Posts with keyword: context+automation

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Activity Contexts in SquareTag

Mon Jan 28 11:31:00 2013

While knowing my location is a good thing, knowing what I want to do is even better. Until machines become sentient, SquareTags that record activity context is an excellent way to bridge the gap.
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The Forgotten Edge: Building a Purpose-Centric Web

Tue Sep 22 07:51:00 2009

Abstract Since it's inception, the primary metaphor of the Web has been one of location. By framing the Web as a collection of places, we have necessarily caused Web development to focus on servers. But people don't get online to go to a server. They get online to get something done--achieve a purpose. This talk argues that focusing on purpose allows us to build Web applications that more closely align with what people want from the Web. Focusing on purpose will require a move to more intelligent client-side applications. Technological development in the area of Internet identity over the
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Context Automation Talk from Gluecon

Fri Jul 17 09:50:00 2009

My talk on Context Automation is up on InfoQ now. They've done a nice job with video and slide syncing. In this talk, I discuss the role of digital identity in context automation and web augmentation. I go through an example of building a ruleset in KRL that puts the latest tweet for a search term inside the google search results as part of the talk.
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Context Automation: Slides from Gluecon

Fri May 15 10:53:00 2009

I've post my slides from my talk at Gluecon on Wednesday at SlideShare. Context AutomationView more presentations from windley. I haven't had time to do audio for this yet. I hope to at some point.
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Context Automation

Tue Feb 17 09:36:00 2009

Judith Burton has written a good piece on context automation and what we're doing at Kynetx. She says: When browsing the Internet, each web site encounter throughout the browsing episode is a separate or ad hoc experience. There is no thread or connection from one site to another except in the user's mind. The user must hold the context of the browsing episode outside of each web site encounter. From Context AutomationReferenced Tue Feb 17 2009 09:30:53 GMT-0700 (MST) And then later: To create a context across multiple sites, an abstraction layer may be employed that is capable of
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