Wednesday, March 31, 2004|
Situated Software. I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between technologists who care about aesthetics and artists who aren't afraid of machines, which makes it a pretty good place to see the future. Part of the future I believe I'm seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I'm calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I'll call the Web School (the paradigm I learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues.
I see my students cheerfully ignoring Web School practices and yet
making interesting work, a fact that has given me persistent cognitive
dissonance for a year, so I want to describe the pattern here, even in
its nascent stages, to see if other people are seeing the same thing
elsewhere. - More at http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html [Clay Shirky's Essays] |
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T-Mobile has second thoughts about U.S. consolidation. Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kai-Uwe Ricke appears to have second thoughts about the impact of consolidation in the U.S. mobile communications market. [InfoWorld: Top News] 4:31:23 PM  comment
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DirectPop Email To SPOT Watches. JOEL JOHNSON -- DirectPop is a POP3-to-MSN Messenger gateway for shooting short messages to those Microsoft SPOT watches, via email instead of an actual Messenger client. DirectPop uses a keyword validation to prevent just anyone from using it as an open spam relay into your watch. It also has the... [Gizmodo] 4:30:30 PM comment
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Consumer packaged goods firms: No quick ROI from RFID. Major consumer packaged goods manufacturers don't expect an immediate ROI from using RFID tags and see it as a tactical investment necessary to meet customer mandates. [Computerworld News] 4:28:05 PM comment
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Seven Supports Brew. TOKYO and REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-- SEVEN Networks Inc. announced today that the company's mobile email software is now shipping on BREW-based handsets in the Japanese market. SEVEN's software provides secure, real-time access to Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP4 and POP3 email, calendar,... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 4:27:19 PM comment
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Sony Eric, CinemaElectric Partner. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-- CinemaElectric, Inc. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications have partnered to release CinemaElectric's award-winning PocketCinema(TM) mobile video content as well as graphics, animations and multimedia applications to mobile consumers in 48 countries in Europe, Africa and the... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 4:26:33 PM comment
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BellSouth's Post-LA Financials. ATLANTA -- On March 8, 2004, BellSouth Corp. announced a definitive agreement to sell its interests in its 10 Latin American operations to Telefonica Moviles, the wireless affiliate of Telefonica, S.A. Following generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the company's financial statements... [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 4:16:30 PM comment
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WiMax Will Prevail. Proprietary solutions for fixed wireless broadband are seeing a surge in demand. But with the support of equipment players like Siemens and Alcatel, plus Intel, WiMax will win the race, says ABI. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds] 3:59:59 PM comment
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Gates: Hardware Will Be Free. Microsoft has a fitful relationship with PC makers, so Bill Gates probably enjoyed predicting that advancing technology will blow a hole through their business model. And, naturally, Microsoft will be there to exploit it. [Wired News] 3:56:38 PM comment
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