Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. Using your mobile phone, you “tag” or capture photos throughout the day, label them with any words you want, and send them to your map. At home, you access and customize your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly.
As a visitor to the Foundcity site, you view a map of all tags and connect with the people and places that share your interests. By plugging in to the network of Foundcity users, you learn what others value in the city as you surf their hotspots. By publishing your own tags, you share what you know about your city.
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6/30/2005 in
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Our students completed today the presentation of the GSM Tracker project. It is basically an application written in Symbian which runs on the Series 60 and that allows to track the Cell id of the current network cell. This information can then be passed to a database and reused by other applications. Another interesting aspect of their work is that they integrated a fast and rough algorithm for the centroid approximation of the cell. This enable the user to build autonomously a database of the locations of the towers’ positions.
We are planning to release soon the source code. In the mean time you can check the project report (sorry only in French at the moment) and the PowerPoint presentation (in French also).
Sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this perspective it is our obligation to use it wisely.
Recently it started to integrate satellite imagery to show places subject to environmental predation.
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6/30/2005 in
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Dinnerbuzz is a social guide to dinner and drinks. Pretty much the same look and feel of del.icio.us, just targeting places where to eat. It seems that the power of social tagging is extending far beyond geek usage. What I think is missing here is an integration with Google Maps.
Structured blogging is about making a movie review look different from a calendar entry. On the surface, it’s as simple as that – formatting blog entries around their content.
To see what we’re talking about, check out the sample content on the blog. On another level, it’s a bit more complicated – what we want to do is create structure (in the form of XML) around each of these types of entries, to organize the data inside and to let machine readers – other programs, sites, and aggregators – better understand the content.
CellTrack is a program to collect some phone information about the cell you are connected to – like the net monitor.
The topic of the CAIF workshop was the development of furniture that can support collaboration and interaction of the students in the learning center. 50 researchers participated from all over the world to brainstorm of possible applications. Here is the booklet that present their research projects.
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6/27/2005 in
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Last week, during the CAIF workshop, we presented the concept of ShoutSpace and STAMPS, the project I am conducting for my PhD. Here are the slides of the presentation.
Yummy allows you to share your favorite pdf with others. You can tag them and for each tag an RSS feed is generated
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Found it via google maps satellite…
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6/24/2005 in
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An interesting spring off from the media lab community. The goal of the site is to provide a medium for people to archive, share, and search for creative projects and resources. Their mission is to increase the efficiency of creative development process through information management and distribution.
A screenshot of the textable movie.
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Found this nice osxhint on how to become a power user of iChat. Nice tricks like multi person chatting …
a cognitive attractor is a set of material and immaterial elements which potentially contribute to a given activity, and which are simultaneously present from the point of view of the agent. The force of the attractor resides in the combination of several factors: the visibility of the task, its cost, its value.
[more about it here: http://www.utc.fr/arco/publications/intellectica/affiche_numero.php?num=30 in french though 
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Young teenagers are as concerned as ever about changing society and their own situation, even though they turn their backs on organised politics in favour of one-issue organisations and other vehicles for action. The role of public service broadcast media in these processes is not well understood, particularly in relation to the rapid development of digital media and their intrinsic qualities. Based on a sociological and media-cultural analysis, we propose a conceptual design for Avatopia , a virtual community intended to provide the means for non-violent societal action among young teenagers. Avatopia is based on four cornerstones: cross-media presence (including public service broadcast TV), a strategy for seeding the community, collective narration as a vehicle for action, and a custom-designed avatar world (a 3D-graphical ‘place’ on the Internet where participants are represented visually and can communicate verbally) providing necessary tools and structures. A qualitative assessment of our design concept yields a set of expected benefits, anticipated risks and success criteria informing our further development.
This is a Geographic Information System that use mobile phones equipped with a camera and a GPS.
we are developing a geographic information system using a cellular phone that is equipped with a camera and a GPS. Our purpose is to provide rich social information spaces for local communities or town managements. Users can annotate not only text notes but also photos to physical spaces by sending emails with photos and location information by GPS attached from mobile phones. This enables any users to annotate information to physical spaces when and where they want to do it and act as content provider.
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