Public pre-print version of the article from Mike's blog HERE!

"The user experience design of most everyday ubiquitous computing
devices—things you see in gadget blogs—is typically terrible. That’s
because we do not address ubicomp user experience design as a distinct
branch of interaction design, much as we did not treat interaction
design as separate from visual design in the early days of the Web.

Watch the video of Jan Chipchase speaking at LIFT Asia, Seoul HERE

"He details nine trends he thinks will shape the future of social interactions, trends he identified through the extensive field work he and his team are conducting around the world. Jan's work shows how the digital devices are creating new practices and usages by becoming smaller and smaller, opening up a new design space for the mobile industry" 

"Adrian Chan, social media expert and social interaction theorist at Gravity7, makes a nice attempt at setting out a new model for social interaction design"

HERE!

CNN explores the Internet of Things: HERE

Full text HERE

Abstract: 

"Humans are social
animals, spinning intricate webs of relationships with friends,
colleagues, neighbours and enemies. These networks have always been
with us, but the advance of networking technologies, changes to our
interconnected economy and an altering job market
have super-charged the power of networking, catapulting it to the heart
of organisational thinking.

"Kazys Varnelis, director of Columbia University's Network Architecture Lab, has written a very nice essay for Vodafone's receiver magazine that explores how mediated communicaton has changed our notion of place, created non-places and now has us darting between simultaneous environments"

-Putting People First

READ HERE!

READ HERE

What are the trends in the business of games? What did the panel at Mindtrek's "Business of playing together" track have to say about virtual vs. real and the government of virtual worlds?

Read more at Jussi Laakkonen's blog on the death of PC single player games and the opportunities is social and casual games: http://bit.ly/2kNvrc

Read more about the panel discussion:  http://bit.ly/3dRtpG

Sanastokeskus TSK and the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority are going to hold press conferences (announcement meetings) about the Future Internet Terminology Project on October 8th, one in Helsinki and another one in the MindTrek Conference, Tampere (aimed at conference participants).

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Greetings from Picnic, a crossmediaweek that took place last week in Amsterdam!
The third Picnic was dedicated to the collaborative creativity, popular theme in today's content industry.
First day's keynote was We think: the power of mass creativity, by Charles Leadbeater. Leadbeater referred to the Youtube cineasts and carage Kubricks as pebble throwers. These pebbles create only small ripples on the media surfaces but they have a growing importance in numbers. A big pile of pebbles can mount up to a large boulder.

As part of the MindTrek Party (of the MindTrek Conference) Greenpeace provides Climate Change Mobile Experience. In the party you can be part of the climate solution by joining the Energy [R]evolution. You will learn more about the climate change by meeting Greenpeace representatives and using your mobile.

The MindTrek Party is on October 8th, starting at 9pm in Yo-talo, Tampere. More about the MindTrek Conference, Competition, and the MindTrek Startup Launchpad: http://www.mindtrek.org/conference

The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

• Opening up Education index -pages
• pdf-version of the book

Exciting new possibilities offered by RSS enablement may lead to

See the following article:

"Shuttleworth: open-source desktops need a facelift" 

Nokia Ubimedia Awards deadline Friday 12.9. Other MindTrek awards and MindTrek Startup Launchpad deadlines extended.

NLab
is a lab developed by the Faculty of the Humanities of De Montfort University
in Leicester, UK to connect creative businesses with writers and generate
pioneering partnerships.

From today, on the main page, all the articles that come from blogs outside Sombiz.net, will have their own titles linked to the original articles. We made this change to give to your blog better visibility: the content is yours, we want just to show it and share it.

That's also the reason why, the main page will show an introduction of the articles a bit longer then before.

Hope this will be useful for you and your blogs. Suggestions and comment are always welcome!

The Communication Management Association (CMA) in the UK is organising a 1 day event called "Communication 2.0" with much ado about social networking, wikis, blogs, web 2.0 etc!

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