i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Here’s a great example of a multimedia Personal Information Management system. Gregg Gillis, the artist behind the musical mash-up sensation Girl Talk, discusses on NPR how he organizes the music he samples in his work. Here is the most interesting quote about his system:

According to the New York Times, Silicon Valley is seeing a surge in new companies that focus on mobile photo sharing applications. Unlike many established competitors in the field, the new companies are developing mobile apps as a first priority and focusing less on the traditional web incarnation of their products. The photo apps vary in the features they offer, but often mimic the structure of existing social media applications.

This is an interesting example of how people value and commoditize identifiers on the Internet in response to changes in the political and cultural landscape: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/us/28pot.html?ref=technology.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/fashion/16meme.html?_r=1&ref=fashion