Invisible Yet Necessary

Lately, there has been a lot of discussion on Wi-Fi access sharing. This is not a new topic but it has probably found a new life with FON building a business model around people sharing their Wi-Fi access and FON getting major funding from both Skype and Google. I probably have to thank Martin Varsavsky […]

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As part of the research project for my master, I am conducting an online survey on how people understand and use Wi-Fi technologies.
The goal of the survey is to help improve the design of Wi-Fi by collecting various user experiences.
Whether you have used it only once or use it everyday, every experience you had with […]

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Now that you don’t have to wonder how does callback work?, I can explain some of the interesting designs that comes with this system. By designs, I am refering to so-calls “hacks” or modification made to the original system to support a particular type of users or a new functionality. As callback was an […]

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Before Voice over IP, there was callback
A recent post by Julian Bleecker on how people will devise complicated systems to find a way to communicate reminded me of the time I worked in a callback company.
In areas where owning a cell phone is not routine — for economic reasons, predominantly — it is not […]

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