I: top-level uses

-content capture

-content access (downloaded or copied)

    news or information

-social connection (different speeds, synch and asynch)

II: some principles

    -different time levels (immediate download, eventual upload)

    -integration with Web services (Facebook, Twitter for phone)

    -richness of small device experience (PSP)

    -convenience matters

    -new interfaces

        -tiny but beloved keyboard

        -stylus

        -touchscreen

        -mouse might wane (http://let.blog.nitle.org/2008/07/21/the_mouse_soon_to_decline_gartner/)

    -open vs closed battle

III: selected emergent social and cultural practices

-device and social multitasking

• variable levels of multitasking, depending on situation
• difficulty predicting
• getting students off of earbuds
• different demographics of expectation
• changes in social environment
• phase change

-represented Web content (http://books.google.com/m)

-podcasts

    -predicated on moving audio content

-downloadable apps

    Apps stores

    open markets

    browsing, or quick use and discard

(http://let.blog.nitle.org/2009/02/22/iphone-apps-store-research-on-user-behavior/)

-digitally annotating physical space

    -geotagging content

        example: YouTube-Google Maps (2007 on:

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/10/now-playing-youtube-videos-in-google.html)

    -QR codes

-mobile games

    -ex: http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=jetset   

-device bans

    -airplanes

    -cf Phil Greenspun

-incremental growth of wifi (http://xohm.com/en_US/about/news-events/press-release/news-092908.html)