Queue, the ACM journal has a special issue about social software. Among the different articles, the one entitled "Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise" by David Millen, Jonathan Feinber and Bernard Kerr caught my eyes. The tagline is very appealing: "Can your organization benefit from social bookma...
Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers and 'new media'
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently aired a new report about New Report on Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers. Some of the conclusions: Many child development experts believe that the qualities inherent in some media – such as interactivity, repetition, and the ability to cu...
Wearable computing and Mobile computing convergence
Via Roland's sunday trend: What Would You Do with a Wearable Computer? By Mark Long.Here is a summary of the pertinent statements the article presents: "Although we've been talking about wearable computing for a decade, it is only now that the general public gets what that is, there's still a lon...
Ray Ozzie interview
In ACM Queue, there is also the interview of ray Ozzie (by Wendy Kellog. There are some very clever ideas raised in this article: When I was at Lotus in the early ’90s, companies were a lot more vertically integrated than they are right now. At that time, people were attempting to use fairly nascen...
Ephemeral architecture by Guy Riotter
A project from 1958 by Guy Riottier called "ARCHITECTURE EPHEMERE et de RECUPERATION". I was interested by two amazing realisations. The first one (on the left) is a "holiday village made of old parisian buses (which price is way lower than real holiday houses as stated by the author). The second i...
Deaf people and cell phones
An article about how deaf persons benefit from cell phone features in french journal Liberation has caught my interest this morning. Actually there are two important things: SMS (+IM on blackberry) that allows them to communicate and the number/caller display that easily tell them who is calling. T...
Virtual ethnography
Issues in Virtual Ethnography by Bruce Mason (2001). In Ethnographic Studies in Real and Virtual Environments: Inhabited Information Spaces and Connected Communities. Ed. K. Buckner. Proceedings of Esprit i3 Workshop on Ethnographic Studies. Edinburgh: Queen Margaret College, January 1999. Pp. 61-6...
Workshop about mobile devices use
A relevant workshop at Pervasive Computing 2006: PERMID 2006: Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices - Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices -: The main goal of the workshop is to develop an understanding of how mobile devices (particularly mobile phones, smartphones and...
Video games and "the economics of fun"
A relevant article about Edward Castranova's work in The Economist. Entitled "Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games", the book shows how the online game industry is an excellent way to study what the author calls "the economics of fun". Of course it deals with MMORPG economics ...
Meeting at Imagination Lab, Lausanne
Today I had an interesting meeting with Johan Roos, the Director of Imagination Lab Foundation. Imagilab is an independent, non-profit research institute founded in 2000 and operating from Lausanne, Switzerland. Its raison d’être is to develop and spread actionable ideas about imaginative, reflecti...