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technology, storytelling, and post-human progress

Ideas in Motion

Mobility      Technology     Interfaces     Social & Media      Beyond Microsoft


Mobility & Location — Lately, I’ve been writing quite a bit about the iPhone and about the possibility of mobile platforms with location-awareness and speech recognition built-in — we’re almost there with platforms like iPhone, Android, Adobe AIR, and SilverLight. Recent Mobile Posts »


Interface Inputs — thoughts on how we interact with technology and systems. Interfaces themselves are becoming increasingly human-friendly, and track brain/machine interface elements that allow granular control over software activities. More »


Future of Collaboration — social input on the web, collaborative media building. Recent Update: Seattle Business Monthly covers my user-generated product effort at WhitePages.com. More »


Idea Proliferation — a continuing fascination with how ideas seep into culture. Recent updates include notes on peak oil and GenX retro-farmers, political commentary and pagan sub-cultures. More »


I’ve also written Beyond Microsoft: a book about software innovation, based partially on my career at Microsoft and several other large software companies. During the initial writing of the book, I maintained the Beyond Microsoft blog, to which I still occasionally post commentary.

More on Beyond Microsoft »

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