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Category Archives: phones
New Tools, Same Rules
Myspace and Facebook have gone mobile. And new companies are cropping up each day to get in on the new mobile socializing. An article in the Boston Globe this morning featured two companies seemingly making a dent in this field … Continue reading
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More Thoughts on Net-Locality
Allen Smith, who works for WHERE, contacted me about my last post with an interesting corrective: “I always thought about recent phone technology as allowing the internet to come out into the world and overlay it with information, I never … Continue reading
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Location widgets
Location is the next frontier in computing. The company uLocate has announced a competition for developers to make location-based widgets. uLocate’s new location-widget feature, called simply Where, is essentially a collection of little programs that mash-up data from the Internet … Continue reading
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Putting Theory into Action
Everything is going full speed ahead. The Boston Redevelopment Authority has agreed to fund the first phase of the Hub2 program. They’re going to pay for student tuition, evaluation, TA support and design. It’s great news and we’re thrilled that … Continue reading
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Tracking Kids
Appealing to kids is big business. This NPR story covers the various technologies meant to appeal to children – but more importantly, meant to give parents new ways of keeping track of them. Most interestingly, it introduces the concept of … Continue reading
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