LIFT08 Notes: Genevieve Bell, Intel, do our digital worlds require secrets and (white) lies?

Genevieve is an ethnographer looking at digital culture and the necessity of “lying”
45%5 of mobile users have lied about wherabouts in sms
100% of online daters lie about height or weight
James Katz says entering arms race of digital deception she locked herself out of flickr because she lied about her age and forgot which [...]

LIFT08 Notes: Younghee Jung Nokia Research

Younghee is a product and interaction designer from Nokia. This talk though left me on an arc from curious to wondering about some unanswered questions about Nokia’s actual role in the developing world. Nokia is engaged global product development. Mobile phone users are of course massively global. How do you design products for poor neighbourhoods [...]

Lift08 Venture Night: 5 Venture Pannelists and one MC

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This update cross-posted from StartupNorth.ca]
Welcome to my live-blogging coverage of Lift08 in Geneva. At venture night togight. 50 submissions, narrowed to 8 startups to present their demo and business case tonight. The format is a good one, familiar from Under the Radar for example, 5 minute demo and business model, 5 minute questions from pannelists [...]