Irene Schwarting's blog

Is Cloud Computing Web 3.0?

Just saw an interesting thread on the evolution / creation of Web 3.0 Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center. I think he hits on some interesting enabling technologies, but I don’t draw the same conclusions he does about the significance and nature of what those technologies will enable.

What makes for good ads?

Google announced last week that that their mobile ads are now MMA compliant. At GoLife we, too, have been working carefully to ensure that our advertisements are all compliant with the MMA standards. I see an issue, though, with mobile advertising, which can’t really be addressed by any standards body, no matter how carefully and thoroughly specified.

Why (digital) Me?

Jeff Pulver posted last week on “Life 3.0”, and the “Digital Me”. I think that his post hits squarely on one of the most interesting phenomena of the 21st century: the need for a “digital representation” of the person. But I think that Jeff has missed one of the key aspects of this phenomenon: the mobile angle and its fundamental ramifications for the relationship between people and technology.

Syndicate content