Tag Archives: apps

Face Recognition – The Elephant in the Room

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Callieo

Back in June of this year, Facebook enabled auto tagging for photographs. The storm of controversy that this unleashed resounded around the net and resulted in a rapid reversal and face recognition was swiftly hidden behind a multitude of privacy … Continue reading →

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Google+ – Secret Circles, Mobile vs Web Experience and Sharing

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Callieo

G+1 Secret Circles Circles are your very own catalogue and filing system and how you set up and manage them will largely depend on how you use the share and read functions. Circles can be embedded and duplicated which make … Continue reading →

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Facebook – a bid for world domination in the data mining game?

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Callieo

Facebook is the worlds largest data mine. Personally I do my best to prevent this by lying woefully about my age, gender, location and other variable purchasing decisions. Yes I even use a stolen credit card online, so if anyone … Continue reading →

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Reflections on conversations over time

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Callieo

Asynchronous conversations probably started out with the advent of a postal system and handwritten letters – images of the traditional postie on his trusty bike, sauntering up the gravel paths to the front door, popping a bundle of assorted envelopes … Continue reading →

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Beta Bunny reviews Localmind

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Callieo

Localmind With a spate of geo-locational apps flooding the market and competing for our check-ins ( aka our data ) Localmind enables users to ask other Localminds questions based upon their location. This is a step towards making apps that … Continue reading →

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Smart Phones?

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Callieo

Recently I have been fortunate enough to play with three smart phones – an interesting experience indeed! 🙂 Each phone has it’s own particular style and functionality, I guess it would be wrong to call it a personality, anthropomorphising a … Continue reading →

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Geo dis-location

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Callieo

A couple of days ago I tweeted about a geolocation app that was deeply cree.py Since then there have been a number of blog posts and Tweets about this app and what it does. The big message from this is … Continue reading →

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Open Cast Data Mining

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Callieo

The recent buzz about the $41 million invested in Color has been causing alot of noise around the web and I have heard many many opinions and reviews. Thought I would add mine for what its worth. Colors is not … Continue reading →

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