SMS and lecture

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE This sms public display could be of interest for classrooms or university lecture. The system allows users to send text messages from elsewhere, which then appear on a display. -> useful for asking questions to the teacher/lecturer during the course without any interrupt...

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Location-based services

Navigation Technology provides these functionalities :- address search - optimal route genration (fastest, shortest) - preview of entire route - history (saves previously visited cities and streets) - nearest point of interest (POI) search based on current location - self-location - voice and writt...

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j'aime bien les bf15

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I really like the science fiction terminology : all those bhgf435 and low-powered solar supported infrared supra-positrnic ionizer.... so impressive and impossible to understand... that's aprt of the dream :) j'adore la terminologie employee dans les films de sf . tous c...

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Voronoi and Delauney

Via socialfiction :i really like these mathematical constructions that can be generated by this applet. Especially the Voronoi diagram, also called the Thiessen diagram : a set of polygons, each one containing exactly one of the given points, and all other points in the plane which are closer to th...

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The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community

The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community : a workshop organized by Quentin Jones (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Christine Halverson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) in 2002 and 2003 I should check the 2004 edition !! This workshop aims to explore the myriad of ways that: 1. the des...

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idea for the fanzine

You sense that fab [macrofocus] is looking for you in fab's underground lair. [17:14:52]He pages, "pour ton fanzine faudrait mettre des femmes a poils sur des SpeedBrooms. Cool non?" 'fab dans le genre ouais, ca le fait, vu que c toi qui a l'idee tu va participer... ...

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Foo Camp : Geo Stuff

I saw on starhill a wide bunch of new spatial service ideas. The action took place at Foo Camp (FOO standing for "Friends of O'Reilly"), a hackers offsite hosted by Tim O'Reilly and his associates in the orchard behind their offices in Sebastapol, California."First a highly interactive white board ...

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