Background on my work as a product designer, writer and technologist, and the patents, media coverage and references that have accumulated around it.
A service that receives location updates from multiple sources, estimates a user’s current position and controls how precisely it is shared with each application, allowing products and services to exchange location without maintaining separate systems. Co-invented at Yahoo with Simon P. King, Paul Hammond, Simon Willison, Rahul Nair, Shane Ahern and Mor Naaman.
Methods for organizing distributed media around users’ interests, activity levels and annotations. The system creates pages that surface related material by topicality and quality, helping people discover content held across repositories. Co-invented at Yahoo with Paul Hammond, Simon Willison and Liang-Yu Chi.
Wearable systems that predict the effects of consumables, helping plan sleep around when caffeine falls below a chosen threshold. Co-invented at Jawbone with Aza Raskin and Matt Biddulph.