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Site dedicated to Bluejacking
There is now even a website specifically dedicated to Bluejacking.
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Doug Engelbart’s "Neighbor"
Eugene Eric Kim at Blue Oxen Associates wrote A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools, which is quite interesting and thoughtful. In the acknowledgements, I’m listed right next to Doug Engelbart, probably one of the most influential people in this technology industry of ours over the last 30 years.
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In Praise of The Economist (the Weekly Newspaper)
If poetry is the way to create images, even whole lines of thought with very few words, the following quote from The Economist‘s July 3rd edition is pure poetry: Just 15 years after the Velvet Revolution, the Czech Communist Party has found a new way to threaten democracy: by getting dangerously popular. What do you…
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John Perry Barlow on the transformational impact of always-on audio/video
In John Perry Barlow’s new blog, he describes how a left-open, zero-cost Voice-over-IP conversation with Joi Ito in Japan got him to think about the transformational impact of always-on audio/video. I fully agree: it really provides "tunnels" through the 3 dimensions of physical space, thereby making the world much more complex and more powerful. What…
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Death of e-mail?
It has become really fashionable lately to talk about the death of e-mail (even VCs do it, see here). Two major issues, at least in my mind, aren't typically being covered, however: the analogy with usenet, and the impact of market-dominant e-mail clients (aka "what Microsoft, Lotus, AOL and Yahoo could do about it"). This…