Posts with keyword: spimes

3 entries

Fitbit as Gizmo

Wed Jun 8 10:51:00 2016

The networked devices you purchase aren't products as we've historically understood that term. You're not buying the device, you're buying the service. Fitbit is just a interface to a networked service. Without the service, the device is good for nothing.
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A Pico-Based Platform for ESProto Sensors

Mon May 2 16:36:00 2016

Spimes are a wonderful intellectual framework for thinking about the Internet of Things. This blog post shows how spimes can be created using picos and then applied to a sensor platform called ESProto.
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Spimes on Technometria: Transcript Available

Fri Apr 4 19:11:00 2008

A few weeks ago, I talked to Roberto Ostinelli and David Orban, founders of OpenSpime.org, an open source infrastructure that supports spimes, small objects that can be tracked in space and time (hence, "spime"). Bruce Sterling coined the word. You can hear the interview or read it, if you'd rather thanks to David making a transcript available.
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