’s time - pollution sensors, particulates analysis, spectroscopy, soil analysis, cholesterol? All for the price of a Nike+ or so?

— Magical Nihilism has a great summation of what 3.0 of the iPhone platform will bring.
Mar
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Were the target audience for poster ever going to read it?

Were the target audience for poster ever going to read it?