[Locative Media] HERE 0009

HEREgame is a location based game. The website does not seems a lot informative... Some cool pictures anyway attests that it might be a spatial annotation software. ...

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[Locative Media] this list of locative media is flat coz I'm lazy

Compiled the one from paul and elastic space and regine (by Mjriam Struppeck actually). I had no time to put the link, I feel sorry about that. Just wanted to have a flat alphabetical list to be printed on the fly... 34 North 118 West/Active Campus/Altavistas/Annotate space/Annotated Earth/Area Cod...

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[Tech] How aggregation changes web navigation

The digital web magazine has a compelling paper about how "Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content". They present a "distributed navigation view" opposed to the previous "on-site navigation view" (“home page as the starting point” paradigm): users navigate completely outside t...

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[VideoGames] Lack of innovation in mobile games

I fully agree with Greg Costikiyan's column in Gamasutra about mobile games. He claims that business models killed innovation, even though there are strong technological potential (presence-detection, lbs...). I got interested in mobile games five years ago, when cell phones capable of supporting g...

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[Research] Design requirements for location aware community systems

Paper presented at CSCW 2004: Putting Systems into Place: A Study of Design Requirements for Location-Aware Community Systems by Samer Karam, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Quentin Jones, Loren Terveen and Steve Whittaker. What's is funny here is that they look at supporting lcoation-awareness in different ...

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[Locative Media] IFTF Geoweb experiment in the Feature

Howard Rheingold briefly describes some concept about the geoweb in the Feature as well as telling us the story of geo-freak Mike Liebhold. It also deals with standards to be chosen for the geoweb. At the beginning of the two-day Geoweb and Deep Place Fall Exchange organized by the Institute for th...

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[Weird] Ugly Tools for women

Freelax (the name is I think a bit disconnected to the reality) is new tool to "allow women to pee standing". It is ugly of course: It seems that there is a competitor which is called "TravelMate™ non-invasive urinary devices" with the same purpose: I really like this kind of quotes. When market...

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