The paper we wrote (Mauro and me) about IT and urban studies has been accepted: TO LIVE OR TO MASTER THE CITY: THE CITIZEN DILEMMASOME REFLECTIONS ON URBAN SPACES FRUITION AND ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGE ONE'S ATTITUDE. This is about how IT could offer new way to re-appropriate the city. Abstract...
[TheWorld] European Enlargement
EU Numbers: 25, 450 000 000, +75 000 000,Welcome ! ...
(Research) research about habitat!
The creators of Habitat (Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer) now have a blog ! It's really nice to benefit from their experience. Their paper "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat" should be considered as a primer in research about multi-user environment. - A multi-user environment is central to ...
(Research) Augmented Reality Game
NetAttack is a new Augmented Reality game NetAttack "is a new type of indoor/outdoor Augmented Reality game that makes the actual physical environment an inherent part of the game itself." In this game, two teams are fighting to destroy the central database of a virtual big company. Both teams have...
(Research) Notes taken at futuremobile
Quick notes taken at futuresonic mobile connection conference in Manchester. It was really cool to meet people there, especially Marc Tuters, Anne Galloway or Ben Russel ! Thanks Marc for your invitation :) ...
(Space and Place) Derilict London
For people like me who like odd places, check derelict london, it's cool ! ...
(Tech) Searching the semantic web
Now that the semantic web is more real (XML, RDF, FOAF...), let's search into it... with this new tool: semanticwebsearch.com/. ...
(TheWorld) French Statistics about mobile phone use
Parc total des mobiles: 41 940 800 (March 2004) and 38 895 200 (March 2003): +7.9% Parc forfait: 25 007 200 Taux de pénétration: 69,5% Dans le classement par région, l'Ile-de-France, la Corse et la Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur présentent les scores de pénétration les plus significatifs (respectivemen...
[TheWorld] About seller reputation on ebay
The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence from eBay (.pdf) by Luis Cabral and Ali HortacsuNBER Working Paper No. w10363 Issued in March 2004 We propose a basic theoretical model of eBay's reputation mechanism, derive a series of implications and empirically test their validity. Our the...
(Space and Place) From zoomburb to ball pork
Via things magazine, a new vocabulary seemed to appear offered by Dolores Hayden, a professor of architecture, urbanism and American studies at Yale University, as ways to describe aspects of urban sprawl A boomburb, she explained, is a fast-growing suburb. A zoomburb is one that's growing even fa...