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Google Buzz adoption in Amsterdam

Bas Bisseling | 13 February 2010, 10:45 pm | 6 comments | tags: , ,

iPhone BuzzAmsterdam is picking up the new Google Buzz social networking tool that was announced last week. Google has linked Buzz to Latitude as well (depending on the privacy settings). This means that people can see where their friends and what they’re doing. It’s interesting that not only your friends are visible, but all Buzz users nearby. This opens a…

digitally distributed newspapers

Bas Bisseling | 13 February 2010, 10:33 pm | 9 comments | tags: , ,

e-paper
LG Digital has announced that a full A3 sized e-paper that will be introduced in April. The novelty in LG’s latest marvel, is that it makes the physical distribution and the every day hustle of printing millions of newspapers obsolete. The Gutenberg era of mechanical reproduction is changing into digital reproduction. The smell of ink and the…

join Hap-poken-ing020 next weekend!

Bas Bisseling | 02 May 2009, 6:03 pm

Hi everyone!

Hap-poken-ing020 is happening next Saturday (May 9th) at 13:00hr. I hope you all will be there! Still haven’t subscribed yet? please, go to here and sign-up. If you want to bring any friends, but they haven’t got a Poken yet, no problem… I have 50 Poken’s to give away for free! So, you friends…

Peer pressure

Bas Bisseling | 18 April 2009, 8:44 pm | 5 comments

“When Napster told the district court that it had developed a technology to block the transfer of 99.4 percent of identified infringing material, the district court told counsel for Napster 99.4 percent was not good enough. Napster had to push the infringements ‘down to zero’. If 99.4 percent is not good enough, then this is a war on file-sharing technologies,…

Concept: using Twitter as a flow regulator

Bas Bisseling | 03 April 2009, 7:27 pm | 3 comments | tags:

This scenario will illustrate the possibilities of social media like twitter to have a positive and substantial influence on ordinary life. In this case, the “flow regulator tweet” will very efficiently regulate the flow of people waiting in line and therefor Twitter could make waiting obsolete.

Join Hap-poken-ing020!

Bas Bisseling | 29 March 2009, 12:58 pm | 5 comments

Subscribe and join this Happening

This year, for the first time, the Digital Hippies will initiate a Happening. What is the plan? ‘Hap-poken-ing020′ is set to be a spectacular and spontaneous event that will harmlessly disturb the public domain of Amsterdam’s Dam square. It’s interesting to (1) mobilize people, to (2) bring New Media to the attention and to (3) connect to interesting…

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, still room for innovation though…

Bas Bisseling | 17 March 2009, 10:54 pm

After the introduction of the iPhone, Apple’s main focus is pointed towards its software. But, their is still room for innovation on its hardware. The virtual keyboard as a concept is really innovative and intuitive, but tapping my fingers on a hard surface isn’t, it’s a brutal business. My fingertips are already forming some hard skin, which in some time…

IWAGU

Bas Bisseling | 06 March 2009, 5:48 pm

IWAGU is pronounced as: ‘I Wag You’ and stands for Identification by Webcam And Gesture Utilization. Not to be confused with ‘I kill you’. Lawrence Lessig mentions in his ‘Code V2′ the ‘architectures of identification’. He (Lessig 2006 p.42) states that we constantly are negotiating processes of authentication in real life, and in this process, better technologies and better credentials…

Learning from Hardware: ‘imaging’ this…

Bas Bisseling | 26 February 2009, 7:15 pm

Studying I just stumbled upon this definition:

“An image (from Latin imago) is an artifact, usually two-dimensional (a picture), that has a similar appearance to some subject, usually a physical object or a person.” (wikipedia)

and it triggered this analogy…

A decline in P2P-sharing

Bas Bisseling | 20 February 2009, 2:56 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

I just read an article on Tweakers that Ipoque, a German company that sells ‘deep packet inspection-hardware’, has published a study on the distribution of protocol classes. This chart is a representation of their findings.