Read here (cool primer about social software), the social software mechanisms description. The authors takes AIM as an example. - Identity | Your identity is shown by a screenname, which remains persistent through time. There are incentives not to change this, like having your list of friends store...
[Research] Types of behavior in MUDs
Since lots of research concerning social software could be derived from MUD research, I read this nice paper: "Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs" by Richard Bartle Four approaches to playing MUDs are identified and described. These approaches may arise from the inter-relationsh...
(TheWorld) Leiji Matsumoto is also a boat designer
This boat has been designed by Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Captain Harlock (and then of many spaceships). ...
[MyResearch] Listening to Users for good LBS
Nice take in the feature about how the mobile industry should meet users' needs, written by Michael Hulme of Teleconomy. TheFeature: Don't you think operators are starting to offer attractive and potentially very profitable location services? Hulme: I think they are still far too simplistic. The op...
[Weird] Pictures of the Mandarom Model Destruction
These pictures depict the destruction of a huge statue which depicts the so called god a fake religion (mmmh a sect) in the south of France. This sect used to believe that some aliens invaded Earth few years ago. They tried to kill those aliens (figured as "lemurians with yellow asses") with str...
[Weird] using old game boy as electrocardiograph
A french electronic teacher came up with a cool project that aims to use old game boy as electrocardiograph. He is going to carry out this project with his students in order to give them to Madagascar. The idea is to use them because it is way cheaper. The only modification will be done on the game...
Que faire avec un blog à l'EPFL? Nous avons écrit un article court pour le Flash Informatique qui propose trois scénarios d'utilisation (étudiant, doctorant et enseignant). ...
(Weird) Spam Poetry Applet
Finally we got something, my friend fab programmed a spam poetry software ! The idea is to enter the spam you receive daily and play with the words to make spam poetry. At the moment the vizualisation is pretty cheap but the future development are pretty promising (latent semantic analysis !). ...
(MyResearch) GeoGames on game boy
We already saw that there is a GPS for the game boy.The Feature details the possibilities. Using the inexpensive GameBoy as a platform for non-entertainment applications is a brilliant approach to launch more wireless devices. Perhaps something like PacManhattan could arise from GPS-enabled GameBoy...
(TheWorld) Prison Outsourced Abroad
Read in Le Temps.A new weird concept after the use of privatized army: prison outsourcing, a project in Austria (an maybe in Switzerland): Inspiré par un projet autrichien, Christoph Blocher songe à délocaliser des prisons JUSTICE. En réaction au problème de la surpopulation des geôles et par souci...