Comments on: Continous Partial Attention, or ADD? http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:51:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Deepak http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-1960 Deepak Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:00:28 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-1960 I am sure at some point there will be convergence. The phone as we know it will probably completely be replaced by VoIP some day. Its the integration of VoIP and wireless that I am very curious about. Can VoIP replace cellular? What about email convergence? Chat clients (meebo is a step in the right direction, but I like the user experience of individual clients). I am sure at some point there will be convergence. The phone as we know it will probably completely be replaced by VoIP some day. Its the integration of VoIP and wireless that I am very curious about. Can VoIP replace cellular? What about email convergence? Chat clients (meebo is a step in the right direction, but I like the user experience of individual clients).

]]> By: Presence and Voice: A Disaster Waiting to Happen -- Alec Saunders .LOG http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-1874 Presence and Voice: A Disaster Waiting to Happen -- Alec Saunders .LOG Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:10:18 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-1874 [...] Presence is too blunt a tool to solve this problem.    Think about what presence means, for a second, and you will understand why it doesn’t solve the problem.  The word literally means the state or fact of being present.  It doesn’t mean available, interested, or free.  It means present. Presence advertises physicality, not intention, and that’s where presence fails. In business, we used to have assistant’s to screen calls for us. Those assistants knew which calls were relevant, and how willing we were to take those calls. They helped us to organize our days, and prioritize our time.  Most of us don’t have the luxury of a "gatekeeper" anymore.  Cost cutting, and technology took those assistant’s away from us.  As I’ve written before, technology created this problem, and technology will play a key role in solving it.  Relevance filtering technology — software that can discriminate and make choices on your behalf — will become common over time.  You’ll train it as your assistant, and then rely on it utterly and completely.  Bryan’s right.  Presence, without managed availability, will be a disaster. [...] [...] Presence is too blunt a tool to solve this problem.    Think about what presence means, for a second, and you will understand why it doesn’t solve the problem.  The word literally means the state or fact of being present.  It doesn’t mean available, interested, or free.  It means present. Presence advertises physicality, not intention, and that’s where presence fails. In business, we used to have assistant’s to screen calls for us. Those assistants knew which calls were relevant, and how willing we were to take those calls. They helped us to organize our days, and prioritize our time.  Most of us don’t have the luxury of a "gatekeeper" anymore.  Cost cutting, and technology took those assistant’s away from us.  As I’ve written before, technology created this problem, and technology will play a key role in solving it.  Relevance filtering technology — software that can discriminate and make choices on your behalf — will become common over time.  You’ll train it as your assistant, and then rely on it utterly and completely.  Bryan’s right.  Presence, without managed availability, will be a disaster. [...]

]]> By: Nick Trendov http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-1847 Nick Trendov Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:01:13 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-1847 Alec, I'd like a personal view of your engine and using your steal and add approach, would create a version to run on a mobile phone. When can we talk? Henry at www.model.ca knows me. Cheers, Nick PS I was at my Sufi session las month when someone told me that spam harvesters were gathering images in bulk and placing them at the front door of porn sites to get the monkeys to do free data entry. When was the last time you changd the '7'? Just a thought about innovation...Cheers, Nick Alec,
I’d like a personal view of your engine and using your steal and add approach, would create a version to run on a mobile phone.
When can we talk?
Henry at http://www.model.ca knows me.
Cheers,
Nick

PS
I was at my Sufi session las month when someone told me that spam harvesters were gathering images in bulk and placing them at the front door of porn sites to get the monkeys to do free data entry.
When was the last time you changd the ‘7′? Just a thought about innovation…Cheers, Nick

]]> By: Vijay http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-794 Vijay Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:28:04 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-794 James: It sounds like a "hammering" system to try to get hold of someone. I really hope that that someone has lots of patience. Imagine coming back to the office after the weekend and having your voicemail, email and fax machine loaded with the same message. If I am not on a good mood, I might actually set out to hunt down that person :) V. James:

It sounds like a “hammering” system to try to get hold of someone. I really hope that that someone has lots of patience. Imagine coming back to the office after the weekend and having your voicemail, email and fax machine loaded with the same message. If I am not on a good mood, I might actually set out to hunt down that person :)

V.

]]> By: James http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-178 James Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:07:32 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-178 Well, then again, again, I find myself having to call a couple of numbers and send a couple of emails in order to reach someone, so it seems that a flexible implementation of this kind of thing would have some limited usefulness. ...On a clear disk, you can seek forever... Well, then again, again, I find myself having to call a couple of numbers
and send a couple of emails in order to reach someone, so it seems that
a flexible implementation of this kind of thing would have some limited
usefulness.

…On a clear disk, you can seek forever…

]]> By: James http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-137 James Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:28:40 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-137 Yeah, come to think of it, it would be better to do this on the recipient end. Even though I wrote that the sender could select a subset of the contact points, it would probably be such a small subset that this feature might not be worth implementing. Voice-to-print and vice-versa would probably be a neat feature on its own, however, for whichever way people prefer to put down their thoughts. It could be useful for those who make voice notes on their tape recorders while driving. -Jim Yeah, come to think of it, it would be better to do this on the recipient end.
Even though I wrote that the sender could select a subset of the contact
points, it would probably be such a small subset that this feature might
not be worth implementing. Voice-to-print and vice-versa would probably
be a neat feature on its own, however, for whichever way people prefer
to put down their thoughts. It could be useful for those who make voice
notes on their tape recorders while driving.
-Jim

]]> By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-128 Alec Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:12:10 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-128 Hey James. Wouldn't it be better to converge all the mailboxes on one, instead? I would find getting bombarded with 10 of the same messages an annoyance, personally. Hey James. Wouldn’t it be better to converge all the mailboxes on one, instead? I would find getting bombarded with 10 of the same messages an annoyance, personally.

]]> By: James http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-127 James Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:55:53 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-127 I was prompted by this to imagine a cool feature for PDAs that would send a user's message to all of his contact's contact points automatically, with "one click". I developed the idea into a small paragraph on my website at http://www.geocities.com/jameswi.geo/Computer/BusinessIdeas.htm I was prompted by this to imagine a cool feature for PDAs that would send a user’s message to all of his contact’s contact points automatically, with “one click”. I developed the idea into a small paragraph on my website at http://www.geocities.com/jameswi.geo/Computer/BusinessIdeas.htm

]]> By: Alec Saunders .LOG » Blog Archive » http://saunderslog.com/2005/08/16/1724/#comment-124 Alec Saunders .LOG » Blog Archive » Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:32:59 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/?p=1724#comment-124 [...] Being ultra-connected is great in many ways, but it also creates a myriad of problems, as I’ve written previously.  The biggest problem for most of us is the constant barrage of incoming communications requests - email, voice, IM and so on. The average American worker is interrupted over 70 times per day.  Even if each interruption is just three minutes long, it can take 10 to 15 minutes to refocus on the task being performed prior to the interruption, especially if that is a task requiring creativity.  It’s a real challenge to manage this constant flow in a sensible manner without being unresponsive, or rude. [...] [...] Being ultra-connected is great in many ways, but it also creates a myriad of problems, as I’ve written previously.  The biggest problem for most of us is the constant barrage of incoming communications requests - email, voice, IM and so on. The average American worker is interrupted over 70 times per day.  Even if each interruption is just three minutes long, it can take 10 to 15 minutes to refocus on the task being performed prior to the interruption, especially if that is a task requiring creativity.  It’s a real challenge to manage this constant flow in a sensible manner without being unresponsive, or rude. [...]

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