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Lifestyle profiling: Your smartphone will know what you want to do next

Mail Online :: From telling us when our train is coming, helping us when we're lost and letting us watch our favourite TV shows, there seems no limit to how involved our smartphone is with our day-to-day life. Now the gadget promises something so advanced it verges on the supernatural: it will know exactly what we're doing tomorrow.

A summary of a study by Sara Malm | Lucy Osborne, www.dailymail.co.uk

Well connected? Silp matches jobs with a user’s pre-defined skills and social graph

Do you have the right people in your network? What happens if your network exists mainly offline? - I write that with a smile in my face.

The Next Web :: By pairing available jobs with a user’s social graph, Silp provides employers with the tools to identify potential candidates in their and their company’s network. When an employer posts a job vacancy, they, their co-workers and friends can see who in their extended network (friends and friends-of-friends) might be a good fit for the position.

A report by Robin Wauters, thenextweb.com

Digital life: How technology unites and divides Irish households

siliconrepublic.com :: Eircom conducted its first ever Household Sentiment Survey to explore the significant digital transformation taking place in homes across Ireland and discover how modern technology is shaping our lives and influencing our behaviour.

[David Coleman, clinical psychologist:] ... the most common scenario (29%) is the family all together, but interacting with separate pieces of technology.

A report by Elaine Burke, www.siliconrepublic.com

'Botanicus Interactus': How to make any plant into a multitouch sensor

The Next Web :: Disneyland is going to get a touch more awesome if new research coming out of Disney’s Pittsburgh research lab gets its day. The project, called Botanicus Interacticus, turns plants into multi-touch sensors.

A report by Matthew Panzarino, thenextweb.com

Visit the Research Labs here Disney, disneyresearch.com

HT: Andreas Floemer, t3n

'Mediated reality': Steve Mann, wearable computing pioneer

New York Times :: Steve Mann is considered by many to be the world’s first cyborg. He has been using wearable computers that assist his vision since the 1970s. Now he wears a display screen over his right eye and is connected to a computer and the Internet. In this edited interview, he discusses “mediated reality”; the coming wearable-computing wars among Apple, Google and RIM; and the brain-computer interface.

A report by Nick Bilton, bits.blogs.nytimes.com

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Sharism - Isaac Mao, 毛向輝: Sharing is encoded in the Human Genome

Freesouls :: With the People of the World Wide Web communicating more fully and freely in Social Media while rallying a Web 2.0 content boom, the inner dynamics of such a creative explosion must be studied more closely. What motivates those who join this movement and what future will they create? A key fact is that a superabundance of community respect and social capital are being accumulated by those who share. The key motivator of Social Media and the core spirit of Web 2.0 is a mind switch called Sharism.

Sharism - the idea - Essay by Isaac Mao (毛向輝), freesouls.cc

Jonah Lehrer's downfall is not his alone: (America's) shortcut culture

The original title is "America's shortcut culture," but this cultural change does not take place in the U.S. alone.

Los Angeles Times :: It's worth noting that Jonah Lehrer's impulse to come up with tidy quotations that seamlessly fit into his theme happened in the context of a culture in which the concepts of "documenting" and "manipulating" are no longer always at odds. Indeed, they often cannot afford to be because ideas expressed in anything but the most succinct and entertaining terms run the risk of losing the ratings wars.

[Meghan Daum:] That is, audiences are inclined to not only prefer cleaned-up quotes, they're likely to favor a more staged version of events over the more banal, factual version.

"Shortcut culture" - An opinon piece by Meghan Daum, www.latimes.com

HT: and also a must-read: Steve Myers, Poynter: "Plagiarism, more fake interviews in Jonah Lehrer’s books"

UK trends: Turfing, ROBO shopping and text over talk

Siliconrepublic.com :: According to Ofcom’s ‘Communications Market Report 2012’, a number of new trends driven by technology are emerging among UK consumers, such as a preference to text rather than talk, surfing the web while watching TV, and offline shopping informed by online research.

A summary by Elaine Burke, www.siliconrepublic.com

Findings, continue to read here stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk

Mobile 3.0 arrives: How Qualcomm just showed us the future contextual awareness

Scobleizer :: The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn’t notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did. - What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones.

A report by Robert Scoble, scobleizer.com

Mark Curtis: The next major design shift will be living design

VentureBeat | Washington Post :: Mark Curtis knows a thing or two about design. He founded the high-end design firm Fjord, which counts Nokia and PayPal as its clients. And at our Mobile Summit event in April, he articulated the rise of chief design officers, and how they’ll soon replace chief marketing officers.

[Mark Curtis:] We call it living design because the key thing that’s going to happen next… is undoubtedly the Internet of things.

Living design - Continue to read VentureBeat, www.washingtonpost.com