As said by my friend Cyril, finding a new flat is a good way to discover new areas in your city! Here is a map of new zones I know in Geneva: ...
[Space and Place] D-Day maps
D-Day Maps have finally been declassified: ...
[Tech] RSS+ FOAF (2)
Another article about how RSS and FOAF are intricated. I like this statement: Efimova writes, "What weblogs create is two way awareness. If I read someone's articles online or check personal pages or "know" a person by reading comment in online discussion, in most cases this is one-way "getting to ...
[Research] Collaborative Mapping ideas
This morning we had a nice brainstorm about collaborative mapping. With a low-tech prototype, we tried to sketch out possible uses: recommending system (good/bad), help, threaded discussion, wiki-like (to reach a consensus), reminder system, spam/virus/breakdown, I'm late, anchors (like rave party ...
[Tech] RSS + FOAF is the future
Thanky roby, this paper explains the future of RSS: Another change likely to spread through the RSS world over the next few months is the integration of social networking metadata with RSS content metadata. The popularity of such social networking sites as Friendster and Orkut has shown that there ...
[Research] Ideas that rot
I like this quote taken in cory doctorow's notes from notcon04: "Ideas rot if you don't do something with them. I used to try to hoard them, but they rotted. Now I just blog them or tell people about them. Sometimes they still rot, but sometimes someone finds them useful in one way or another" -- E...
[TheWorld] New acronym: SPIM
According to wordspy: spim n. Unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system. Also: spIM. —spimming pp. —spimmer n. —antispim adj. ...
[Research] Mobile Metadata still...
As usual, I am sorry Mauro for devastating your day by finding research projects that overlap or already did what you want to do in your phd but this is really interesting: Leveraging context for mobile media metadata by Marc Davis , Nathan Good, Risto Sarvas. The recent popularity of mobile camera...
[Space and Place] Internet Café still
Paper about entrepreneurs and Wireless Internet Café, in the NYT, it's difficult to make profit... At cafes, malls and downtown business districts, there has been an explosion of Internet access points, or Wi-Fi hot spots, that let computer users log on to the Internet for free. That growth is a fu...
[TheWorld] Your phd at google :)
Read in the NYT, google's secret weapon might be its manner to encourage its employee to act as researchers... Mostly, Google has concentrated on recruiting those with a background in what you would expect: computer science. Founded by two near-Ph.D.'s who have purposely placed Ph.D.'s throughout t...