Digital Eco Logic
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. Social networks have made it easy to connect and gain visibility over each other’s activity, experiences, stories. Social, interpersonal awareness. Products aren’t really benefiting [...]
Habermas, address-books and mobile operator frustration
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 internet of maps
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. I revel in maps that empower indigenous tribes so they can claim their land [...]
Mob Manipulator
Patrick’s idea is simple. Get iReporters in the field (you and i + a mobile app). CNN then push a button and get well positioned iReporters to snap some images of a particular event. History is a draft and has been for a while now. Data is collected from different sources, put into context with [...]
Service ecosystems like cities
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 [...]
Intelligent boxes
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 [...]