Tag Archives: theory

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Apr 11

iOS Location Caching Round-up – Conspiracy Theories: 0, Smart Location Caching: 1

Posted on 26th April 2011 by Gary

More a meta post, or what Kuro5hin would have called MLP (meaningless link propagation), this post started out as a comment to one of my previous posts on the iOS location caching controversy but soon expanded way beyond a comment … Continue reading →

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May 10

Retiring The Theory of Stuff; But First, A Corollary

Posted on 4th May 2010 by Gary

It’s time to put the Theory of Stuff out to pasture. It’s had a good life. It’s appeared in 5 of my talk decks (or so Spotlight tells me), in 3 of my blog posts and continues to generate hits … Continue reading →

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Feb 10

Contextual Location (and Echoecho Redux)

Posted on 22nd February 2010 by Gary

I recently wrote about echoecho, an SMS based location sharing service and rather dismissed it as another PlayTxt or DodgeBall, both of which are now shuttered, and argued that EchoEcho fails my Theory of Stuff. Nick Bicanic, the CEO of … Continue reading →

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Feb 10

Location is a Key Context, But Most People Don’t Know This

Posted on 12th February 2010 by Gary

Like a lot of people, I get most of the information I use, both personally and professionally, from the web; from RSS feeds, from keyword search alerts and from Twitter. The genesis of my recent Theory of Stuff slowly accumulated out of … Continue reading →

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Feb 10

The Theory of Stuff

Posted on 1st February 2010 by Gary

Once again, this is not the post I set out to write. The one I set out to write was called “In Search of Location’s Sweet Spot” and it’s sitting in draft and not yet posted. That’s because before I … Continue reading →

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