Det måtte jo komme. 10-12 års overspringshandlinger på internettet har endelig slået lidt af sig.

Jeg intet mindre end pivstolt over at være blevet udnævnt til digital ekspert pÃ¥ Danmarks uden tvivl bedste podcast – kommunikationscast.com bestyret af min kære “pap-kollega” Katrine Emme Theilke og Mikkel Westerkamp.

Nu skal jeg bare lige over min forkølelse, og lære at snakke lidt mindre i indskudte sætninger. Måske. jeg mener. øøøh. Ja. Spændende bliver det, jeg kan slet ikke vente til at få min første opgave. Bring it on.

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“An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator…. these are NOT three separate devices!”
Steve Jobs Keynote

Så skete det, alle rygterne om Apples iPhone er indfriet. Skal man grine eller græde?

PÃ¥ den en side ligner iPhone en mellemting mellem en superstylish PDA og en PSP konsol, og der er ikke noget kamera i… WTF. (De havde sÃ¥ ogsÃ¥ lige fÃ¥et klemt 2 megapixel ind i bagsiden) Og jeg bliver bange for batteriniveauet i sÃ¥dan en fætter med superskarp skærm og wifi (de lover 5 timers, tale, browse tid (hmmm)).

PÃ¥ den anden side Waaauv it’s a beauuuuty. Og den køre OS X. Apple kan virkelig trylle, interaktionsdesign mæssigt trækker de pÃ¥ hele batteriet. Holy smoke. og der nogle nifty innovationer pÃ¥ navigations, som vil kunne vække salige Jeff Raskin til live igen. Integrationen med Safari, Google og yahoo, og det at bringe widgets ind pÃ¥ den mobile platform, er godt set.
Men måske Apple her gør regning uden vært. En ting er at konkurrrere med Windows på konsum-markedet (Zune ser rimelig sucky ud nu). Med iPhone ligger de sig også ud med Nokia og Sony Erisson.
Apple har dog stadig den helt fantatiske fordel (som de dyrker til perfektion) at telefonen hopper lige ind i iTunes fødekæden og derved rykker syncing og intregeret kommunikation med computeren lysÃ¥r frem i tiden. Det er et omrÃ¥de ingen mobilproducenter har gidet at dyrke. Jeg købte for nyligt en Sony Erisson K800i og den medfølgende software var ganske enkel helt igennem ubrugelig. So for all it is worth – jeg skal have en iPhone.

UPDATE: SÃ¥ fik jeg set Steve Jobs keynote – oh boy, den dreng kan virklige sælge varen. Nu er jeg helt solgt.

Wow, tangible interfaces has surely come along way, just check out this multi touch "Minority Report" like demo and what seems to be navigation of Google Earth, and a super-funky DJ like interface.

more on Multi-Touch Interaction Research

Oh, and if you believe that graffiti can’t be deligthfully poetic then watch this.

He’s been talking about the 100$ laptop project for years and now it is here! The computer will be given to children in third world contries under the credo “one laptop per child”. Yesterday Negroponte revealed it at a Unicef summit on the Information Society held in Tunisia.

The interesting stuff here is NOT that Negroponte and the team, consisting of prominent people including Alan “dynabook” Kay succesfully manage to produce a laptop that actually perform pretty well, does most of the job the laptops 10 times the price do, and is less energy-consuming (with a nifty handcranck if power is not availible), durable, virtually indestructable. We all knew it could (should) be done, and thus it is cool.

And it is not that they designed something that look like it came out of a Benetton ad.

The really interesting and what should be the benchmark for this project is the outcome – a longterm leap in the third world. To do so we need to see many more than the device. Because the truely great challenge: to make useful in everyday life, to educate people to use it, to explore it and to make it work within the society and culture that it is to be dropped off into? It will need to be followed by many more initiatives on the ground, education, infrastructures, network, powerlines, other devices. Will it compute? Let’s hope!

And oh, just so you know, it won’t be in the your local Toys’r'us next to the X-box’s this christmas!! Btw.. try bying something that the third world actually would profit from this year – that’s a challenge!

Via BBC

Kris Cohen, needs some airplay here, I recently had the fortune to hear a talk Kris gave, marking the end of his work with INCITE group at University of Surrey, UK (where I’ll soon be a visiting researcher, more on that later) – There is now a podcast out on the talk, and I command you to listen to it. It’s a good 1,5 hours of elegantly elaboration of what Kris has found in his interviews with some 60 people using photosharing specifically flickr.com and lot’s of tasty sociological, cultural and art theoretical topings to go with it! Nutritious!

Here’s some background to the talk:

“Photos Leave Home”
I’m at the end of a one-year ESRC study of personal (aka snapshot, aka amateur) photography and its newly massive presence on the internet. The questions I was asking were less about why anyone would want to put their personal photographs online in the first place (although I have a little bit to say about the popularity and prevalence‹the apparent irresistability‹of that particular question) and more about the effects that this efflorescence of (a certain kind of) photography might be having on our ideas about what photography is and does. I’m in the process of writing a series of three papers, one of which addresses popular reactions to this ourpouring of heretofore sequestered (or privatised) photography, one of which addresses itself to the previous sociological literature on photography, and the last of which discusses these phenomena within a history and theory of images. Here, I’ll be primarily focused on the second of these papers, which considers photographs as “public” rather than social entities.

Get the cast by subscribing to this xml thingy through your Aggregator or iTunes: http://profiles.blipmedia.org/INCITE/podcast.xml

Kudos to Gerard for recording this!

Dear TDC,

Intel has now managed to set up a Wifi-hot spot on the North Pole. Huh… and I can’t even get an internet connection into my appartment!!?

Best,
Martin

Dagens bogstav er: B.

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• tjekket op pÃ¥ programmerne
• vejet kandidaterne
• …og fulgt instinkterne

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