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It will be very interesting to watch Google’s Android play out in the market. The basic challenge faced by all those who want to eventually see useful, reliable, trustworthy mobile computing devices is a rewiring of the basic competitive landscape that delivers the services, the devices, and the connectitivity into our hands. The wireless carriers [...]

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Cory Doctorow nails my skepticism about the current crop of social networking site: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook

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 Over at Mutating Pictures, Philipp Lensman started wit a pool of 1000 randomly created images, and is asking people to rate how much each image looks like a face. He put the site up yesterday, and look how far it’s come. There’s also a forum at Google Blogoscoped, where technical details and the implementation  are [...]

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I am consistently impressed by the quality of Bruce Sterling’s thought. His recent Wired piece, Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future, is no exception. It’s a fictional set of blog posts from 2017 made by a hyperconnected Cory Doctorow stand-in who specializes in the applications of computing power embedded in everyday objects and ubiquitous network connectivity. [...]

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I’ve heard rumblings from some quarters about a return to the salad days of the ’90′s for the IT industry, this time with Open Source and Web 2.0 inflating the bubble. Setting aside the question of whether the dot-com bubble was something to which we’d actually want to return (it isn’t), the possibility of a [...]

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Mind’s a blank slate this morning, and it’s later than usual. The day with all its competing demands is pressing in on me. Not sure how much I can write before I’m swamped and spinning and pulled in all directions. Have been having a series of business ideas for the past few months that share [...]

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