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PARC is the Palo Alto Research Center which is one of the world’s most famous R&D labs (ethernet, object oriented printing, guis, and much more were invented here). In this five-part tour you’ll see what these smart people are working on now. Steve Jobs, famously, in the early 1980s, visited this lab and bought the … Continue reading “The PARC tour of 2013 (printed circuits, better batteries, contextual systems, and more)”

This is the year of increased productivity, particularly on mobile. Just a week ago we saw the highly-hyped launch of Mailbox. That is a really nice email replacement app that’s a lot nicer than Apple’s own email app. (I can’t use it because it doesn’t support Gmail’s labels, which I use extensively, but other than … Continue reading “Siri's contextual sister, Tempo, blows away Apple's iPhone calendar”

It’s been a week now since the Consumer Electronics Show closed. I wanted to take that time to read all the reports and get rid of any overhype I picked up because of all those big screens that I saw. Really the story was sensors. Whether video sensors on glasses, heart rate sensors on watches, … Continue reading “The Contextual, Sensual CES2013”

Rocky Barbanica and I visited Facebook’s headquarters today and interviewed a bunch of people for the book “Age of Context” that I’m writing with Shel Israel. What’s the age of context? Five radically expanding technologies/data types. 1. Sensors. 2. Wearable computing. 3. Big Databases. 4. Social network behavior. 5. Location. What will that bring for … Continue reading “The contextual and exponential future of Facebook”

eBay sells billions of dollars of things on mobile. Cars. Boats. Jewelry. Clothes. Gadgets. And more. Here Steve Yankovich, VP of mobile and platform at eBay, tells me how eBay is competing with Amazon. What the trends on mobile are. eBay’s new eBay Now app lets you have things delivered from stores in San Francisco … Continue reading “eBay talks about a contextual future for its mobile efforts; update on our book "Age of Context"”

How does Silicon Valley and Apple miss Steve Jobs? Well, on Monday night I was having dinner with Gary Morgenthaler, who was one of the investors in Siri, along with a few Siri team members and I heard stories that they weren’t able to tell me while Steve Jobs was alive. For instance, Jobs called … Continue reading “Steve Jobs legacy: he personally brought Siri to Apple, saw that Siri had a contextual future”

  There are lots of TV guides on iPads, including a pretty good one from TV Guide itself. But the TV Guide one isn’t personalized like Next Guide is. It’s also not as beautiful. Here I meet with Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Dijit, which today is launching this new personalized TV guide. This hooks up … Continue reading “An awesome contextual app for iPad and social software arrives: NextGuide, future of TV Guides”