I am still thinking about a discussion I had with John Seely Brown last week. I was emphasizing the role of events and experience in emerging computational paradigms. And he asked a very interesting question: Is this somehow related to…
Phone as modern Swiss Army Knife
NYT has an article that shows how phones are the modern equivalent of the Swiss army knife. In their new incarnation, cellphones become a sort of digital remote control, as one CBS executive put it. With a wave, the phone…
EventWeb 17: Bliki
Two important publishing concepts that became very popular in the last few years have been blogs and wikis. Blogs brought journalism to masses. Blogs allowed people to express their opinions and share their experiences with masses. The editorial structure of…
Piracy protection using Content (Video) recognition
NYT has a story that talks about detecting even degraded quality of video and audio in the clips posted illegally at different sites on the web. The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted…
Progress in Immersive Sports
NBA is taking an important step in immersive sports at this year’s all star games. See the story at News.com. The games and exhibition events will be shot with an array of five, double-lensed cameras developed by Pace Technologies, a…