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the meaning of personalised – a note

“personalised” – what does it mean? Personalised recommendations from Amazon, for example, extrapolate data – just for you – from your existing, past shopping and browsing behaviour on Amazon. As a process, this does not however define the subcategories according to your online activity from which “personalised” suggestions will be drawn. These are

H(uman)API & IoT according to Brian Solis in an article I understand to support Little Elephant’s social media proposition: “the Human API, the idea that who we are, who we know, what we experience and do are important layers in the Internet of Things.”

Considering the relationship between the Internet, data, and devices, I can’t help but think about Marshall McLuhan’s ominous words, “The more data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”With the Internet of Things, that data takes residence in the cloud with various devices

tui in branches & other

Kicking Silicon & the Death Star – 2 bare links

[Netscape’s ex – sold it to AOL – Marc Andreesen, Google CEO Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and other businesspersons and financiers of the Silicon Valley school] all uniformly emphasized the need for improvements to America’s A) education system, and B) immigration system. Which is great, because

#GOAPNZ @the_icehouse – reviewed

Andy Hamilton started with a joke. “Turn around folks…” “Isn’t it beeeoootifool!” “Aren’t we lucky to be in this beautiful building. Aren’t we lucky to live in this beautiful city!” As if realising Andy’s mistake, Sir Stephen Tindall addressed the issue with words to the effect

from The Curves of Time, 1998, Oscar Niemeyer

“What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.” – quoted here

R.I.P. Oscar Niemeyer, December 15 1907 to December 5 2012

– Office, Rio de Janeiro by Tuca Vieira – Copan, architect Oscar Niemeyer, 1954, photograph by Tuca Vieira