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Reflections on Siri on “her” 2 Year Birthday

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 4, 2013 Posted in Mobility, Technology No Comments Tagged with Siri

Read this great article in The Verge today on the voice behind Siri. I’m finding myself using #Siri more and more these days, especially for quick tasks that would otherwise take multiple steps and involve unlocking the phone. For example, …

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Dyson sues Samsung over new vacuum

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 10, 2013 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with patents

This strikes me as a good example of “good patents” but where the patent system none-the-less is failing to protect innovators – i.e. here is a company, Dyson, that has come up with some revolutionary new technologies, which they have …

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Launch of #TheOpenAgenda at Telefónica

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 4, 2013 Posted in Technology, Web No Comments Tagged with TheOpenAgenda

I’m proud to be a part of an activity called “The Open Agenda” as part of my work at +Telefonica Digital. It’s a combination of blog posts, video interviews,  panels and media and events that will all focus on the topic …

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How Warm Is It in My House?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on April 2, 2013 Posted in Technology 2 Comments Tagged with arduino, bluevia, cosm, gsmshield, internetofthings

This weekend I built a simple temperature sensor with #arduino  and got it sending information to #cosm  via the #gsm  shield, using the #bluevia SIM for data. Even after a year working on this project, this was actually the first …

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Having a Cartwright Moment about Telecoms Regulation

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on March 28, 2013 Posted in Technology 1 Comment

So I read this article with some interest this morning on the Tube. Reading it requires subscription or sign-up (it was one of my 8 free articles a month – I’m not sufficiently motivated to subscribe, I’m afraid, though I’m …

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Conditions at Foxconn – Should we care?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on January 31, 2012 Posted in Politics, Technology No Comments

I was greatly moved  yesterday after listening to the This American Life episode on conditions at Foxconn, the plant in China than makes (among other things) iPhones, iPads, and most other Apple products. I just made a post on Facebook relating to …

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Developers, developers, developers…

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 16, 2010 Posted in mobile 2.0, Technology 1 Comment

I was amused to see that Nokia’s new CEO closed his talk at Nokia World in London by reprising Balmer’s famous “developers, developers, developers” speech. I’ve been talking to a lot of developers lately. I just got through co-organizing and …

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When DRM Goes Bad

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 18, 2009 Posted in Media, Technology 3 Comments Tagged with amazon, Apple, appletv, DRM, kindle, time

I read with some interest about the debacle of Amazon’s “total recall” of 1984 (and other books) yesterday. Kindle owners found some e-books they had downloaded and paid for had mysteriously disappeared from their readers (and that they had been …

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Can We Kill Email?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 28, 2008 Posted in mobile 2.0, Technology 10 Comments Tagged with email

One of the most interesting discussions I had in San Francisco two weeks ago (where I was co-presenting Mobile 2.0 and the Mobie Tech 4 Social Change camp) was with Brian Fling on the unlikely subject of email. We both …

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OnePulse: So Far, not so Good

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on September 21, 2007 Posted in London, Technology 6 Comments Tagged with barclaycard, onepulse, oystercard, thetube

Update on the Barclaycard OnePulse. Apparently, getting an application out to me in the mail is too difficult for these guys because I haven’t received it yet. I also don’t quite understand why I have to re-apply for this card. …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

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