Steve Muse » Observations http://www.stevemuse.com Random Musings on Life and Tech Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:25:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Augmented Ikea http://www.stevemuse.com/2009/09/augmented-ikea/ http://www.stevemuse.com/2009/09/augmented-ikea/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:16:30 +0000 Steve http://www.stevemuse.com/?p=131 Check out this for a vision of try before you buy furniture.  Download a printout, point it at the webcam and view a vision of your room with the Ikea sofa.  Like it?   Click to buy.  What is happening now takes us way past Blade Runner check LA Times article.  Life is changing way faster than we think.

]]> http://www.stevemuse.com/2009/09/augmented-ikea/feed/ 0 The Road More Travelled, The Genius of API’s http://www.stevemuse.com/2009/03/the-road-more-travelled-the-genius-of-api%e2%80%99s/ http://www.stevemuse.com/2009/03/the-road-more-travelled-the-genius-of-api%e2%80%99s/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:26:18 +0000 Steve http://www.stevemuse.com/?p=10 Best Buy’s announcement todays that is opening its doors to an almost infinite number of new store locations is proof positive of the genius of API’s, the code that allows third parties to dig into your goods, your inventory, your data and offer it up in ways that suit their customer base. Today no one can be everywhere or know every possible interface between what you do and what people want and that is the beauty of shared data. Create once, sell many times. Data should be free.

Reference http://remix.bestbuy.com/ and http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/twenty-years-later-the-web-is-finally-turning-into-a-computer

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