January 2009 Archives

Pachube evolved out three strands of thought:

1) the geographical non-specificity of architecture these days as people live their lives in constant connection with people in remote spaces

2) a desire to open up the production process of “smart homes” in reaction to current trends for placing the design and construction process solely in the hands of knowledgeable others.

3) an emphasis on contextually specific “environments” rather than object-centric “sensors”

absolutely fabulous tool to imbue meaning to error messages. Thanks to Maya's "interpersonal errors" :-)

RCA project site. Great stuff :-)

An open source project you can join without having to know how to use cvs. Do think UE in soft/fuzzy/human terms? Then why not try this one (from http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/)

interesting slideshows

agencies oh my...

Nice Likert scale labels designed for attitude capture - the words are linear and in the same scale making for a better (more reliable) response. Of course my personal take on Likerts is that they pretty much never allow me to express my true feelings.

note to self, buy shares in Plug Power Inc.

well I can sort of feel a pwn coming on...

Wow, if the Somali pirate chaps ever decide to plunder Southend-on-sea they're gonna need this sucker. real-time ship tracing no less

I'll be in Dusseldorf in a workshop during the inauguration. Fingers crossed this works on the iPod...

The guys who did the laptop orchestra do it again but with mobiles

interesting company... working on product innovation (human centric)

the "Nine Inch Nails Theory of Entrepreneurship":

1. Love your clients/customers/stakeholders
2. Find business models that accurately capture the value you're trying to create in ways that people respond to with joy
The value an organization or a business creates is not static. In the music world, the way value is priced (the cost of music) has stayed largely static, despite the costs involved in reproduction and distribution dropping to almost nothing. This has (clearly) produced a backlash.

3. Turn possible threats to opportunities to amplify brand love

Headsets for pilots in noisy cockpits or... annoying open plan office phone conferences