If you could put one thing in the device hardware…
… what would it be. I dream of a button that, when you press it, does something amazing. Not sure, though, what that amazing thing would be. What about yo...
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Ramblings on noise: Our senses
Yeah, the whole noise thing is still bouncing in my head. I was dabbling with some visualization ideas this week and it brought back the whole noise thought. I ...
Some advice I received regarding embedding features into a device
One thing we struggle with, even with the access to the phone programs that we have, is the different time scales for phone, PC software, and Web development. T...
Why doesn’t NASA go crowdsourcing?
I was listening to Ira Flatow interview a guy from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team. The guy said they were getting a tera-byte of info a week, more than th...
Rambling on noise: All the noise, noise, noise!
For all the Grinches out there who prefer the precise silence and ‘control’ of the way we currently use our internet app, here are a few points in f...
Ramblings on noise: Interquantum translation
I’ve spoken about how quiet the internet really is, how it’s not noisy like a cocktail party. This is mostly because the current model of transmitti...
Ramblings on noise: Filtering the fire-hose with ease
I previously mentioned the example of iTunes sending out (narrowcasting? unicasting?) Bettina’s playlist and André having selected it to listen to. That&#...
Ramblings on noise: If the internet were noisy, what would our senses be?
A colleague (let’s call him André) was listening to music i iTunes one day when a playlist popped up from someone else on the network (let’s call he...
Rambling on noise: The signal in the rambling.
This is the thought I had: ‘I’m starting to realize that the internet is one global cocktail party – there are apps everywhere spewing out qua...
This is not your father’s telecom industry – Part 3: emerging markets
This is the second part of a talk I gave last year. It’s still relevant. I’ve written this from my notes. This is a special topic of mine. When I wr...