Jippo eats her mouse
Originally uploaded by schickr.
When we got home she lay down to munch the whole thing down.
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image (109)
Originally uploaded by schickr.
She ran with the mouse for about 2km.
Jippo eats her mouse
Jippo eats her mouse
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Jippo and I were jogging and either she caught or found a mouse.
Unstrung on: Location Services Lost on Users
Sigh. This is not a blindspot of mine. I don’t think anyone has got this wrong. I think Location-based services are a great idea. The problem is that to make it work, you need to convince the company with the location info (the operator) what’s in it for them. I don’t think any of it was handled or pitched properly such that these services could be rolled out. It’s really no one’s fault. It just is a messed up mumbo-jumbo that has been making us drag our feet.
Do you realize that there is no reason technically for location-based services not to be deployed today?* What I’d like to see is more ground-up kinds of services that go around the current barriers, for example Plazes, Dodgeball-like (Jumpclaimer or Wayfaring), or something like what Nathan Eagle did.
Link: Unstrung – Location Services Lost on Users – Wireless Networking News Analysis.
Location based services (LBS) — which deliver localized information directly to your mobile phone in real time — have generated plenty of buzz in the wireless industry over the last couple of years, but it turns out these new cellular applications are largely lost on enterprise users.
UPDATE 10feb06: I wrote this sentence backwards and forgot to add an important word ‘not’. What I mean is that all the tech is there. There is no reason, technically, we cannot roll out these services today. Sorry for any confusion.
m-trends.org on: 3GSM Gathering Of The Mobilists – Line-Up
Wish I could be there.
Link: m-trends.org: 3GSM Gathering Of The Mobilists – Line-Up.
Check for yourself the list below of mobile passionates attending; maybe some of them you never heard of but I can tell you this cocktail promises some sparkling and dazzling conversation.
MoMo Mike has: Yet Still More Mobile Advertising
Touché, Mike.
Link: This is Mobility � Blog Archive � Yet Still More Mobile Advertising.
But is advertising supported content on mobiles a natural and correct evolution on the whole? In my opinion, yes. It just might have to look significantly different enough from online advertising that we’ll have to stretch our definitions after the fact in order to include it.
Why did Sony kill off its Aibo robot dog?
Sigh. And I always wanted one.
Now I need Rodeny Brooks’ folks to come out with one. I just don’t feel like building it myself. Hey, this is the 21st century – we buy robots, not build them.
Link: Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Why did Sony kill off its Aibo robot dog?.
Because Aibo isn’t a band or a film, and it can’t play or record music or films. Essentially, Sir Howard Stringer, the new boss at the Japanese multinational, is trying to focus the company on areas that will generate cash and, more importantly, profits, and the robotics unit that created Aibo, launched in 1999, was put to sleep in the process.
Joho the Blog on: Interests, not demographics
It’s about communication. You want to build a community? Build it around something to share (a focus) and conversation will emerge from that.
Link: Joho the Blog: Interests, not demographics.
In a Report in the 6 Jan 2006 Science Kossinets and Watts offered an empirical analysis of social network evolution in a large university community.
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The results show that at least in this particular environment, people were more likely to form ties with others when they had a shared "focus" such as a class that brought them together or a mutual acquaintance, but were less likely to interact solely on the basis of shared characteristics such as age or gender.
Gotta get that article.
Friday night
Friday night
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Me and the kids, no less. 🙂
