The Rise and Rise of Presence Applications « Jared Madden Blog

The Rise and Rise of Presence Applications « Jared Madden Blog:

"Whether you call it micro-blogging, mini-blogging or a presence application (PA), one thing is for certain it is changing the way we connect and interact. PA’s like Twitter and Jaiku (to name a few) have extremely simple interfaces, are easy to comprehend and are highly addictive. ...
So how is this technology changing the way we connect and interact?

Like all great concepts it all comes down to bringing two very simple concepts together. PA’s ‘bridge the gap’ between platforms and allow you to ’subscribe’ to a information source (be it a person or company)."

Yes, but the questions still remains hanging: "how is this technology changing the way we connect and interact?"

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible :: NewMuseum.org:

Emergent digital technologies are rapidly changing both the face of our cities and our daily experience of them, whether invoked in the production of architectural form, the representation of urban space, or our interface to the locative and other services newly available there. Dynamic maps update in real time; garments and spaces deform in response to environmental, biological and even psychological conditions. We find our very emotions made visible, public, and persistently retrievable. Somewhere along the way, we find our notions of public space, participation, and what it means to be urban undergoing the most profound sort of change.

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FFFFOUND! Alas I sold my Royal in a garage sale years ago. Ah well.