Thanks to patrick+rheingold... CatchBob is ein Koordinationsspiel im Freien, das in Dreiergruppen gespielt wird. Ziel des Spiels ist, einen virtuellen Gegenstand auf unserem Campus zu finden und ihn in einem Dreieck zu fangen. Mobile Computer zeigen den Teilnehmern die Positionen ihrer Partner und ...
France\'s call for project about competitivity
The french government just launched a call for project dealing with competitivity as explained in Le Monde. Cities have to come up with concrete industrial projects focused one specific domain, plus partnership with universities, companies and other forces. The best example is Grenoble with its nan...
Today\'s Big Thing is... Google Map
Yet Another Map Interface (YAMI, well it sounds pretty gound) thanks to Google: maps.google.com. It's a DHTML map interface with searching/zooming/panning capabilities. Here's what I've been pointed to after typing 'michael jackson' as a query: Why do I blog this? It definitely seems a nice move fo...
My hand as a whiteboard
I cannot refrain myself from writing stuff on my hand. It's ugly and dirty of course and everybody tells me that I should not do that. A colleague came up with the idea of putting a small piece of whiteboard on my hand. Of course, since we're morons, we wrapped it with plastic and bubble wrap to pr...
What about instructional games?
The New York Times on video games with an instructional content. The article criticizes this phenomenon. Hundreds of recent video games reward players for shooting villains, vaporizing monsters or solving puzzles. But only one encourages regular and rigorous hand washing. (...) As a result, "I wash...
A coming hiatus in webfeed aggregator use
Brian M. Dennis on a more and more apparent hiatus: I'm starting to be persuaded by Gregory Linden's pitching of Findory as a next generation webfeed aggregator, with social intelligence baked in. I'm thinking there will eventually be a schism in how people use webfeeds somewhat similar to e-mail. ...
Too complicated cell phones
In the feature a column about the fact that mobile phones take on more and more features derived from laptop. While there's something of a reasonable debate over whether smartphones are going to start competing with laptops for mobile computing functionality, it appears the whole idea is upsetting ...
Learning the value of mobile applications
In The value of mobile applications: a utility company study by Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau, Hong Sheng in Communications of the ACM. Volume 48, Number 2 (2005), Pages 85-90. Mobile and wireless devices are enabling organizations to conduct business more effectively. Mobile applications can be us...
Some facts about the use of i-mode
An interview of Kei-ichi Enoki (one of the driving forces behind the I-mode service from NTT DoCoMo) in CNET News.com: people living in Tokyo, excluding executives, ride trains. But if you go outside Tokyo about 50 kilometers, everyone drives. Fifty percent of Japanese households have two cars. In...
Social Software rules
A french linkedin-like website claims 4 very relevant rules while using Social Software: Don't rush, results are slow to appear No pain, no gain: enter properly the medadata (your description/profile, invite your relevant relations, ... endorsements...) Give to receive: endorse others + answers t...