Good thoughts on designing for internet and web behaviours esp drift.

nice snapshot of 62 thoughts from the leading lights in mobile design. timo arnall's stand out.

interesting examples of synthetic stuff and how it's changing how we think and use things

For Titus, the mobile becomes the converged overlord over all media, a personal scheduler, player, communicator and whatever else it needs to be. But it also enables the content paradigm to shift from ownership to sampling or licensing, with the mobile as the cache that manages access to an infinite wealth of content stored and delivered from elsewhere.

“There’s great opportunity here to create an ecology of services embodied as robust, valuable, exciting new tools with focused, limited functionality, tied together with item-level identification and wireless networks. Whole classes of things that can enrich our lives and bank accounts are now possible thanks to the way ubiquitous computing interweaves services and devices at an intimate, everyday level….

interesting bunch of speakers...

villains - objectifying and placing them. a wonderful thought train from Jones

Nokia Games Summit - nokia to focus on location based games

Command line languages; Physicality: the return to physical devices, where we control things by physical body movement, by turning, moving, and manipulating appropriate mechanical devices.

The future? If you have maps on fabric then nappy maps and shirt maps are clearly on the horizon. No longer will you raise your arm to look at your watch, your cuff will be a printed map.

Slides from an IBM presentation in 1975. Retro-futurist-cool.

£50m. That should provide some incentive... now for the scramble.

a spam-u-like offer to teens that gives service provision [txt and minutes] in exchange for txts from brands.

TINA overview. For a longer look at scenario planning check out Art Kleiner's excellent book 'The Age of Heretics'...