Timo Arnall

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Timo Arnall is a designer working with interactive products and media. Timo leads an international research project on mobile technology, collaborates on interaction design work and lectures in design, physical computing and design methodology. More...

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  1. Our Data, Ourselves
     "What happens to our data happens to ourselves."
  2. Value quadrants
     One framework. "Value Quadrants maps value creation and revenue model changes by asking when and where is value being created."
  3. Machina Dynamica Intelligent Box
     Pure experience hooks: "So the laser is fired briefly by pushing the button. Light and thus photons are emitted and hit the dots on the credit card through the black acrylic above the laser."
  4. NFC implementation costs
     "Implementing the same NFC functionality as a custom IP block on a Bluetooth chipset typically adds much less than US$1.00 per unit (and only a few tens of cents in sufficient volumes), requires only 6–8 connector pins (including test pins)...
  5. qr5 | quietrevolution
     "The quietrevolution (QR) was designed in response to increasing demand for wind turbines that work well in the urban environment, where wind speeds are lower and wind directions change frequently."
  6. “Path intelligence,” indeed
     "What we might call a “security through obscurity” strategy - is not a sustainable way of doing things. If anything, from what I’m told, it gets easier to extract individual records the more data you have."
  7. History of in-game advertising
     "This first installment deals with the early years of advergames. The next one will be about brands and arcades."
  8. Attacking noise in chat
     "And, of course, for discussion of the concept of #meta-discussion people had to go to #meta-meta-discussion, and for chat about how silly that whole idea was, we created #meta-meta-meta-discussion..."
  9. Software above the level of a single device
     "Rather than building complex configuration menus into the device itself, you manage the data channels that will be streamed to the device in a separate application, with a much bigger screen and a keyboard for input."
  10. The Eye-Fi card dissected
      What we want to know.
  11. Eye-Fi Explore product page
      I'm guessing the card records a list of Wifi spots+signal strength, then waits for a connection to the cloud for lat/long "Eye-Fi Explore also automatically adds geographic location labels to your photos..."
  12. Eye-fi Explore press release
      "Through a partnership with Skyhook Wireless, the Eye-Fi Explore will allow users to map where their photos were captured. The card uses built-in wireless technology to locate nearby Wi-Fi access points when pictures are captured."
  13. The money's in the Long Tail
      "As they struggle to target ads based on the faint signals of consumer behavior in a generic social network, the smart money is going to the niche sites, where laser-focused content and community makes targeting easy." Via Dan Hill.
  14. 220,000 social networks
      "The big and small ways folks are using private social networks for families, weddings, teams, friends organizing a trip, youth groups, and every other conceivable way a posse may want to organize."
  15. Gandhi on Ubicomp
      "Those practical ubicompers like Paulos, Goodman, and Bleecker have only had affordable easy-to-program embedded hardware and open mobile handsets for a few years."

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