After the introduction of the Apple iPad most of the blogosphere filled with critiques and rants, specked here and there with some praising stories. I must admit that my very first reaction was also skeptical, but when I took time to view Jobs’s iPad presentation (‘the day after’) and thought a little bit about what [...]
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Why the Apple iPad is a computing revolution in disguise
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Tags: Amazon Kindle, Apple, blogosphere, business models, consumer electronics, digital media, eReaders, future trends, Google Chrome OS, industry disruption, iPad, lightweight computing, media industry, Steve Jobs, usability, user experience
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Reply to ‘Streams And Sense Making’ of Stowe Boyd
Monday, December 21st, 2009
@stoweboyd wrote a post (’Streams And Sense Making‘) in which he also reacts to my last webtrends post ‘Towards a web of activity streams realizing the synaptic web paradigm‘.
Since my comments on his post became to long I decided to publish it as a post (point taken Stowe :). Although my response is directed to [...]
Tags: activity streams web, future trends, real-time web, reply to, sensorium, social media, Stowe Boyd, synaptic web, web search
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Towards a web of activity streams realizing the synaptic web paradigm
Monday, December 21st, 2009
In the previous two weeks I’ve been reading multiple posts and tweets that show the vague contours of a trend towards a new kind of web, the web of (real-time) activity streams. This new web will effectively implement the synaptic web paradigm. In this post I give a rough overview of some of my current [...]
Read complete post »Tags: activity streams, activity streams web, APIs, future trends, open social web, open standards, platforms, protocols, real-, real-time web, social media, synaptic web, twitter
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