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Archive for June, 2006

June 17th, 2006

it took me almost 2 days to figure out that you can use a Sony Ericsson D750i as a bluetooth-modem with a Powerbook and with the Austrian T-mobile as GPRS ( ) provider. It was simple in the end.
Just grab the scripts from Ross Barkman and at least if you are in Austria choose CID5 (despite the instructions of T-mobile ( ) that tell you CID3) with business.gprsinternet as APN.

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June 14th, 2006

Espen Andersen tells us about the upcoming changes in the media landscape by observing the customs of the younger generation and by refering to the changes the internet and its affordances brought to live: Searching is paramount to categorization. Google’s desktop search is one of his witnesses. He also observes a certain lack of interest or resistance to change in the ‘old’ businesses.

The Waning Importance of Categorization: “These people certainly aren’t stupid, but they tend to live in a self-selected cocoon where use of the Internet still is modeled on the analogue world - where computers and the Internet still are used to do the same thing as before, only faster, better, cheaper.

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June 11th, 2006

Completly forgot about that gig. I’m speaking (together with Barbara Kieslinger, Seb. Fiedler, Ton Zijlstra, and others I don’t know yet) at the EDEN ( ) conference “E-Competences For Life, Employment And Innovation”. The topic will be slightly changed as I’m going to talk about tagging ( ) in a closed environment with new data from my ex-application.

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June 1st, 2006

By making things visible, getting rid of workflow ( ) and structure - and freeing up time - an enterprise could tap into the added value of people’s networks within and outside of its firewalls - freeing up the power of innovation ( ) and productivity. But that will only happen as long as the individual and organizational benefits become visible themselves or some kind of pain forces change on the strongholds of command, control and planned (imposed) structure.

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