Geek Army Knife

Geek Army Knife #9 – breaking down silos with Toby Moores

Duarte Velez Grilo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:42:39 +0000

Geek Army Knife #9 is up – this time we have talked to Toby Moores of sleepydog. We talk about Social Gaming the impact of it, and what effect it has on society

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Geek Army Knife #8 – is business tired of social ? – with Euan Semple

heltindeblog — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:11:58 +0000

In episode 8, we talked to Social Computing consultant (or as he says himself in the podcast “organizational anarchist”) Euan Semple about Social computing in a business context.

I will leave you with two quotes from the podcast that I found really interesting:

“Is the internet a good or a bad thing ? – it’s a thing”

“If you can measure it, it’s not worth managing”

Enjoy =)

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Geek Army Knife # 7 – Globalisation 3.0 and value fingerprints with Erich Pöttschacher of shapeshifters.net

heltindeblog — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:01:11 +0000

So… the globalisation 3.0 term is taken from the book “The World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman.
In this episode we discussed the globalisation of individuals. We also discussed the return on investment VS return on meaning/involvement.

Anyway, one of the big paradoxes in business is that, usually, things don’t work out because of a cultural mismatch of values. Erich suggests that we leave the stereotypical values out and get to the real “value fingerprint” of people, in their own lives.

Links:

shapeshifters.net
wired article about “why the world is flat” (And if you want to get a free audio version of it, you might just get it by clicking here!)

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Geek Army Knife #6 – “what Orwell didn’t predict” – with Sanjay Khanna

heltindeblog — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:57:14 +0000

So Sanjay of Khanna Research was our mystery person to be interviewed for the Geek Army Knife #6. He met Stephanie and Bryan Rieger in Vancouver after he had worked with Nokia writing a thought paper on the future of play. The connection they shared was a mutual interest in mobile games. In the paper for Nokia, Sanjay talked about stress and anxiety increasing. As a response, the Nokia team commissioned Future Platforms in United Kingdom to develop a mobile toy called “Twitchr”. Twitchr is a casual game that Sanjay thinks is quite calming to play.

The reason this podcast episode is called “what Orwell didn’t predict” is that Mr. Orwell forgot to predict the rise of business/marketing/PR in his essay called “politics and the english language”.

Which is what is changing the world so drastically these days – Sanjay also comes with the notion that we will be having a reversal of stereotypes – which is quite interesting stuff =) – We talk about sustainability, economical resources and nothing less than the future of the world.

Links:

Sanjays blogpost about calm technologies

Video about “the long emergency”

George Orwells essay on “politics and the english language” from 1946

James Hansen page on Wikipedia

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Geek Army Knife #5 – Talking to Stephanie Rieger about “all the m’s”

heltindeblog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:12:01 +0000

So we have had the pleasure of having a Mobile User Experience designer on our incredibly useful podcast - none other than the fantastic Stephanie Rieger.

We talked to Stephanie about the context of devices, about transiding from web to mobile, about “all the m’s” and how she believes that instead of replacing the things we know from the internet, the mobile is going to enhance them.

We also touch a bit on the digital divide…good stuff for proper tech enthusiasts =)

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Geek Army Knife #4 – chatting to Charlie about livestreams

heltindeblog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:20:44 +0000

So tonight we have had the pleasure of talking to Charlie Schick. Charlie has been working for Nokia for 7 years and is doing their social platform. The subject that Charlie brough on was “livestreams” and how you could make data more non-linear.Also we get around to talk to the contextual evolution – from web to mobile links:

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Geek Army Knife #3

Duarte Velez Grilo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:22 +0000

Our guest was Alex de Carvalho.

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starting up the geek armyknife again

heltindeblog — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:36:05 +0000

So after almost a year of radiosilence – we have decided to start up the extremely useful geek army knife podcast again.We have found a new method for recording so this time around we hope that the sound will be more than just okay.First recording is tonight.. so watch this space =)

Sound bytes from Reboot 9

Duarte Velez Grilo — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:28:44 +0000

People were asked two questions:

What’s it like to be “human”?
What did you like the most about Reboot 9?

With the usual suspects, Henriette and Duarte, and the participation of:

At Reboot

Duarte Velez Grilo — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:01:13 +0000

We’ve recorded some opinions of Reboot among the attendees. It’ll be published in the near future, probably next week (but depending on the demand we might hurry things a bit).