I am looking forward to this year’s ACM Multimedia conference in Singapore. I am leaving tomorrow morning and will be back on Saturday. It will be interesting to see how much progress has been made in emphasizing ‘multi’ in multimedia.…
Going to ACM Multimedia 2005
Esther Dyson and When2.0
Yesterday I had a very exciting discussion with Esther Dyson about the role of time and events in computing and in emerging applications. Time has been implicit in many computing applications. Now time has come to make time explicit and…
Events on Yahoo
A friend (Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan) sent me a link to new feature on Yahoo. This is beginning of ‘big guys’ getting into events. Obviously the current version is designed to emphasize their maps, but it is a matter of time when…
Events are not just scribbles in Calendars
It is very easy to get an impression that events are nothing more than scribbles in calendars. At least that is the impression one gets when looking at sites that are supposedly related to events on the Web. Sites like…
When2.0
If people can talk about Web2.0 and Where2.0, then why not When2.0? When is definitely important. Time is arguably the most valuable resource we have. We can produce everything else, well almost everything, but can not produce extra time. Since…