A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior. Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes. New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way. Still no mention of using [...]
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Tagged: consumerism, future, mobile, technology, web
An interesting article was brought to my attention via Twitter this afternoon. Melanie McBride tweeted an article written last December that presents the complex issue of self celebration on the web through a particularly unsettling case of a Facebook group named 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night where thousands of posted pictures depict [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, facebook, identity, privacy, self, web
There’s a great post over at Swift Kick Central covering some important issues about digital identity management. It hits on a lot of things I bring up in my senior thesis about the merging of information-systems (which I ultimately got from Joshua Meyrowitz in his book No Sense of Place) and what this might [...]
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