August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Lynne Kiesling at Knowledge Problem imagines a refrigerator that is not only a kitchen appliance but also a network appliance.
By equipping refrigerators with an IP address and a web interface we could tell them to do things like ordering a new filter from a specified vendor at the appropriate time. Where it [...]
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Tags: Appliances · Control Systems
I may like company X’s algorithms for scanning traffic but hate their GUI. Why does one have to be attached to the other?
Rob tipped me off to some commentary by Mark Curphey about taking advantage of the long-tail phenomenon that the internet has made possible.
What Mark essentially suggests in part 1 is that we [...]
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Tags: Appliances · Interoperability · Marketing · Web