Just found out that Cisco has a mobile version located at www.cisco.com (access it with a mobile device). Interesting but (hopefully) there is room for improvement ;-)
Talking about accessing mobile website, looks like there is a new trend, the “m dot” trend (m.youtube.com, m.yahoo.com,..): The rise of m – in the face of .mobi
I am suppose to be the lucky user of the new Vodafone portal: colorful, clear, and personnal!
All I get is a black and white page with lot of space to scroll to access very few content. Pathetic!
Other good news about Vodafone:
Dassault is jumping in the 2D code in the bandwagon using Tag me “technology” (ie. system using datamatrix – open – but based on shortcode – closed). I can not read it with the reader I have installed on my phone. Useless then.
Actually I wonder if people signing for such campaign (in this case Dassault marketing people) realizes that they could do something similar accessible to every reader (and probably cheaper). Probably not…
Update: Tagme reader might be downloaded at this URL: www.mobiletag.com/download
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The `intelligent skin` consists of variably combinable components in order to continuously produce re-generating images on the façade.
`intelligent skin` provides your company or institution with a means enabling you to give your head or branch office a positive public appearance that attracts attention.
Using the wall of your office as a communication channel. I understand it is a one-way channel for now (eg. the company display whatever infos they want thanks to the intelligent skin). How to make it two-ways then ?
Via Bilan
CISCO – its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco (one can double check with Corporate’s timeline)
What about Intel, Lotus, Microsoft ? Check it out…
I strongly believe that datas will reside on the network (I even wrote it). Ned Hooper (Head of Business dev @ Cisco – e.g. the boss of the boss… of my boss :-) put it in this interview in another nice way:
My wife just got a new car and it comes equipped with Bluetooth and an iPod docking station. And it makes you think, how many hard drives are we carrying around with us every day? Three, maybe four. Bluetooth is putting some of those devices wirelessly onto the network to deliver information to the vehicle. So why store data on a portable hard drive when the network is ubiquitous and can deliver that information to the vehicle?
The challenge is now to make all those devices seamlessy talk and exchange with the network…
After several years working in the industry I am now teaching computer science in a Professional School in Canton de Vaud (Centre Professionel du Nord Vaudois – CPNV).
Before jumping into the fabulous world of education I was a member of Cisco Technology Group (CTG). The group’s mandate was to conduct technology due-diligence for investments/acquisitions, identify major technology market disruption and shape Cisco’s technology strategy. In that context I was leading the development of methodology and related web-based infrastructure for the identification of emerging trends coming from Venture Capital activities, with a focus on tracking early-stage companies. I also contributed to the development of tools to facilitate collaboration within the group and to the management of Cisco’s direct and indirect investments portfolio.
Priori to joining Cisco, I was CTO of KAYWA, a CTI-labeled startup located in Zürich. I joined Kaywa after having worked a couple of years developping web application as a freelancer as well as developing my own service on the web called iFeedYou (a mobile RSS aggregator, pre-dating Google Reader). From 1999 to 2003 I lived in Boston (MA, USA) and worked at Nokia Research Center in the field of Intelligent Agent and Affective Computing.
I hold a Master in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland) and I have two patents pending.
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I had read and heard a lot about it but earlier this week I spent my first hours in Second Life. Well, Cisco joined SL end of last year, I had to discover that world. Quite promising and you can expect more on that topic later on… My avatar is called Smooth Ewing (yeah you got it… like J.R.)
Remember Denim that has jeans with a 2D code on it ? It is now Zadig & Voltaire turn to print 2D code, QR Code in fact, on a limited edition of the “tunisian” t-shirt Zadig Rocks.
Shoot the code with your mobile and a QR Code reader and it will automatically download the latest Zadig playlist (a few megas). 75 euros for a t-shirt… looks like QR Code has entered the “have-to-have-it-to-be-cool” space…
You might know it (you might have get a notification from one of those fabulous social network I am using time to time) but since end of May I am not working for Kaywa anymore. I am now a “Ciscolian“. I have decided to move from a startup to a “big” company and that implies quite a lot of changes I might write about here in the futur.
What about my work ? well my interests has not changed in one night so I will still work on mobile applications (and QR Code and so on) and social network but within Cisco here in the TechCenter in Rolle. I might talk also about my research and futur development here on this blog but I need first to check the blogging policy of Cisco (well you know, big companies have policies,…).
Also talking about which you might have noticed that I moved my blog out of Kaywa and set it up on WordPress. Not that I do not like Kaywa anymore as a blogging plateform, of course not, but just that it does not fit my needs as a geek. I do not have access to the templates any more and I need to be able to put my hands in the code to change whatever I want to try/test.