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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

MIT students are developing some really interesting mobile apps, on various platforms. I especially like Mobile Trader (no link?) - there's much potential for enabling microeconomies using its "craigslist/1.5 mile diet" mashup for Symbian. However, CashTrack seems designed for cheap people, though. C'mon? Do we really need to track who ...

Posted in mobile, open source, technology | No Comments »

Room Enough For Everyone :: Canada On the Web

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The Tyee is carrying Michael Geist's succinct report about the upcoming hearings at the CRTC over the future of Internet regulation in Canada. Most of these proposals don't make any sense - imposing Canadian content requirements on commercial Canadian websites is dubious at best - how would web content hosts ...

Posted in creative industries, culture & society, culture industries, file sharing, freethenet.ca, internet, mobile, net neutrality, P2P, policy, political economy, technology, wi-fi | No Comments »

Mobile Education Dreams

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Via Golden Swamp, via Mobscure comes this: Touching, in a Hollywood sorta way. Don't get me wrong; I'm not cynical about this stuff at all. I embrace social enterprise and believe in it. There are, however, more innovative and useful modalities by which education can be delivered via mobiles than via ...

Posted in culture & society, mobile | No Comments »

Commercial Whiplash: Nokia, carriers, and why Canada is still full of crap mobiles

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

On Nokia's shrinking North American market share: "(Samsung & others) were quick to meet carriers’ customization demands, an area in which Nokia proved reluctant." (http://bit.ly/zuSN). But this is precisely why Nokia ought to be lauded - for its efforts in putting out handsets that straddle grids/networks (3g/wi-fi) and balancing different interaction ...

Posted in creative industries, critical constructivism, indie, mobile, open source, political economy, technology | 3 Comments »

Mesh Potato, Community Wireless, Design by Constraint

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I'm hyped about Mesh Potato and I am aiming to be involved in their project in whatever way I can be useful, whether via some connection to Mobile Muse, or just plain old twit-and-post evangelism. Mesh Potato is an Open Hardware project to create a wireless (mesh) access point that can ...

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Twittering the Election, SIFTing Media Collections

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

If you haven't seen this already, then go check it out. Terse political opinions fly by with impunity. What to do, what to do...and how does media theory speak to this? I can anticipate hundreds of approaches, from critical political economy to social constructivism to what-have-you ... but then again, ...

Posted in content aggregation, critical constructivism, culture & society, drupal, mobile, Mobile Muse, open source, political economy, SCOT, STS, technology, work | No Comments »

Nokia’s Legends Telegraph

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Nokia's done something intriguing here in terms of marketing. Not sure where this is going exactly, but it's interesting.

Posted in culture & society, marketing, mobile | No Comments »

Android

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Exciting times. Right on the heels of our Open Mobile event, the first Google Android handset has been released on T Mobile - the HTC Dream, announced just this morning in NYC. And it's wi-fi (!!!) Now if only I had an in over at HTC, or if a Canadian provider had ...

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Open Mobile, as it happens

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

It was fun setting up to Brian Eno's Music for Films, which cast an alternately serene and ominous shadow over our dry runs with the 3 screens. I think the keynote went over well. The tech worked out supremely, with all 3 screens going, SIFT aggregation, Movino, ...

Posted in culture & society, events, Fearless City, mobile, Mobile Muse, Whistler | 1 Comment »

Open Mobile

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I'm presenting a keynote this Sunday for an event called Open Mobile, presented in part by Mobile Muse as part of New Forms Festival 2008. I'm co-presenting with Roland Tanglao and Jesse Scott (artist info here), who will be my visual accompanists. But hopefully their visuals will override and scramble ...

Posted in conferences, culture & society, events, Fearless City, mobile, Mobile Muse, open source, political economy, technology, theory, Whistler, wi-fi | 4 Comments »