Let's use plink ! PLINK gets all its user data from 'FOAF' (Friend-of-a-Friend) files which anyone can add to their web site.FOAF files are machine readable (XML) text files that you can use to describe basic information about yourself and the people you know. Anyone can create a FOAF file quite si...
[Semantic Web] Ressources en francais
La communauté francophone web sémantique est plutôt bien en phase avec l'actualité. Le wiki websemantique.org est particulièrement actif dans le domaine, notamment en ce qui concerne les émanations les plus courantes que sont RSS et RDF ou encore FOAF. Le site propose des ressources abordables, fa...
[MyResearch] Research Meeting
Notes taken at the meeting with my phd advisor: Main topic of my phd: study of collaboration and collaborative processes (CSCW, in mobile settings) -> We want to investigate whether and how spatial information (location?) impacts ONE collaborative processes which is Mutual Modeling (also called int...
[Space and Place] Now it is time for re-territorialization
I like what Marc expresses in Theorizing the Radical Potential of Location-Aware Mobiles. With the development of communications technologies we have witnessed the progressive de-localization of information.- Where people once required a definitive "here" to receive information, communication advan...
[Prospective] Sherry Turkle in Harvard Business Review
I think I missed this paper from Sherry Turkle in the Harvard Business Review: Technology and Human Vulnerability (2003): or most of the last 50 years, technology knew its place. It's very different today. Technology is not only ubiquitous but has become highly intrusive as well. On the Internet, p...
[Weird] More about Massively multiplayer thumbwrestling
Last week, boingboing mentionned this nice new Massive Multiplayer game: Massively multiplayer thumbwrestling. Check the rules. The website proposes a discussion board with impressive topic: - Why not try and organise a massively multiplayer thumb war flash mob? - injuries - other possible networke...
[Research] Paper about users needs for location based services
Eija Kaasinen, (2003). User needs for location-aware mobile services Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1,pp. 70 - 79 Mobile contexts of use vary a lot, and may even be continuously changing during use. The context is much more than location, but its other elements are still difficult t...
(VideoGame) Usability Methods for Game Design
Microsoft Playtest group proposes nice publications and talks on their website. The MGS User-testing Group has been pioneering the adaptation of usability and psychological testing to the entertainment software field. Their mission is to improve games with consumer feedback using controlled researc...
(Tech) Social Software as good old fashioned family tree
While reading anne, I was wondering about whether people who work on social software already transferred some ideas from the family tree domain... I like the idea she mentionned about her discussion concerning the "potential of social software for dead people." Family Tree visualization is also an ...
[Weird] How to annoy animal lovers
If you needs tips about this crux issue "how to annoy animal lovers", go check: badmovies.org. They do provide us with nice ideas! - Electrify all fire hydrants within a 5 mile radius of your home. - Dig a moderately deep hole in victim's back yard. Place in the bottom a half uncovered plastic repl...