Now this is interesting. Imagine devices throughout a home or work place that recognize who you are and present what you saw last, or your preferences, or that you have one new message. This article talks about how family members could share a tablet, I actually see it the other way, many “tablets” throughout the home or work place, embedded, that recognize you, they leverage your cloud computing and the fact that you are no longer tied to that one computer and they present your display preferences to you wherever you might be. Now that is interesting. I walk into the kitchen, the tablet on the cabinet door presents my favorite news articles, music, photo’s and switches to my skype profile. I leave and it goes back to the default. Wow that would be fun.
“for the gadget to automatically recognize individuals via a built-in camera”
via Apple Sees New Money in Old Media – WSJ.com.
Interesting discussions yesterday.
The scourge of “busy” versus “important” and the plague of “that’s the way we have always done it” have reared their ugly heads.
Outcome, not quantity is what matters.
Test everything daily, where suspect, change, re-engineer, rip it up. Nothing is sacrosanct.
The world is ripe with so many possibilities. It is a shame to waste precious time chasing your tail, doing something just because that is the way you have always done it and worst yet, feeling satisfied with what you do just because how busy your are.
How much longer should we keep standing on our head to support IE?
“Google’s Chrome overtook Apple’s Safari to become the world's third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut, a Web metrics company said Friday.
Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, lost almost a full percentage point in December, the latest slip in a decline that accelerated during the second half of 2009.”
via Google’s Chrome grabs No. 3 browser spot from Safari | Applications – InfoWorld.
