Today I will give a presentation on the future of mobile at “De Haagse School“.
I will present for a group of Human Technology students.
I tried to look beyond the obvious role of context. I ended up in a world where media and life are delivering ONE integrated experience.
As you see chapter 3 is still not finished.. Atleast that is how it feels for me.. What should be added?
It explains the difference between PC internet and mobile internet very well and helps you understand how contextual services will be beneficial for individuals and cooperation’s. Great to see others get on this “physical world interfacing” & “contextual services” bandwagon and explain it so well. We’re defining a whole new business category!
Love the design of the presentation too, you glide on through the 128 slides with ease, get the message and only slightly miss the voice over.
Patrick J. Gyger is the director of the Science Fiction museum in Switzerland (”Maison d’Ailleurs is located in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It owns over 60,000 books and thousands of pulp magazines, as well as many other items related to science fiction and its imagery”). He did a great overview of futuristic graphical and images material from the past. And had some intriguing insights.
Last week I gave a presentation at the MWG Congress in The Netherlands. The topic of the event was Experimentation. Personally I don’t believe in experimentation. In this incredible dynamic market, where there is no status quo anymore, one needs to have clear intentions.. During my presentation I used the metaphor of trying to lift one’s leg.. I asked the audience to try to lift their left leg.. Everybody reacted by lifting there leg.. I explained that they raised there leg and did not TRY to raise their leg.
Trying is nothing. You either do or you don’t!
Below you see the presentation and an interview(in dutch) by Ronnie Overgoor touching the topics of the presentation.
Here is the Press Release of the new venture we are launching today at Mobile Sunday for the Mobile World Congres:
Zcapes will Defeat Internet Search Engines for Situational Content
Zcapes is a mini blog platform for the mobile phone. What you can’t find in a main search engine you will find with Zcapes. Zcapes taps into the live web by providing smart filters and situational content for any situation. Anyone can make a Zcape for any object or event. Zcapes makes sure you won’t miss a thing.
Barcelona, February 15th 2009. Today is the launch of Zcapes, which aims to be a better information service for the mobile phone then an Internet search engine. With more and more people using the mobile web, Zcapes will make sure they won’t miss a thing. With Zcapes people have the ability to explore what is going on right now for their specific situation. Zcapes pages are easy to find and use with mobile phones at m.zcapes.com. Zcapes are free and can be made by anyone and everyone with the Zcapes Builder at www.zcapes.com.
Founder Raimo van der Klein:
“There is no mobile search engine where you are able to find good results for ‘Shopping in Amsterdam right now’, let alone a service that has any inclination of my context. Zcapes fills this gap of context relevant and situational content. Zcapes will contain this information by helping people create it and provide it to others.”
The service on a mobile phone
The mobile address for Zcapes is m.zcapes.com. Relevant Zcapes can be found by searching by keyword, category or location. A Zcapes page contains an image, text box for basic information, and message boxes for communication between users. RSS, Flickr and Twitter feeds on relevant keywords to filter the live web are also available. A poll feature can be added as well as an RSVP service when there is a specific event to which people can be invited. Zcapes are conveniently formatted so they’re easily viewable on a mobile phone.
Registration is required to publish messages and link to the location service Fire Eagle. Knowing where you are helps Zcapes to provide more accurate location based information.
The Zcapes Builder
Using a desktop or laptop, Zcapes pages can be built at www.zcapes.com. Registration is required to perform this function. The Zcape name and address is determined here as well as the tags and the category. The specific feeds and features can be selected by an intuitive and drop and drag interface. When the Zcape is completed, it can be published and announced to friends via the Twitter announce service or an email invitation.
About Zcapes
Zcapes is founded by Raimo van der Klein, Claire Boonstra and Maarten Lens-FitzGerald. Together they run the strategic creative consultancy SPRXmobile. At SPRXmobile they architect mobile services for companies ready to take the step into mobile. Their specialization is developing services around the personal context of people and adding value to specific situations.
All three are experienced mobile service architects. Raimo started over 8 years ago at Nokia and founded Mobile Monday Amsterdam together with Maarten. Claire was one of the original team members for the iMode launch in the Netherlands.
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Contact details
For Further information contact:
Maarten Lens-FitzGerald
maarten [at sign] zcapes.com
+31 646333308
Explore Zcapes at m.zcapes.com on your mobile phone
Build Zcapes at www.zcapes.com on your PC
Screen Shots (click for source)
Our friend Jim Stolze was at TED this year in Long Beach. Not only to attend but also to present the results of his Virtual Happiness Research. Here is the presentation and transcript of his 6 minute talk (yes, short and quick!). And 5 tips to make you happier.
Thats what Timo Arnall says in this presentation about persuasive computing. Go thru the presentation and read the notes. It makes you think.
Watch the Android Develeopment Camp Amsterdam live recorded stream here. It was a great event, full, inspiring and great networking.
Hear people from Wikitude (at 00:16 and my Fav), PicSsay (at 00:45), Twitli (at @00:57) and ShopSavvy (at 1:27) talk about their apps. Its one big stream, quality is not high but doable. Please skip me set the stream up in the first 10 minutes of the video…
SPRX initiative, organized together with:
Peter Robinett - @pr1001 - http://www.bubblefoundry.com/
Yuri van Geest - @vangeest - http://yuri.typepad.com/
Martijn Pannevis - @panman - http://martijnpannevis.nl/
Maarten den Braber - @mdbraber - http://maartendenbraber.com/
And thanks to MoMo Amsterdam, T-mobile and Google.
I just saw and heard the presentation by Daniel Suarez called “Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality” over at Fora.TV. I was impressed. What put me to this were the repeated recommendations from Jyri Engeström.
Watch it now here or download it (via free registration) and watch, listen or read it later (or order the book). Its an hour and definitely worth it.
Bots are automated/autonomous programs that do things. And their power and their numbers are growing. Growing a lot. This combines to an intelligence like system enabled by ubiquitous connectivity and computation which in turn leads to paths like Kevin Kelly’s machine (article) and Kurzweils singularity. How this will be in detail we can not see, yet the direction is clear. But that is the far future.
A bit closer is what we can do now. Now, today, the Project VRM is developing projects to make their vision happen. A vision of a set of tools, technologies and services that help individuals go to market and manage relationships with vendors. And, in turn, vendors who align themselves to these tools, technologies and services will have the opportunity to build better relationships with their customers.
Projects like the Mine or even Dataportability and OpenID which are ‘outside’ of Project VRM are working towards making the VRM vision happen. These are the tools in development in order to make a VRM world. And these tools, these protocols enable us to ‘talk’ VRM. To build our conversation between individuals and vendors.
The trick is how to cope with the ever complexifing world. As you experience the overload of email and tweets every day this will also happen with a VRM situation full of requests, feeds and api links enabling VRM. So how do we cope? I see that bots will be the answer.
Bots that know where we are, how we feel and what we do, that now our context and manage our incoming and out going conversation, that manage our reputation and ping us humans when needed. They do it already in World of War craft as Suarez tells us (select chapter 7: The Sophistication of Game Bots). In your email you have started already by making filters, the next step is that you make a Yahoo pipe or a Apple script to help you cope. And SPRX is doing its bit by developing Zcapes which will know your context and help you use your shared situation.
Today the tools, protocols and rules of VRM are being developed. Tomorrow the VRM conversation will start and lots of the talking will not done by ourselves, it will be done by Bots. The VRM Future will be Mediated by Bots.
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