12 Jan 2011
Ulla-Maaria Engeström
For the past five years, I’ve been exploring social and business models around objects. Objects - the people, places and things in our lives - each have stories. Things around us can tell us many things from informational and historical standpoints. And the hundreds of billions of online images offer an exciting new platform for discovery. In 2006, I got fascinated about the idea of being able to “right-click” everyday objects, which would reveal their true nature — how old are they, who made them, and who takes care of them. I sat down with Adam Greenfield, formerly Nokia’s head of design direction for user interface and services, to explore the provenance of objects. In 2008 I founded a company, Thinglink, to develop tools for social connection around objects and long-tail markets. By that point it was clear that objects are, in fact, becoming points of navigation. Now in 2011, objects are clickable. The first stage of this “object navigation” is interactive images. In-image tagging technology is being used to link objects in your images to anywhere on the Internet. The second stage of object navigation focuses on physical objects as channels for information. With the emergence of object navigation, the ways we use the Internet will radically change for the better.Images as platforms and objects as channels
4 Dec 2010
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10 Nov 2010
MAX TEGMARK
Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology
We’re Not Insignificant After All
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2007 — Page 7
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