Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Jan 3, 2006 – Jan 10, 2006
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Jan 10, 2006
Turbulence recently announced a Call for Entries for its “New England Initiative II,” a juried, networked art competition.
art technologyDesign Art Technology
Jan 10, 2006
Dive into 'Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories' and discover how mapping evolves in our digital age. This compilation features contributions from historians, designers, and cultural critics, showcasing innovative uses of technology to chart new terrains of social networks and urban landscapes. With an emphasis on collective mapping and new representations of spatial data, the book challenges traditional notions of territory and invites readers to rethink their relationship with space. Immerse yourself in a world where maps are reimagined, and the art of navigation is transformed into a vibrant dialogue of creativity.
cartographymappingmapswriting
Jan 09, 2006
So, next month I’ll be attending Lift — check it out! If you can, I’d recommend attending. The list of attendees insures that this’ll be a great one. It’s cheap, compared to other conferences that can run $1000US+, easily.
General
Jan 09, 2006
This just in, for Pervasive 2006 – 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing May 07-10, 2006 The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland.
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Jan 04, 2006
Never too early to plan on waiting until the last minute to submit something for Ubicomp 2006! The general announcement just went out. I’ll be serving as co-chair for Demonstrations this year, and it will be fairly “local”, down in Irvine, California.
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Jan 04, 2006
Sometimes the “convergence” of technical idioms becomes comic in a kind of ironic way. Like, you can see a few wonks noodling about Web2.0 and then they’re, like..trying to predict a trend and, Hollywood-style, say, “Wait just a minute! Web2.0 meets Mobile! MobileWeb2.0 — get it? It’s like Web2.0, only it’s Mobile…
mobilemobile social softwareweb2.0General
Jan 04, 2006
This may be completely old news, but I just stumbled across retrievr.
flickrGeneral
Jan 03, 2006
Bones In Motion another, another LBS application, this one falls into the health/fitness/nutrition idiom, similar to motionbased (recently purchased by Garmin). There’s scant info on their webpage — probably still in beta? – but the idea is to accumulate your track logs using a GPS-enabled mobile handset (there’s…
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Jan 03, 2006
Stumbled across another mobile stuff blog: http://mobile.kaywa.com/ where I found a dispatch about (another) LBS application. This one is intriguing in that it tries to find things that you might be interested in based on things that other people have done nearby.
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