Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
I tried to watch the Apple launch with my Purdue Polytech students to show them how to introduce a product with a livcast… What we got out of the experience was how not to sell a product with an online livecast. First off,…
Why I will not buy another Android phone anytime soon… The opinion of this programmer is worth his weight in gold.
“It’s staggering to contemplate how much the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs understood about modern America that those who govern it still don’t.” Steve Jobs was a master at simultaneously goading our sense of individuality and fueling our yearning for community (a topic…
Are you in front of an information booth, at the mall? Do you want to do a Google search without a keyboard? The Google voice gizmo by Breakfast, an open source hardware project, has something for you. The device uses Arduino boards…
Sherry Turkle Image via Wikipedia Sherry Turkle’s latest book on identity shifts in the Internet age takes a more pessimistic view on the role of technology in re-shaping our daily lives… In Turkle’s latest book, “Alone Together,” this optimism is long gone.…
Image via Wikipedia And make money in the process. The Atlantic Monthly has succeeded in this arduous task by injecting itself with a good dose of start-up mentality. The Atlantic, the intellectual’s monthly that always seemed more comfortable as an academic exercise…
My bet is that the iPhone will win this fight… Back in March, I wrote about the increasingly personal fight between Steven P. Jobs, the Apple chief executive, and Eric E. Schmidt, his Google counterpart. In it, I quoted Mr. Jobs saying:…
Cell phones may seem like a distraction when reading, but our latest project, Ubimark books, can now be paired with novels to link readers to digital resources to create ubitour books. Books open our minds, and now we can use technology to…
The iPad launch video clip A roundup of Apple iPad reviewes The New York Times gave it ample space, asking however some pointed questions: Mr. Jobs, a consummate showman, presented the iPad to an enthusiastic crowd of around 800 employees, business partners…
David Pogue, the technology columnist/blogger for New York Times believes that the announced Apple tablet, the so called iSlate, will contain at least one element of surprise and will not be just a tablet. Or so we can hope. But my gut…
When we launched Visible Past a few years ago, there was very low interest in geographic wiki applications. Geo wikis are editable sites that interact with mapping services. (For details, see the Read Write Web covergage of our Visible Past Virtual Omaha…
Image via Wikipedia Business Week takes a critical look at augmented reality applications, pointing the fact that they are as good as the ability of your mobile device to place you very precisely. Related articles by Zemanta Nokia’s Vision of the Future:…
Apple grapples with the competition. Was Zittrain right or wrong? When Apple opened the App Store, it provided the building blocks so independent programmers could create software that worked on its phone. But the company said it would vet submissions to maintain…