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Anonymous in a room of friends

"Wait wait, say that again." "Hey, how's it going?" I repeated, trying not to sound unnatural. "Ahhh, You're QT1p!" "You got it ." I stood in the corner of the room and took in the surreal scene. There were about ten of us and we were just arriving for...

Published 11-12-2007 10:16 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Thoughts on Anonymous Cowards

I haven't posted to the blog for a while and I can't say it's because I've been too busy. I had a pretty terrible social technology experience recently. It left me feeling overexposed so I just had to walk away for a while. Here's the short version of...

Published 08-10-2007 5:14 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Sharing our lives in little pieces

I was just thinking about how many technologies we have for sharing bits and pieces of our lives online, what it all means and where it might be headed. Just off the top of my head, here's a short list of them. Blogs , of course, are used as a chronological...

Published 06-25-2007 10:47 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Comments aren't working

Updated: Comments are working again. Post away! Comments don't seem to be working on this blog right now, so my apologies to those who have tried to submit them in the past few weeks. I know a blog with without comments sort of defeats the purpose of...

Published 06-25-2007 5:55 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Mobile web sites get no respect

A friend of mine describes his life as a firefighter as " hours of boredom interrupted by a few seconds of terror ". That's what my life is like, minus the terror :). I find myself in situations where I'm waiting for something or someone and the only...

Published 06-06-2007 11:19 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Facebook's most popular apps so far

The horses are out of the gate. so to speak, and we have a report on the most popular applications being used on Facebook, as enabled by Facebook's new platform technology. Steve O'Hear of ZDNet has a post about the five most popular applications . iLike...

Published 05-29-2007 8:52 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Facebook Platform: Social OS or unwanted clutter?

Big news from Facebook yesterday at F8, their large press and developer conference. They announced the official launch of Facebook Platform, which enables third-party developers to create applications that run on the Facebook network. Users will be able...

Published 05-25-2007 8:37 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Conversa: Mobile video conversations [video]

I'm giving you access to a state-of-the-art video streaming technology that enables playback and recording to and from a 3G mobile phone. Think of something interesting that uses this technology and have it ready to demo at a wireless conference in six...

Published 05-21-2007 11:47 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Guitar Hero, Wii and social gaming

I had lunch with a couple of friends this week who both were raving about the newly released Guitar Hero II game for the Xbox 360. This really had my attention because these guys are pretty seasoned first-person shooter gamers and they almost apologetically...

Published 05-18-2007 12:02 AM by Alex Vorbau

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Should innovation be bottom-up or top-down?

Continuing on the topic of the Pew Study that categorizes Americans by their technology use... I've been thinking. Should we be tailoring technology for the "lacklusters" or for the "technical elites"? Maybe you think I'm flip-flopping because of my earlier...

Published 05-07-2007 11:42 PM by Alex Vorbau

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What type of Technology Elite are you?

Have you heard about the Pew Internet study? I haven't read the full report but the overview published by the newswires is interesting and it definitely has me thinking about how to create technology that meets the needs for various types of Internet...

Published 05-07-2007 10:43 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Writing from CHI2007 this week

Today was the first day of CHI 2007 , the Computer Human Interaction conference in San Jose. CHI's reputation is very good and it is attended by the best in the business and academia, including researchers from Google, Yahoo, PARC , HP, Microsoft, and...

Published 05-01-2007 4:47 AM by Alex Vorbau

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Some jobs are really dangerous [video]

One night at TechCon, they loaded all 700 of us onto a caravan of buses and drove us into the Texan countryside. The buses stopped next to a small rodeo arena with a wooden stadium on one side and an announcer's platform straddled by bull pens on the...

Published 05-01-2007 4:21 AM by Alex Vorbau

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TechCon, a different sort of conference

Last week I was in San Antonio, Texas for HP TechCon. TechCon is a unique conference. There are conferences in academia and industry in every field that are prestigious and therefore difficult to get a paper into. These other conferences are competitive...

Published 04-30-2007 11:42 PM by Alex Vorbau

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Time flies when you're changing the world

Hi I'm still here. Just wrapping up a week of furious coding. So not much else got done including blog posts. I've been writing a client for Windows Mobile phones for our project called Conversa and I was trying to finish it in time for the HP TechCon...

Published 04-27-2007 10:57 PM by Alex Vorbau

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