How To Go Ubicomp Shopping

Posted in Creativity Knowledge, General on Mar 6th, 2008 Write a comment »

Time for another Creativity Knowledge. Today I’m pointing you towards Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), aka. Calm Technology.
How could you make shopping for food easier?
Imagine making a shopping list on your computer. As you head out the door to the supermarket the shopping list automatically stores itself on your mobile phone. Of course you’re always forgetting […]

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Be Synthetically Or Naturally Happy?

Posted in Adaptive, Personal on Mar 27th, 2007 Write a comment »

Here’s a great TED talk by Dan Gilbert where he talks about Synthetic versus Natural Happiness. “Natural Happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic Happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted.”

During the talk he discusses the implications of some experiments which demonstrate that giving […]

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A Social Network Built By You: Ning

Posted in Adaptable, Virtual on Mar 5th, 2007 Write a comment »

Scoble’s two interviews with Ning co-founders (Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen) are interesting: Social Networking with Ning, version 2.0 and Build your own social space with Ning, version 2.
I haven’t played with Ning (yet) but based on the video and from reading around it sounds like the commoditization of software infrastructures for social software.
The implications […]

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