We seem to have a few RSS subscribers on this site who think that doing RSS refreshes in 5-minute or even smaller intervals is a good idea. Let me assure you: it is not, and you are stretching your welcome on this blog (and probably many other blogs) with this behavior. There is only a small step from this to what could be called a denial-of-service attack...

This blog is updated typically no more than once a day, often a lot less. 5-minute intervals polls thus catch an update once every 24*60/5 = about every 300 times. It's like opening all the windows of your house while switching on the heater; not a good use of resources. Also, it poses the question about what you are doing all day long other than reading news...

Please stop. 1-hour intervals are plently, and even 1-day intervals are good enough.

[P.S. We are talking about individuals here, not RSS indexing sites that may have a legitimate reason for short intervals...]

This is the list of all posts on this blog, ordered chronologically:

Most recent posts

• What happens if business data is liberated? (Oct 22, 2005)
• Now even SAP is talking about "situational" (Jun 13, 2005)
• Impulse Information (May 19, 2005)
• Mining Reality for better mobile phone user iterface (May 02, 2005)
• Another situational content project (Apr 20, 2005)
• "Context Will Be the Secret Sauce of Wireless" (Mar 29, 2005)

Older posts

• Mobile devices as situational remote control (Mar 24, 2005)
• Siemens' Mobile Graffiti (Mar 09, 2005)
• InformationWeek about Situational Software (Mar 08, 2005)
• Harry Blount's Liquid Data (Feb 02, 2005)
• Scott McMullan: Situated Software and The Long Tail of Software (Jan 20, 2005)
• Situational Product Information and Selling (Jan 20, 2005)
• Microsoft gives up on Passport (Dec 30, 2004)
• Posters with Bluetooth (Dec 12, 2004)
• Posters with Bluetooth (Dec 12, 2004)
• "Disappointing performance in the Iraq War's ground campaign ... by a lack of situational awareness among ground forces due to a "digital divide"." (Nov 15, 2004)
• Bluetooth Improvements Coming (Nov 11, 2004)
• "Electronics Boutique to Start Bluespamming" (Nov 05, 2004)
• Carnegie Mellon's MyCampus Project (Nov 04, 2004)
• Nokia Reports 1.7 Billion Wireless Subscribers Worldwide (Nov 04, 2004)
• Another potential Situational Software device (Oct 20, 2004)
• Situational Non-Software (Oct 20, 2004)
• WirelessNewsfactor.com: The Cost of Going Wireless (Oct 16, 2004)
• SFGate.com: Bar code implant calls up medical data (Oct 14, 2004)
• Jot's Applications (Oct 11, 2004)
• Kaiser Permanente on NetMesh at the IBM WebSphere Technical Exchange Conference (Oct 07, 2004)
• New Version of the Mobility Architecture Requirements (Sep 30, 2004)
• NetMesh Developer's Site On-Line (Sep 30, 2004)
• 5-Minute RSS Refresh rates are NOT ACCEPTABLE. (Sep 25, 2004)
• MeetingPoint (Sep 20, 2004)
• A Compass to enable Situational Software (BoingBoing) (Sep 16, 2004)
• Ford's K. Venkatesh Prasad on "The Emerging Fabric of Seamless Mobility" (Sep 11, 2004)
• On Demand Services and Situational Software (Sep 09, 2004)
• Customer-facing situational software (Sep 08, 2004)
• Purdue, Olympus Corp. use sensor networks for situational software (Sep 08, 2004)
• The term "Situational" (Sep 07, 2004)
• DRAFT: Requirements for a Scalable Mobility Architecture (we want comments!) (Aug 25, 2004)
• Malcolm McCullough (Aug 16, 2004)
• New middleware platform for roaming mobile users (Aug 13, 2004)
• Mizuko Ito: Mobiles and the appropriation of place (Vodafone) (Aug 03, 2004)
• Situational Computing vs. Situated Computing -- What's the Difference? (Jul 30, 2004)
• Univ. Hiroshima Project on Situated Computing (Jul 30, 2004)
• Intel Research's StreetTalk Event (Jul 26, 2004)
• Dodgeball Clearly is Situational Software (Jul 21, 2004)
• Russell Buckley's Paper on Location Based Advertising (Jul 13, 2004)
• The EU's Akogrimo Project (Jul 09, 2004)
• Another Interesting Situational Software-related Technology (Jul 08, 2004)
• Location-based Services in Action (Jul 05, 2004)
• Situational Awareness Definition from the U.S. Navy (Jul 05, 2004)
• Situational Leadership (Jul 04, 2004)
• Situational Control (Jul 03, 2004)
• R-Objects is now NetMesh (Jul 01, 2004)
• Bluetooth Introductions (Jun 25, 2004)
• Example Scenario for Situational Software in Healthcare (Jun 24, 2004)
• Usability of Situational Software (Jun 18, 2004)
• Low-Power WiFi for Mobile Devices (Jun 17, 2004)
• W R Carlson on Personas, Group Personas and the Rise of Situational Software (Jun 16, 2004)
• Semantics and Situational Software (Jun 15, 2004)
• Papadopoulos' Definition of Grid Computing (Jun 14, 2004)
• Which Industries Will be Affected by Situational Software? (Jun 11, 2004)
• Pre-integrated and Adaptive Situational Software (Jun 10, 2004)
• "Understanding Mobile Contexts" by Helsinki University Researchers (Jun 09, 2004)
• Ericsson article: "Cooperative Mobile Ambient Awareness" (Jun 08, 2004)
• Logical and Physical Situations (Jun 07, 2004)
• Rupnik and Krisper: "Mobile Applications: A New Application Model in Information Systems" (Jun 06, 2004)
• De Heer et. at. write on "Context-aware Mobile Business Applications" (Jun 05, 2004)
• MobileTrax: "Situational Services: the Ultimate Handheld Experience" (Jun 04, 2004)
• Christopher Carfi points out Accenture's "Intention Value Networks" (Jun 03, 2004)
• Marc Canter talks about Digital Lifestyle Aggregators (Jun 03, 2004)
• What is a Software Application Anyway? (Jun 02, 2004)
• What is Situational Software? (Jun 01, 2004)
• Acknowledgement: Clay Shirky's Article on "Situated Software" (May 29, 2004)
• All Posts on this Blog (May 27, 2004)
• About This Blog (May 27, 2004)

This blog is about the emerging Situational Software paradigm, which will make mobile software truly valuable to business and non-business users alike.

The Situational Software paradigm will carry mobile software into the mass market, and create substantial new business opportunities for technology providers, content providers, operators, device manufacturers and companies engaged in many kinds of e-business.