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Monday, November 18, 2002

Microsoft Plans to Introduce Smarter 'Personal Objects'. Microsoft is planning a category of products that the company's chairman, Bill Gates, calls "smart personal objects," including travel alarm clocks and wristwatches that receive text messages. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Business]
9:33:15 PM    

Information Convergence. Phil Wolff has some interesting speculations about the future of blogging in his post titled From .blog to converged client." An excerpt:

"Blogging is a form in transition.

Personally, I think blogging as a form will merge with all the other forms of digital expression. With email and IM first. With voice/video conferencing, streaming videos, browsing, and PowerPointing later.

Watch it change:

  • as more people blog from their foto-mobiles
  • as devices start to blog ("My car's day")
  • as audiobloggers create radio shows and videobloggers create televsion programming
  • as Sims characters start to blog.

Moving forward, see a convergent software client emerge.


Source: evanwolf group, 2002....

We're on our way. Blogging tools are starting to interact with email and sounds. PIMs are managing contact information across multiple applications. Community and collaboration features are as critical to games as traditional gameplay.

I'm calling it: 2003-2005 will see many clients converge, weblogs among them. The challenges? Immense. The rewards? Many and rich. The fun? Deep and lasting." [a klog apart]

Lots of implications. Lots of opportunities, especially for people that specialize in organizing information. Like, say, I don't know... librarians.

[The Shifted Librarian]
9:31:15 PM    

RFID Going Mainstream: Gillette Buys Half a Billion RFID Tags


9:26:47 PM    

FlashMX: Zoom Panel Component Beta. Nice Beta of a zoom panel component by Marcos Weskamp inspired by Sam Wan's Devcon presentation.... [Flash Blog]
9:19:54 PM    

Microsoft Shows 85% Profit Margins for Windows. Microsoft has revealed for the first time that it has made profit margins of 85 percent on its Windows system while its remaining businesses made losses. By Paul Abrahams, Ft.com. [New York Times: Technology]
9:16:37 PM    
HCI Student Speakers Series: John Kembel on Ideo

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John Kembel, a CMU HCI PhD student, spoke about his experiences working at Ideo, one of the premier product design consulting firms.

He mentioned three fun books:

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5:54:36 PM    

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