Super Animal Senses

We’re entering a world where the Web enters and inter­acts with everyday life. They talk about about RFID, near-​​​​field com­mu­nic­a­tions, online/​​inline and glance­able inter­faces. There’s a great video down the bottom that explains it all in a lot of detail.

What we’re talking about is things like:

Nike + – personal inform­a­tion aggreg­a­tion and sharing.

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These Foolish Things (remind me of you)

The video is of Bruce Sterling at the Lift con­fer­ence last year, reflecting on his 2005 book Shaping Things. It is about the Internet of Things, the idea and practise of giving objects in the physical world an Internet presence.

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So You Talk About A Revolution

Some bloggers do some­thing called ‘live blogging’ from con­fer­ences, wherein they aim to note, more-​​​​or-​​​​less verbatim, the content of the sessions they are attending. I am far too busy with other weighty intel­lec­tual matters at con­fer­ences - Twitter messages about the speakers’ funny haircuts and who else is here from Twitter — so it takes

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Emerging Trends Round-​​Up

In case you missed any of the inter­min­able ‘hot trends for 2008′ posts. Snagged from Read/​​Write Web.

 

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