M and I had a nice halloween evening. Dressed up in victorian duds, answered the door for kids, and visited neighborhood haunted house.
Been a while since I’ve been to a #breakfastcabal at Saul’s in Berkeley. Nice group of people.
Anyone have any Leopard Server stories yet?
L:Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Berkeley, CA - Y!RB Brain Jam: Interpreting and acting on mobile awareness cues http://tinyurl.com/yteq3w
Antti Oulasvirta
Antti Oulasvirta is speaker - http://www.hiit.fi/u/oulasvir
Antti Oulasvirta: awareness cues are projections of remote states-of-affairs. They are human centric, not computer centric.
Antti Oulasvirta: open questions: what cues do mobile people need, how are cues used and appropriated, and how to design effective cues.
Antti Oulasvirta: Uses: mobility coordination (rendezvous), ad hoc encounters (bar), coordinating communications (when to not call)…
Antti Oulasvirta: … and companionship (feeling of connectedness)
cues in 2004 version of cell phone software in finland….
… district (hint of place), # friends near, # bt phones, duration here, alarm profile, and hand (has the phone been used recently).
Antti Oulasvirta: after adding social cues to software, daily amount of use of cell phones per person increased, as did calls placed, …
… and having cues available increased use of contact list.
Very interesting device of the “hand” cues – these were if someone had used the phone recently. They found that users would check this alot
L:Foresight Vision Weekend, Yahoo! HQ, Sunnyvale, CA http://www.foresight.org/SrAssoc/2007/program.html
Replying to @missrogue
Maybe we should start competing with them. I’ve got an idea for a twitter client that does what you need from Plazes.
Eugene Kim: “Collaboration happens when there is a Shared Bounded Goal”
Replying to @ross
Give us an URL for the IDEO designed bike?
Eugene Kim: (more accurate quote) “Collaboration: two or more people interacting and sharing knowledge in pursuit of a shared bounded goal.”
My comment to Eugene is that the collaboration definition may be missing “intentionality” - is it a collaboration w/o the parties intention?
Replying to @missrogue
My primary reservation to my idea is that to implement it I may also end up unintentionally competing with Twitteriffic.
Replying to @missrogue
a key question for you-what bizmodel can a service provider of place information that is parallel to the data that plazes has?
Back at #Foresight
Replying to @brianshaler
You should definitely take a look at my Dunbar Number articles starting at http://tinyurl.com/e3t8w and /37lhst
Rob Tow http://www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow/ – User inteface magic: contiguity, contagion, simularity, invocation
Rob Towe: design animism
Rob Towe: ectoplasmic interface
Off to Apple in Cupertino to meet with Keith Stattenfield.
Installing Leopard Server on my old G5 xserve.
Yes! I’ve got portable home directories working with #Leopard Server! I can log in with a portable, my home dir filevault is synced…
… then I can take my portable away, and when I return and log out my home directory is synchronized back!
Replying to @amyjokim
If you are designing rating/ranking systems, I recommend you to my series on the topic, the latest at http://tinyurl.com/ywh9s2
Back from Berkeley Breakfast Gang at Saul’s. Good conversations.
I love the Safari 3.0 “merge all windows” feature.
At www.BerkeleyCoworking.com this afternoon.
Just interviewed by Carl Bialik, the Wall Street Journal NumbersGuy http://wsj.com/numbersguy on the topic of the Dunbar Number.
Experimenting with WinClone to backup my working Leopard BootCamp partition. Restored it on another machine, worked fine.
Frustrated: both my google mail and google reader seem to be down. It starts, but then never finishes.
Entering some data on my SF&F favorite books into the www.Xenagia.net index.
Replying to @JasonCalacanis
I’d love to see a page that summarizes my work on Dunbar Number (starting at http://tinyurl.com/e3t8w)) and monkeysphere.
Haven’t been able to shake this cold. Throat is worse today, I thought it was getting better.
Just tried the 10.5.1 Leopard update – it failed to completely reboot my machine, had to hard reboot after it was stuck for over 10 mintues
Replying to @raines
I may not be able to make it to facilitators breakfast, to my regret. I’m still coughing from bad cold.
Testing out #tweetchannel at the suggestion of @stuarthenshall – I’ve been causually using #hashtags in my tweets for a while.
Replying to @raines
And no name for this inspirational former boss? Your twitters are private, so spill ;-)
#hashtags apparently are required by tweetchannel to be at the beginning of the twitter?
Doing a “pajama” Thanksgiving. Baking a 10lb turkey, all fixings previous prepared, 2 DVDs, and all-and-all taking it easy.
Had a good talk with Daniel Silverstein about OpenSocial and Oauth.
Catching on post-turkey holiday work. M sick with the flu, so also taking care of her. No coworking visit today.