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The world is changing, sometimes more rapidly than we can manage. Keeping on top of things and keeping up with things, while staying on course is challenging, and sometimes daunting. This blog explores a way through the confusion.
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Live in The Future! It's Starting Now. How the world is changing, and how to deal with it.

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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 10M ago

Who Owns Your Social Graph?

There’s a story on this issue on GigaOm, which is worth reading for context. I don’t think Facebook owns my friends. Do you think they own yours? If you think Facebook should re-enable the “Facebook Friends Exporter” extension, or—better still—simply allow people to use their own contacts as they pl
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

NEWSFLASH: World Doesn’t End For Another Ten Days!

With all of my friends laughing it up over the failure of the much-anticipated apocalypse to appear yesterday, I was rereading some of the stuff on Camping’s (various) predictions, and I came across his statement that, “From April 1, 33 to April 1, 2011 is 1978 years”. But it isn’t: it’s 1978 years
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

Motivation

Alfred Hitchcock was directing a film once when a member of the cast, a “Method actor”, came running up to him, waving a script. “Mr. Hitchcock, I can’t play this scene!” the actor cried. “I don’t understand it? Why would my character say and do this? What’s my motivation?” “Your paycheck,” replied
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

Did Apple’s iPhone Track Lady Gaga to William and Kate’s Wedding?

No, it didn’t. Apple made a statement confirming what I’d been suspecting: the consolidated.db file is a cache of cell tower and WiFi hotspot locations to speed up triangulation in Location Services on iOS, period. “The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-F
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

iPhone SpyPhone? The Video!

I had a realization yesterday that, since lots of locations—as many as 43 or more at a time—get given the same time stamp in the consolidated.db file, there wasn’t any particular reason to bucket things by week, or by day. You can get a sequential picture of what the phone was doing by simply treati
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

An Even Deeper Dive Into the iPhone Location Data

[UPDATE: Check out the latest installment, "iPhone/SpyPhone?—The Music Video!", with a soundtrack by David Byrne. You can also download a higher-res version of the video, my code changes for Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker, a prebuilt version of iPhoneTracker like the one I used to make the video, and a
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

A Follow-up on the iPhone Location Fracas

[UPDATE: Check out the latest installment, "iPhone/SpyPhone?—The Music Video!", with a soundtrack by David Byrne. You can also download a higher-res version of the video, my code changes for Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker, a prebuilt version of iPhoneTracker like the one I used to make the video, and a
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

iPhones and Location: Let’s Not Get Hysterical.

[UPDATE: Check out the latest installment, "iPhone/SpyPhone?—The Music Video!", with a soundtrack by David Byrne. You can also download a higher-res version of the video, my code changes for Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker, a prebuilt version of iPhoneTracker like the one I used to make the video, and a
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

Facebook Get Even Sillier

I’m not talking about the policies here, I’m talking about the implementation. A Canadian newspaper, the Examiner, is using Facebook’s much-touted commenting system on their site. When someone likes a comment you made there, or adds a comment to a thread in which you participated, you get a notifica
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Live in The Future! It's Starting · 1Y ago

The Pomodoro Technique

I’m going to be writing more about this shortly, as a follow-on to my previous posting on To-Do lists and their perils.
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