More Wearable Computer fashion … from e-Holster …
This is a cool site that is offering some new fashion for the fringe crowd that is into wearing their electronics. Of course in the coming years these guys are going to be bought, or put out of business, as the big fashion and clothing vendors jump in and begin to address the needs of the electronic consumer …
Amazing vision! An Identity Management solution that is well thought out …
This is a very cool find … it appears that Mr. McCandless was working on the same ideas at the same time as our team at Novell! When we were working on digitalme we realized that identity was something that had to be collected in a “Personal Directory” (e.g. Novell’s Personal Directory – Leading Edge Downloads #138) to be an effective solution. Although Novell has not done anything with this since, we now have a new project that will demo in January. We will be releasing our “FreeID” agent as a tool for automating the collection, distribution, and coordination of identity information.
I’ll have to get in touch with Mr. McCandless to see what he thinks!
Nice Jabber IM Programmers Overview …
Jabber is a open source solution for Presence and Instant Messaging. I am still a big fan of Jabber … I believe that it is still looking for some big visibility, and I’m thinking that it will get this through a killer-app that will support Jabber. Here is a good start for developers to write support for Jabber into their code.
Jens Alfke: Jabber Client Developer’s Cheat Sheet. [Scripting News]
More articles on the 802.11b “parasitic grid” conversation …
Althought many people (like the cell phone companies) don’t like the concept, and many people (like the creators/users) don’t like the name, the result will end up being the same. We are going to see the development of a global wireless solution created by the users … and our organization is working to contribute to this. 80211.net is one of our “fun” projects that is slowly making progress … 😉
O’Reilly Networks’s Rob Flickenger and Dave Sims discuss the parasitic grid: nice discussion between two clued-in folks.
Users reject notion of parasitic grid: although InfoWorld didn’t publish any of the many letters I was cc’d on about a column that appared in its pages a few weeks ago about free wireless networks, it did run this odd article. (My take on the initial issue is here.)
Very cool declaration for Cyberspace …
I have to admit that I am a fan of John Perry Barlow after hearing him speak at conferences a couple of times. This is a very good beginning of a new declaration … describing new times.
We have all been living through a “survival of the fittest” community/government era, and the Internet now begins to transcend the physical limits of these battles. The the Internet creates a whole new substrate … a new medium … for societal and cultural development.
This is a very good beginning …
New antenna designs …
For wearable and mobile computing to take place, in my opinion, there will have to be some real transitions in how we think about wireless communciations. I do not believe that we will have one type of wireless, but several. So technologies which contribute to these architectures will continue to show up. Here is a company that is developing new antenna designs that allow a single antenna to be used for multiple wireless solutions at the same time. Cool stuff …
The storage of Memes …
We are reaching the point of being able to witness the storage of objects in the brain … this is a very cool article!