4sq facts: l’altra sera un’amica raggiunge il gruppo, casualmente in un caffè. “come hai fatto?” “ho visto su 4sq che eravate tutti qui”

@ezekiel

mi ha indotto a riflettere sulla privacy, sulla completa assenza della privacy in questi tempi.

Inutile decidere di non segnare la nostra posizione, inutile resistere alla tentazione di aprire 4SQ o Gowalla, sicuramente l’ho avrà già fatto il nostro amico o qualsiasi altra persona presente nello stesso luogo, e magari avrà anche inserito il nostro nome tra i presenti.

Considerato l’incessante dilagare dei servizi di geolocalizzazione, come Foursquare, Gowalla o il promettente MobNotes, forse è il caso di rispolverare il Galateo aggiornandolo ai tempi moderni:

“Mario, posso condividere con il mondo il tuo party”

“Chiara, indico agli altri che siam qui a festeggiare il tuo compleanno”

Che ne pensate?

Nike-iPod Sport Kit Withings WiFi Body Scale

WideNoise - WideTag Inc

Every runner can monitor and share his performance just using the Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

We can share our weight on social network just using a connected body scale like Withings.

We can monitor and tweet sound pollution usign a simple iPhone + WideNoise App (still free on App Store) (full disclosure: I’m involved with WideTag Inc.).

On a recent post related to Dash7 I’ve talked about how smartphone enabled by Dash7 will give us a wide business opportunity, just thinking about the emergent LBS services.

Here we can listen Tim O’Reilly talking about the Internet of Things last week at MySQL Conference.

I’m driving down a street and I pass a smart poster pasted onto a building wall. This elicits a beep from my phone, because my phone has passively scanned the poster and discovered something that I want to be notified about (I’ve opted into receiving notifications only about certain things). Because it’s against the law where I live to check my mobile phone while driving, I wait till I’m parked and then I check what the beep was for. Turns out that one of my favorite bands is playing in the city tomorrow night! The smart poster I’d driven past was an advertisement for that band. So I then proceed to book a ticket, using my phone of course.

(source: What’s Next For Mobile Apps? )

I’m just thinking about a Dash7 App for self-broadcasting FuoriSalone events here on Milan.

This scenario will be driven by Dash7 app based on WideSpime infrastructure (disclaimer: I’m involved with WideTag Inc.)

WideSpime enables the rapid and scalable development of dependable solutions based on Social Hardware and services.

WideSPIME is a fault-tolerant, distributed and high-concurrency environment for building applications that can take advantage of existing cloud architectures. Its horizontal scaling and entrypoint independence allows the design of applications fully taking advantage of modern hardware architectures.

Dash7 is a wireless sensor networking standard that may play an important part in next-generation mobile services – including location-based services, the Internet of Things and social networking.

DASH7 has a range of hundreds of meters and can be used while on the move.

Communication between two DASH7-compatible devices occurs when they are brought within approximately 300 feet of one another and a wireless “hand shake” is initiated by one or both devices. The underlying layers of DASH7 technology follow the globally implemented ISO 18000-7 standard. DASH7 can be used with a variety of devices, from stand-alone DASH7 “tags” that monitor goods flowing through an electronic company’s worldwide supply chain from China to Texas, to mobile phones that allow consumers to monitor the energy usage in their own home. The possibilities are endless, and DASH7 is sure to take the complexities out of today’s increasingly sophisticated “machine-to-machine” wireless landscape and make them simpler to use.

(source: Dash7 Technology)

The WideTag Social Energy Meter allows the realtime monitoring, and collaborative management, of energy usage in households, and businesses, through an innovative suite of hardware and software platforms.

(disclaimer: I’m involved with WideTag Inc )

A linchpin, as Seth describes it, is somebody in an organization who is indispensable, who cannot be replaced—her role is just far too unique and valuable. And then he goes on to say, well, seriously folks, you need to be one of these people, you really do. To not be one is economic and career suicide.

And, can you become a Linchpin?

Following this “simple” recipe you can change your vision, your life

1. Connect
2. Be generous
3. Make art
4. Acknowledge the lizard
5. Ship
6. Fail
7. Learn

CONNECT

Social media is either a time-wasting, wool-gathering, yak-shaving waste of effort or, perhaps, just maybe, it’s a crack in the wall between you and the rest of the world. It’s a choice… up to you.

BE GENEROUS

The generosity economy rewards people who create and participate in circles of gifts. Not the direct I-gave-you-this-you-give-me-that giving and get of a traditional economy, but instead the tribal economy of individuals supporting one another.

MAKE ART

Art isn’t a painting or even a poem, it’s something that any of us can do. If you interact with others, you have the platform to create something new—something that changes everything. I call that art.

ACKNOWLEDGE THE LIZARD

And so, we acknowledge it. We stand up and we hear the voice of the lizard brain and we recognize that it’s there and then we walk to the podium and do the work. We acknowledge the lizard so we can ignore it.

SHIP

If you can get something out the door while your competitors cringe in fear, you win.

FAIL

The reinvention of the marketplace demands that one have the ability to fail, often and with grace—and in public!

LEARN

The opportunity of our time is to discard what you think you know and instead learn what you need to learn. Every single day.

(source: BrainWashed – Seth Godin )

Seth Godin live seminar for good causes 10/09 from Seth Godin on Vimeo.

Watch this video of Robin Dunbar and you’ll find, maybe, the answer.

In occasione di questa giornata Marco Massarotto lancia un meme e pone alla twitter-sfera la domanda “Perchè dobbiamo difendere la rete?”.

Questo è il mio piccolo contributo:

Perchè lo sviluppo economico e sociale della nazione dipende dall’accessibilità e pervasività della sua infrastruttura tecnologica

Questa è la tag cloud con tutti i tweets raccolti sino alle 23 del 10 marzo.

PDF con la tag cloud

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The touchscreen interface seems better suited to sweeping gestures than tapping ones, although programs like Bebot have implemented clever workarounds.

But with Apple opening up the iPhone’s dock connector to third parties, I wonder: Couldn’t a manufacturer develop a hardware music keyboard with an intelligent docking station? You’d slot in your iPhone and get a high-res screen, tactile controls, and all kinds of sound-making capabilities.

(source: A hardware Music Keyboard for the iPhone – O’Reilly – David Battino )

So, it’s seems that the iPhone will be a platform for an huge different field: as a mobile self-payment system, or as chemical detector and as a RFID tag reader.

According to a number of believable blog reports, RFID is set to be a part of the as yet unannounced iPhone 4G. Apple holds a patent for a touch screen RFID tag reader and is said to be testing an RFID-enabled iPhone currently. So RFID could be a feature of the iPhone 4G as soon as Spring 2010.

(source: ReadWriteWeb – iPhone as RFID Tag & Reader: Coming Soon)

iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

The thing I probably repeat most is this recipe for a startup: get a version 1 out fast, then improve it based on users’ reactions.

Startups can die from releasing something full of bugs, and not fixing them fast enough, but I don’t know of any that died from releasing something stable but minimal very early, then promptly improving it.

(source: The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn)