Nokia makes the mobile 'a full member of the internet': "The move also seems to raise a key issue for Nokia – how far the Symbian OS, which it has long championed as the key next generation smartphone system, fits into its new strategy, geared not just to phones but to the emerging ideas of "the internet of things"."

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[Dave Ph]

Woah.
Looks like the reg is misinterpreting "the internet of things" to mean "an internet of non-PC access devices". The internet of things is a companion term to ubicomp (ubiquitous computing), spimes, ambient findability and cradle-to-cradle manufacturing. It refers to an internet of actual things (pens, car keys, socks, cats, UPS parcels, bottles of wine, my damn chequebook, you know - normal stuff!)

Try this as a starter:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail717.html

[Tom Hume]

Oooh, cheers for the link. Downloading for my next car/train journey :)

So when does the "internet of things" collide with the internet of phones to which Nokia is referring? And how do you plan to stop TBL from bitch-slapping whoever's splitting these internets apart and killing our One True Internet?

[Dave Ph]

The internet of things will use the Internet, the nokianet, arphids, the WWW etc as an underlying stratum, just like thw world wide web does. It's an application space, like location-based systems are in the £G universe.

It's not a fork, and TBL's semantic web is another internet of things enabler. As is web 2.0, web 3.0 ad neaseum. When you google your wallet, you'll find it because it knows where it is, and it's told some database. Semantic web's gotta help with that process, even if it just normalises datastructures for personal item location...

[Dave Ph]

Freudian shiftlock:
£G = 3G
oops.

[Tom Hume]

Ah, should've given a ref - I was referring to the One Web not the semantic one - err not that they're different things: http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp-scope/#s3.2

Think I need to listen to that podcast before discussing this further :)