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Uncov, buzz aggregation, and the dumbness of crowds

January 17, 2008

Although I am not a big fan of most Web2.0-preaching blogs and bloggers (think Mike Arrington , Scoble, and the gang), I never miss an udpate from Uncov. With its poignant humor, gung-ho attitude, and abundant cynicism, it always gets to the heart of bad code, poor vision, and over-optimistic venture capitalits. In other words, [...]

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Another piece in the Economist+more

December 5, 2007

so, done with Rio (had such a great time!) — this week in Salzburg, at Salzburg Global Seminar, planning how the world would look like in 2030.

another article in the Economist this week (it’s up on economist.com already, not yet sure it would make in print). this time on a slightly different topic — the [...]

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Steven Pinker talks about indirect speech at Pop!Tech 2007

October 22, 2007

Steven Pinker, who is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, spoke to jam-packed audience on the first day of Pop!Tech. Pinker, known as one of the world’s top researchers on language and the brain, manages to translate his findings in accessible language that is understood by both mainstream media and non-academic audience. [...]

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Dan Gilbert talks about threats and risks at Pop!Tech 2007

October 20, 2007

Dan Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of the best-selling “Stumbling on Happiness”, kicked off the second day of presentations at Pop!Tech with an entertaining talk about why humans carefully heed some risks and almost completely disregard others. Using global warming as an example of a threat that fails to [...]

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Caleb Chung, the inventor of living toys, at Pop!Tech 2007

October 19, 2007

On the first day of PopTech! Conference Caleb Chung, inventor, board member & co-founder at Ugobe, a company that “develops revolutionary robotics that transform inanimate objects into lifelike creatures” delivered a mind-boggling demonstration of one of the products of Ugobe’s new product line of “living toys”. Chung showcased his new invention – Pleo, a little [...]

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Camera as a Social Object: Sascha Pohflepp at Mobile Camp London

October 2, 2007

Sascha Pohflepp is an artist and designer based in Berlin but currently living in London. He is also an active contributor to the popular art blog We Make Money Not Art. He has been researching the world of the networked things and exploring what happens if things we encounter in our daily lives have a [...]

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OpenMoko at Mobile Camp London: the future of mobile OS

The most jam-packed presentation at MobileCamp London was that of Michael Shiloh, who is in charge of relations with the community at large at OpenMoko, the new, simple, free and very promising mobile operating system. OpenMoko’s web-site pitches it as “the World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile Communications Platform”. OpenMoko debuted almost at [...]

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CuteCircuit at Mobile Camp London: Wearable Technologies

October 1, 2007

The last presentations on the second day of MobileCamp London was delivered by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz from CuteCircuit, a leading interaction design and wearable technology company. Francesca is an architect and a graphic designer and Ryan is an artist and an anthropologist; it’s a very fitting combination of expertise for what they [...]

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The Vortix project and the future of RFID-enabled travel at MobileCamp London

September 30, 2007

It’s hard to underestimate the kind of challenges that the 2012 Olympics will post to London’s transportation system. The Tube trains, buses, river boats — which are already overcrowded most of the time — would need to deal with much severe problems. Transport for London (TFL), the agency tasked with addressing this nightmarish logistical challenge, has [...]

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Norman Lewis at MobileCamp London: Digital Children and the Future of Disruptive Innovation

One of the most exciting presentations at MobileCamp in London on Saturday was given by Norman Lewis, the former director of Technology Research at Orange and the current Chief Strategy Officer for Wireless Grids. The title of Lewis’ presentation was “Digital Children and the Future of Disruptive Innovation”. Lewis delivered a powerful and somewhat [...]

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