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Looking at what Apple has done with the iPhone and what Google has in store for the Android phone I can't help by wonder about the squandred opportunity Microsoft has let go in the marketplace of mobile computing.  Obviously they were one of the openers of this whole smart phone revolution that is spilling out into the popularity index lately but what gives, why is there no bump in the nite about something new from them? 

Apple has crushed and essentially redefined what a cool featured phone can be all about, and while it continues to chip away at the blackberry scene there is little to no objection from the WindowsMobile folks, they are ready to line up and die at Apple's front door.

Android and iPhone will dominate smart phone, cool phone, neato phone chatter and development press for the next 3 years easy.  I just wonder why there isnt a new push, maybe they have nothing new to report or what they simply didn't see this coming.  But seriously, Microsoft blows ooodles in R&D, how is it that this window of opportunity was lost?  Ignored perhaps?  Comfortble where you are?  Why do it differently when the standard has worked ok for so long?  Did phones suddenly get all high tech?  Did the software to tech ratio just catch up over night? 

Squandred I say, wasted opportunity on their part and now like their own operating system, and office domination, its all up for debate.  You no longer NEED or MUST have Office, get OpenOffice or GoogleDocs, or something similar.  You no longer have to go Windows, Mac is a solid option.  And who'd buy a windows mobile phone when you look at todays mobile phone scene- blackberry, iphone, android and its only get more competitve, refined and better. 

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Nearly everyone on the web, connected to social media in some fashion has become an expert... and.. it bothers me.  Why?  Hell I'm an expert too.  But why does it bother me.  In the past 5 months my social media consumption index, ooo I just made that up, has skyrocketed.  I'm so aware it freaks me out.  I'm interconnected to ideas spanning from wild viral marketing bits to startup to dos and dont's and all kinds of whimscal VC thoughts and market impact knowledge and fuel for the next creative generation, and all about can I haz cheeseburger, I know things, I'm part of the playing field, I'm on, always on.

Always.. an expert.  Ever advancing, always ready to coin up a new phrase, tasty sound bite, ready to leap into the fray with just handful of knowledge- thank you google, twitter, linkedin.. I'm ready to rumble.

Or am I?

What is participation on a massive scale doing to the web?  Are we all experts?  Experts at debating in a social network sort of web?  Powered by our almighty knowledge of delicious, search engines and analytical page ranking comparison engines?  We know.  We really know anything want to know. 

Books and knowledge used to exist in a few places.  In the pages of a cool comic, in a univerisity library, or in our grunge covered song writing notebook.  Our imagination ran wild in the infinite space of our minds. 

I suppose the hard drive got bigger in some respects as now we collaborate on everything and anything together, all sharing ideas, iterating on the process of learning over and over and over and over.  We're the expert army, yet catch us on a game show or candicamera and I wonder how much expertise we retain. 

I'm cautious of the all knowing oracle in me.  I want to wonder more, use the engine less, yet remember what its good for and basically learn not to abuse it. 

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It's been a crazy week!  The dow jumping.. ok sliding down all over the place.  Lextant moving into a cool new space.  Kicked off our first design related podcast series called the Design Forty and synergized with my new office mates! 

Celebrated this evening with another mix creation via pacemaker.net.  I'm up to 7 mixes up there. Its fun to create these things. 

Next week should be good, lots to do.  Working on the new spotwurk as well.. coming soon joemetric.

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I came across this excellent video series this morning about future mobile experience Seoul Korea.  It's basically a video walk through of potential trends that will no doubt to some extent actually occur. 

The mobile space is on fire and as consumers become more aware, connected, and acustomed to an always on reality.

It's also a cool video on how to visually convey an idea you have around the future, combining day in the life of someone with trend ideas + narration but always going back to show the useful potential context to help shore up the forward idea.  

Its nicely edited as well.  One of the better videos I've seen in this regard.  Nokia should take notice of this type of content.  They usually go in this kind of informative video direction.  I wish some of text was bigger and using the YouTube annotation feature, they could just insert that text in there. 

Cool video!  For more information on this day in the life study check out m-trends.org

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Must generate more content!

Ok here's the news.  Lextant folks are moving into a new space, right next door actually, and then construction workers will work to merge our two new spaces together.  The new space is pretty rocking, I'm excited.

Lots of odds and ends here lately.  Let's give you the update.

First, the Bro, aka Chris did this wickedly delicious presentation at IDSA's 2008 conference a few weeks ago, this is probably his best work to date, this presentation rocks and is chuck full of supreme value. 

Let's see in other related news.  My twitter account has been rocking lately, making lots of new contacts and all kinds of goodness unfolding there.  I keep making mental notes to redo the flooz here and yes its coming someday.  I really want to make use of my google reader shared RSS, because I think its a nice distilled taste of essential flooz approved content.  I am the human newness filter, love me. 

I started playing Pacemaker.net today.  I kinda want the hardware DJ mix system they sell, but I also like this whole pacemaker social network community they've constructed, very cool.  While on the site today I noticed they had a dj mix software you could download... within minutes of that I had my first mix done and I'm hooked, very cool software.  Check out my Bankers Box mix here.

In YouTube bits.. what do I got here...

Saw that the other day, more stuff to buy.  Course with the current economic rollercoaster ride, I think I'll hold off major purchases for awhile.

Already that's all I got for now, more content coming.

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