We got an email through to Clearleft from someone pointing out a certain similarity between our website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/8719586981/
…and the website for a company called Kent Web Host:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/8720710854/
Hmmm …perhaps Clearleft were unconsciously influenced by Kent Web Host!
Just to set the record straight, I gave them a call.
Tagged with phone call clearleft web design kent web host influence inspiration
We finally know what the inventor of the telephone sounded like. Last week, the Smithsonian unveiled recordings of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice from 1885. It’s the first known recording of him speaking.
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We celebrated our one month anniversary a few days ago, so it seemed fitting to run with the very first episode that we produced back when we were kicking around ideas for getting the podcast off the ground. It’s a page out of Kevin’s research on the history of hacker culture, which turns to a meditation on the role of telephony and sound in our world. Enjoy!
Major Thanks…
The phreak who goes by Mark Bernay is a wonderful and gracious guy for talking with me and for lending me some of his audio to use in this episode. If you want to check out more of his recordings, head over to Phone Trips.
Music
http://podcast.asc.upenn.edu/2012/10/episode-6-f-is-not-for-phreak/
Throttling is a way for the cell phone company to limit its unlimited customers. Bloomberg technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky talks to David Greene about what AT&T has been doing to customers who use the most data.
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/28/147553710/at-t-throttles-heaviest-data-users
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An Audioboo by @solobasssteve, talking to Brian Suda at History Hack Day 2011 at The Guardian offices in London.
An Audioboo by @solobasssteve from History Hackday.
http://audioboo.fm/boos/260879-searching-huffduffer-com-audio-by-phone
Glenn Lurie, President, Emerging Devices Organization, AT&T Alan Rambam, President, Mobile Behavior Arun Bhikshesvaran, Senior Vice President of Multimedia and Infrastructure Solutions, Ericsson Ali Diab, Vice President of Product Management, AdMob Peter Hoddie, CEO, Kinoma Tim Attinger, Global Head of Product Development, Visa Inc. Jon Fortt, Senior Writer, Fortune - Moderator
With adoption of wireless handsets approaching 90 percent in the United States, companies are looking for new, innovative ways to connect people and their devices. What will this technology look like and what will it mean for consumers and businesses in terms of devices, network capabilities and integration? Industry experts will discuss the benefits and challenges facing companies as customers and businesses demand more content of higher quality and speed wherever they are and on any device.
The growing number of mobile applications with speech is drawing renewed interest in a series of interesting and challenging UI puzzles.
In this talk, Googler Bill Byrne gives a brief overview of the various Google projects that involve speech. He also describes his work on the design and research of mobile apps with speech.
Webvisions 2008 Going Fast on the Slow Mobile Web Speaker: Jason Grigsby