Blogs, trackback and google

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Google and weblogs don't fit well... Via the register : "A "Trackback" is an auto-citation feature that allows solitary webloggers to feel as if they are part of a community. It's a cunning trick that allows the reader to indicate that they've read a weblog entry, or as ...

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The Laws of Online World Design

Found this : laws of virtual world design with rules like :- The ultimate goal of a virtual world is to create a place where people of all styles of play can contribute to the world in a manner that makes the game more satisfying for everyone. - Once you open your online world, expect to keep your ...

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librairies parisiennes

cool drift in paris, especially while passing by few smart bookshops : Paralelle, Un regard moderne, Album... I then moved to Reims... discovering la marne :) ...

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Features of physical rooms

Via : Greenberg S. and Roseman, M. (2003). Using a Room Metaphor to Ease Transitions in Groupware. In M. Ackerman, V. Pipek, V. Wulf (Eds) Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management, 203-256, January, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. A room metaphor is a particular type of spatial model whose features...

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fear, emptiness, despair

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Here is a map of the place where I work : the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne. I carefully removed all the buildings. Just remains : paths, roads, car parks and bus/metro line. So now the point is : what remains is not what is was BEFORE the bulding of the inst...

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M.Sayyid "Outside the box"

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE M.Sayyid (former AntiPop Consortium singer) will release his solo EP"Outside the box" on Sound Ink. Tracklisting: 01. The ills (prod. M.Sayyid) 02. Countless amounts of heat (prod. cx Kidtronik) 03. All the lights ft. High Priest (prod. Heat Sensor) 04. Trust me (prod. M...

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Research Meeting

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Notion of virtual landmark : adding information (asynchronous awareness) to a place. "I've been here". We have to find a task in which objects are tracked on a field... Mine ? Participants should need the information in context (just in time, just in place).The coordinat...

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A Role Playing Game at Telecom 03

Next saturday, at the Telecom2003 event, there may be a new kind of "real" Role Playing Game ! Something in-between role playing games and a flash mob happening ! The idea is that participants plays the role of multinational high-tech agents, infiltrated in a cutting-edge technology event where the...

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Work to check

People like me interested in space and wireless applications should check the work of Steve Benford. In particular, a series of experience projects engage with different user communities to develop new combinations of physical and digital worlds and how explore these may be exploit enhance the qual...

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