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Location & Context

3G Facetime – Does it Change Everything Again?

August 9, 2010
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If you got a new iPhone you will remember your first and perhaps only FaceTime call over WiFi. It was probably with a family member or a close friend. Then you promptly forgot about it. It’s best currently for a call home from a WiFi in the hotel type of moment. So it misses out [...]

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Go For a Walk – Share – The Future for Mobile Travel Guides? North Face and EveryTrails

August 4, 2010

Saw this announcement below for the North Face Trailhead App downloaded and had a quick look. After finding the trails near me (it’s accurate and they are good walks and biking areas) I looked at my current location. What impressed me (without a full usage experience – eg my own walk etc) was how this [...]

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Motorcycling with the iPad – Better than a laptop or notebook for certain

May 5, 2010
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I’ve been quiet on my iPad observations. Fact is I’ve just been enjoying it. Perhaps so much that I’ve even overheated it. There is no question it is a powerful multi-media consumption device. I much prefer it for reading, over both my iPhone and my laptop. Something tactile and satisfying about scrolling and turning pages [...]

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Blogging Lifestreams 2012 and My Personal Cloud

January 2, 2010

Yesterday I was tweaking my blog and generally updating myself with plug-ins and what others are doing with them. When I started blogging back in 2002 I was already thinking about lifestreams. Over the years I’ve blogged about and tried out Linkblogs (before bookmarking / del.icio.us) to both track content I see, help share it, [...]

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iStore coming to the iPhone – 2012? Amazon’s biggest threat?

December 7, 2009

I’m reading the NYTimes article on Apple’s app store and for anyone that reads me there’s no surprises in it. So lets think more broadly about the real implications and the strategic options. How is the app store evolution challenging Apple or what options is it creating for it? Then what might it mean for [...]

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Martin Geddes on Ideas at #eComm

October 28, 2009

“Today we’ve got missed calls, tomorrow the phone will tell you why you should call back.” Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy, BT Design says in his keynote address at Ecomm Europe09, that he will present some ideas (his own).  The era of minutes in telephony is gone. Goodbye minutes, hello moments. When a global business [...]

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