Plazes is a (yet another) social software based on your location. Plazes is a new kind of service offering information and interaction with people and PlaZes based on your current location. The idea is, that you are where you are connected. Plazes works without GPS or any kind of other devices and...
[Weird] WMV video played in ascii
I was wondering if is was possible to watch a .wmv like an ascii file. An ascii file every 17ms and then we can have an horrible ascii-movie... ...
[Weird] A cryptic message found in the geneva tram
Definetly useless: ...
[Space and Place] Social meaning of space
Andy Crabtree (2000) Journal of Mundane Behavior. Remarks on the social organisation of space and place Human conduct is always situated in a particular space or place yet little is understood about the social organisational relationship between space, place and conduct. In pursuing a sociological ...
Bad news: no rss4you talk athe FOAF workshop
Unfortunately, we won't be able to make it for the FOAF workshop. Our paper about rss4you was accepted but for various reasons (I am relocating) it's impossible for us to go there, gosh, I feel ashamed with this :( ...
[Research] About the Can You See Me Now? evaluation
Crabtree, A. (2003) Informing the Evaluation of Can You See Me Now? in Rotterdam: Runners' and Control Room Work. (.pdf) Technical Report Equator-03-004, Equator. Can You See Me Now? (Flintham et al. 2003) is a mixed reality mobile game where online players are chased and captured by runners locate...
[MyResearch] Virtual Environment to study social psychology
Blascovich, J., Loomis, J., Beall, A., Swinth, K., Hoyt, C., & Bailenson, J.N. (in press). Immersive virtual environment technology as a methodological tool for social psychology Historically, at least three methodological problems have dogged experimental social psychology: the experimental contro...
[Weird] The famous duct-taped tape
This is a new summer that germinated during today's lunch: THE DUCT-TAPED TAPE THAT MIGHT BE A MIX TAPE: ...
[Prospective] Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices
Geek stuff for the future: Resonantware: Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers. The design is really nice. NEC designers have created design possibilities with near future paradigms in mind: the world where humans and machines resonate with one another. We propose device...
[Space and Place] Office in a bucket
inflate provides a nice solution for inflatable offices. (Sorry for the numbers on the picture) ...