My university commencement speech for 2010 (March 1st, 2010 - 331 views)
This week is the beginning of university life for thousands of recent high school graduates. There is lots of fun to be had, lots of learning, and time to build the vision of where you want to be in the next few years. I have been asked what I would recommend doing – I don’t [...]
Filtering the web of social data (February 9th, 2010 - 270 views)
The increase in connectedness combined with the torrents of realtime data that are spewing from our personal APIs means that there is a huge amount of data flying around, leading inevitably to overload. This creates a space for both technical and intuitive filters to emerge to help us navigate through the masses of social messages, [...]
Your Personal API (February 6th, 2010 - 388 views)
Everyone has a Personal API these days. Look at my blog sidebar – I put my photos on flickr, my messages on twitter, my location on dopplr, my places on foursquare, my bookmarks on delicious, my music on last.fm, and they’re just the regular ones let alone everything else.
Your mix of APIs might look slightly [...]
What is my signal vs noise? (December 1st, 2009 - 671 views)
I have been thinking quite a bit lately about which messages in my stream people like to see and haven’t come to any real conclusions… Is it signal? Is it noise? Foursquare?
What better way to find out than to ask you! What do you like? What don’t you like? Why do you follow?
I’d love to continue [...]
Augmented Reality is here (August 25th, 2009 - 743 views)
Wherever we go, there is always a huge amount of meta-information around us – it’s just not visible without a medium to show it. The hardware necessary for augmented reality is finally in our hands thanks to the iPhone, the PSP, and many other new phones.
The basic concept is that the camera in the device takes a [...]
