Frog Up or Down

Mary Meeker has just given her annual Internet report, so I thought I might review last years presentation, before hand, available on YouTube.  Before I start on this years show. Its fast paced, and busy, she breaks all rules on slide presentation but who cares, you have little time to read them anyway. The slides can be downloaded from LinkedIn , and perused for information, which is vast, and shows all sorts of graphs on computer use, by who, and such things as general population growth , which is why i started to watch these presentations. I have down loaded both 2016 & 2017 slides and added them to both Evernote, but more importantly now, Google Keep , with multiple tags. You might want to review this excellent article on Backchannel , a news site I particularly like, giving a great overview of her work and a very light back ground. You might ask why I listen to her, its simple, the growth of computer use and the type of computer used have a direct link and infl...

If we are to make use of the Internet of things, then the devices ability to access the internet and sent sensor data to the cloud, then this device from Particle.io , is a must. The Video from Scoble shows this technology and how easy it is to set up a specific sensor array and get this connected up so easily. It relies upon a battery and at least a 2G connection, and at about $2 a week its not that expensive to run, although they say a solar array is available. The video below is on Facebook, and presented by Robert Scoble, its a real easy system, so easy to update, and run. There are a number of tutorials to show you how to do things, for me though its a way of getting sensor data back to the building to integrate into the IFC data, cloud cover, temp, wind speed, etc. just drop down the menu bar on the top right of the screen and choose. Cool new IoT Dev kit from http://www.particle.ioFor makers to developers who want to build prototypes with connectivity built in. ...