When people ask what it’s like to work at kwamecorp, there is no easy answer. The diversity of people and projects varies tremendously. People here are both thinkers and doers. They come from a multitude of backgrounds and have a multitude of expertise that bridges disciplines and spans industries—including automotive, medical, consumer, retail, software, technology, [...]

Some times we pause and give ourselves a few minutes to put some thoughts down. This draft is a product of one of those moments. It’s a 4.5 minute presentation… not many pictures, just a simple narrative.

I was in the audience of a presentation by Dave Neary in Dublin a few days ago. The presentation was all about managing open source projects, i.e. managing the community that creates these projects.

I was reading Ant colony based hybrid optimization for data clustering, by Amarendra Nath Sinha and started thinking about ants and web and stuff… A lonely ant is a very fragile being. Their power, just like us, lies in communicative action. I use the term communicative action very loosely, this because in ant colonies there isn’t [...]

Recently I have been thinking a lot about ecology and its relationship with digital. I’ve been engaged in some interesting projects that surfaced some of the thinking I am describing here.

Habermas once wrote, and I am not quoting here: Rationality exists in the structures of interpersonal linguistic communication rather than the structure of either the cosmos or the knowing subject. In other words: everything exists in the realm of intercourse, social intercourse. The easiest representation of how the latter may start and end is the [...]

The word on the conference beat is now ‘the internet of things’. Maps are coming back and more prevalent than ever. In order to have objects connected we need to map them. Understand their position and ‘real’ context and react accordingly.

simple commands would create news. More powerful than waiting around and going through all the hash noise produced by twitting crowds. Manipulate the mob but do it blatantly.

Where do users get their content from: On one side users get  get their content from professional sources, who create and sell content. I was thinking the other day that most big broadcasters have the same setup, yet ratings vary tremendously: it comes down to the nature of content that is pushed and how aggressively it has [...]

A few years back, whilst doing some consulting for Orange I came across widgets. Looking at the evolution of interface architectures i put together this short train of thought. A book of hours. A revolutionary layout where information flourished in boxes which surfaced from wallpaper backgrounds. I’ve always loved the way cartoons organized a narrative [...]

The new iPlayer is more social, new Spotify is more social, everything and every service has gradually become more social… We’ve been working on this ‘social layer integration’ for a few years now, it’s always surprising how long it actually takes to become mainstream.

For many years we have been working under the assumption that there is a double layer between those who create and those who use/consume. The idea we’ve been toying with is one where this double layer should actually be more like a flexible membrane (see last slide). So what spawned this change? the fact that [...]