January 11th
The iPhone has no Buttons!
I’m really enjoying the discussion about the lack of buttons on the new iPhone.
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ARCHIVE: January, 2007
January 10th
Killer Mobile App? Making Phone Calls
Like everyone else, I hung on every word that Steve Jobs said during his keynote yesterday. He said a lot of important things, some of which will affect the way software is made and used in the future. And, being that he’s talking about reinventing the mobile phone, our social lives in and around mobile […]
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January 8th
Blogs enable more than they begin
From Brands for the Chattering Masses (NYT – link works right now but may go behind pay wall at any moment) “FOR many, many decades, successful branding — one of the corporate world’s holy grails — involved a clear set of rules. Produce quality goods at the right price. Frame the value in memorable messages […]
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January 6th
3 Predictions about Apple’s Social Software Future
The upcoming Macworld starts Monday. Here are some thoughts about where Apple might go with social software and hardware. First off, Apple is making a huge social software push. This is indicated not only in the up and coming MacWorld rumors, but in their already-released details of the next release of OS X: Leopard. If […]
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January 5th
Continuous Computing: all social, all the time
John Brockman, who publishes the well-known Edge newsletter, has an interesting prediction for social software as it goes mobile. “WE WILL SEE migration of social applications as user-generated content moves to the WiFi environment. YouTube, MySpace and multi-user games will be available on hand-held devices, wherever you go. People will carry their digital assets much […]
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January 4th
Does SPAM force us to switch messaging technologies?
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Danah Boyd’s site about social network fatigue, or why people switch messaging technologies (in particular social networks) over time. One view is that SPAM eventually overrides every technology, forcing people to move to something else. A commenter, JD, suggested that SPAM killed Usenet, Email, and IM, and […]
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January 3rd
Review of 2006 Predictions
Last year I made several predictions about trends to watch in 2006 (Part I, Part II, and Part III) In an interest of accountability, I thought I would quickly recap them and see how I did. (too many folks making predictions never go back to see how they did…we really have no idea who to […]
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January 2nd
Josh and Jared Show
Jared and I are trying something new: a weekly (or so) podcast on an informal subject that’s making the rounds in the blogosphere. Here’s the first episode: Josh & Jared Show: Episode #1 In this episode we dig further into my so-called “War on Information Architecture”, and tease out some of the larger questions that […]
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