Bill Joy calls mobile Internet the ‘here’ web
When will there be more wireless Internet users than wired? Mid 2007 would be my guess. Bill Joy is putting his money–or, more accurately, his VC firm’s money–on the Web as the platform of the future.Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a driving force behind the creation of Berkeley Unix and Java, among other technologies, [...]
There’s a moose loose
Story about True Blue – another good find via Jyri: True Blue Love is a mobile phone social networking experience, designed to explore the politics behind intimate phone-based relations. Designed as a program for mobile phones; each participant enters into the program the characteristics of their ideal sexual mate, chosen from a series of preset [...]
I want to break free
From Jyri: Three, the UK operator, sells 3G contracts but doesn’t tell its customers that it blocks them from accessing the internet. Al Iguana shares the experience: I got an amazing new phone, a Nokia 6680. Symbian 60, dual camera… you can read reviews of it all over the internet. Superb bit of kit. My [...]
First Past the Post
This blog is going to be looking at what happens when the Internet goes mobile, bumps into people and veritably collides with the media industry. It will be sporadic, of wildy varying quality, and the posts will be liberally doused with inpenetrable English asides, tossed in pretension and given a light sprinkling of off-topic rants. [...]
- RT @agingtoo: Four keys to unlocking the aging opportunity (presentation) http://t.co/yFZ5TWMf
- Er, hold the champagne. Seems that SOPA was just a feint to distract attention from ACTA, its scarier big brother. http://t.co/tD45CEk5
- Yep, I think I'll be taking a few trips to San Francisco next year: Fastest America's Cup Ever http://t.co/6FDi9SQs via @bi_enterprise
- Come to Social Media Week in NYC 13-17 Feb, it'll be awesome, healthhub especially. Registration is live: http://t.co/LDpK8Bty #SMW12
- Some interesting innovation challenges by the Living Labs Global Award, e.g. this from Eindhoven for reducing obesity: http://t.co/b1vCsr9W
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- Accu Chek Mobile on TedMed 2010 Report
- Kathrin Campbell on The danger of making excuses
- samantha on Review: W Retreat and Spa, Bali
- Cellnovo raises $48m to bring Apple-like experience to diabetes management « ThreeDimensionalPeople on TedMed 2010 Report
- Conrad on NYC startup watch: AdStruc, Vyou & Dotgo
Some stuff I read
- Aging in Place Thoughtful commentary about growing impact of longevity disruption
- Conrad Egusa Practical advice for getting startups off the ground
- Mobihealth News Brian Dolan’s excellent comprehensive guide to mobile healthcare news
- Quantified Self Extracing and making sense of data about ourselves
- Tim Ferris Life hacking guru, provider of the most value out of any book I’ve read, and a genuinely good guy.
- Venture Hacks Useful how tos for startups
Some stuff about me
- 2007/03 – Corporate Wikis Go Viral (Business Week) Two European companies show how the collaborative practice spreads from early adopters of wikis at work to become mainstream business tools
- 2007/03 – Recommended Reading (Wall Street Journal) Mr. Johnston is one of the brightest minds in the business of connecting people. His insights spring from working on Nokia strategy from London. The site focuses largely on the direction of the new economy and lets readers profit from the insights of some
- 2008/04 – Mobility and location (The Economist) – reg reqd MICHAEL HALBHERR was driving from Berlin to Budapest the other day when he passed what looked like an empty field. The fact that his mobile phone stayed quiet annoyed him. Here he was, speeding by the site of Napoleon’s great victory at Austerlitz, and no
- 2008/11 – Innovation in America: A Gathering Storm (The Economist) Confronted by Asia’s technological rise and the financial crisis, corporate America is losing its self-confidence. It should not
- 2009/06 – MBA Tales: Searching for Work in a Recession (Business Week) For the Class of 2009, landing a job may seem next to impossible, but for the Class of 2002, flexibility and persistence paid big dividends
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