My Bonsai Is Texting Me!

This is the presentation I gave at the Marcus Evans conference on the future of Mobile Messaging. The conference title was "Next generation mobile messaging". The main messages I want to transfer is The Internet of Things is becoming a reality. Not only humans can send messages. (Social) Application can send messages. Objects can send […]

7 Features Of The Perfect Social Networking Desktop Client

In the I have tested pretty much any Social Networking dektop client application out there, but I have never been able to find the perfect solution to my needs. As a compromise I ended up using Tweetie to manage Twitter, Thwirl for FriendFeed and a few tabs in the browser for other things like Facebook […]

An iPhone As A Baby Monitor… Or Use It As A Spy Device

I have been working into Innovation for a long time and part of my day job was trying to understand which side use our customers could make of the technology, product or service I was analyzing. One of the golden rules is that users are always more creative than you. They will always find different […]

The Part And The Whole, Or Why You Should Bother About Social Web.

Last night I met with an old friend that is taking a vacation from his job in California. We did not meet from a long time and we found ourselves talking about a number of different things. I have been told that he is really aware of what I am doing by following my wenlogs […]

Streaming Video Right From Your Phone With QIK

Qik is a brand new service that wille let you stream live content from your mobile phone to the Internet. Qik delivers a simple application to install on your mobile phone that will take control of your mobile phone camera and will deliver your video stream to QIK servers. From what I can read from […]

What If Thieves Were Social Too?

A few days ago I have written about the amount of information you may spread over the Internet and the traces of your lifestream. At the same time I run this news from InformationWeek: A couple of burglars were stymied when they tried to crack a safe, so they found a computer that had been […]

Online Identity. How Many Information Is Out There?

I have to say that I have no particular issue in revealing my identity on-line. My about page on this site is quite clear about that. Anyway I was just wandering how this information may be used or, better, mis-used. Between the tools that I use today I have: Jaiku Twitter Flickr del.icio.us LinkedIn Ziki […]

Addicted to Jaiku

I have been using Twitter for quite a time in the past, and I liked it. From a couple of weeks I have dropped Twitter and I have jumped into Jaiku. I have written in the past that I think that quite all applications should be built around the Contact list since it’s a revenue […]

Friends generated content

For several reasons I will not be attending the 3GSM World Congress this year. From the reports that I am reading from the Internet there is great focus on Media and Internet companies. Yahoo, Disney, MTV have their own booth at 3GSM and all the recent press releases talk about these companies and their initiatives […]

Twitter and the mobility dilemma

In the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with Twitter. Personally I think it’s a cool idea. It’s a very simple service that allows your friends or, if you don’t care much about your privacy, strangers to be updated on what you are doing. Using a mobile originated SMS, an Instant Message […]

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