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Enjoying the freedom of portable apps.

Jul 5, 2010

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in mobile, observation, social media, work

Reading Time: 2 minutesPortable Apps is an interesting option for those of us who use work computers rather than our own. It is also a good solution for those of us who change desktop all the time but can’t play with our phones whilst at work. A few days ago I wrote about Chrome as…

About the Ipad, which I will refer to as the Itablet in this post.

Jan 28, 2010

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in Apple, mobile, observation, social media

Reading Time: 3 minutesDesigners must understand that user interface as well as ease of use are the two most important features of any electronics device. The more intuitive the device the more likely people are to keep using it. As a first generation Ipod touch user and an iphone 3gs owner I see the value…

Foursquare and evolving electronic social meetings

Jan 9, 2010

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in observation, Real Time Web, social media, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’ve all got smartphones. Some of us are using Nokia, Â others are using blackberries and yet more are using Android and Iphones. As a result when we interact with people we are not interacting with them from a desk somewhere in a building. We’re interacting with them from the middle of the…

Driving and Situational Awareness

Mar 7, 2009

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in observation

Reading Time: 2 minutesHow comfortable are you behind the wheel? How many hours a week do you think you spend driving? The reason I ask these questions is that I often spend fourty minutes a day on the road and as a result I tend to watch everything that’s happening around me. That’s because car…

Obama’s inauguration as seen in Geneva, Switzerland

Jan 20, 2009

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in observation, social media, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis video filmed with the HDR-SR12 in Geneva Switzerland at La Reserve wine bar. The event was organised via facebook.

Eclau in Lausanne

Dec 17, 2008

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in observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Co working space in Lausanne (ECLAU/FB) is an interesting idea for freelancers and those who have some work to do but do not want to work from home or a cafe. There are desks and couches, a meeting space and more from which individual work and team work can be…

The Social Media Lifestyle

Dec 15, 2008

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in observation, social media

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI believe I’m living the social media lifestyle, that is that wherever I go I have both my mobile phone and my ipod touch. As a result I am never more than a hotspot away from the world wide web and it’s content. In Switzerland I’m online as I hike through…

The Social Media Autumn

Oct 22, 2008

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in observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLiz Strauss wrote about the leaves and the trees and that got me thinking of the Social Media autumn. It’s the time of the year when everyone gets back to work after summer and they no longer have as much time to be sociable, whether online or offline and as the…

The Francofous like to migrate

Oct 9, 2008

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in observation, seesmic, social media

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Francofous are part of the seesmic community and can be differentiated by their ability to speak french and their avatars. Originally formed around Seesmic and twitter they are now migrating to both plurk and phreadz, two services I have talked about in the past. What is nice about this community…