http://www.mishmap.com Location and Technology Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:56:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Those of you following the rumors around tomorrow's highly anticipated Mac Tablet unveiling are likely expecting an oversized iPod Touch, ideal for e-reading, videos and gaming. Consensus points to a device running a slightly modified iPhone OS, so current app store applications will find additional real estate. There's also been a ... http://www.mishmap.com/2010/01/26/prediction-mac-tablet-will-have-2-screens/ In grade school history class, we learned about the profound change experienced by civilization as we progressed from tribes of hunter-gatherers to more sedentary communities. It seems ironic that today we observe the reverse shift, as we evolve from a (literally) plugged-in audience to mobile, interacting explorers. http://www.mishmap.com/2009/12/03/a-brief-historical-note/ The world wide web began as a bunch of simple, unconnected pages describing various interesting topics like famous dead presidents and upholstering strategies. It was eerily quiet because no one left a trace.  Then through some clever url formatting and the invention of cookies, websites learned to tie together each ... http://www.mishmap.com/2009/01/02/the-group-web/ What if it there was a tagging mechanism to annotate content with time relevance? It might facilitate indexing and exploration of the "recent" web instead of forcing us to drown in antiquated content.  While the Temporal Relevance slider enables human annotation of an item's projected loss of importance, this decay could ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/11/25/temporal-tagging/ I watched the N-Judah MUNI bus whiz by last night in San Francisco's Sunset district. I could easily have caught it if I busted into a quick jog, but with two buddies behind me, I figured it wasn't worth the collective effort. Still waiting 25 minutes later in a chilly, damp ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/10/05/i-missed-my-bus-ambient-web-please-help/ I'm impressed by Small Worlds, the virtual world (now in Beta) by New Zealand based Outsmart. Unlike worlds like Second Life, Small Worlds is an in-browser flash application that works without an audience diminishing separate download. As I'll explain in this post, it has the potential to bring ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/05/31/small-worlds-and-the-group-web/ I'm reading Everywhere by Adam Greenfield and came across a few paragraphs that describe today's facebook/twitter reality. With employers googling and myspacing potential new hires, it's unrealistic to be both a content publisher and expect a work/play division. And above all, what happens when the composite view we are offered of ... http://www.mishmap.com/2008/04/13/no-more-work-play-division/ Be sure to read Harvey Feldspar's recent geoblog about the impact of location-awareness: "Hyperlocality is transforming our lives at every scale: bodyware, roomware, streetware, cityware, nationware, and global ware. From nano to astro!" http://www.mishmap.com/2007/06/28/hyperlocality-from-nano-to-astro-or-life-imitates-web/ Something irks me about the recent hype surrounding the new Facebook Platform. Visually, these new applications all look the same and it feels so bland. Universally celebrated by both users and programmers, Facebook's decision to open up its ecosystem to developers certainly spiced up a social network formerly known for its ... http://www.mishmap.com/2007/06/19/avoid-fancy-applications-with-the-facebook-platform/ A mobile social network can recommend events of interest by analyzing information from users with similar profiles. For example: Miguel, a gay 30 year old New Yorker vacationing in San Francisco, wakes up on Sunday morning wondering what to do. His cell phone beeps with a text message suggesting that he ... http://www.mishmap.com/2007/05/19/event-recommendations-by-mobile-social-networks/