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Geocaching and location-based services at Drop.io -- a very cool hack
Drop.io now allows you to attach location data to individual drops, and people have started using them as geocaching tools. Very cool idea.
blogclip, cool, drop.io, location, ubicomp saved by: nbr more details ...
http://drop.io/blog/asset/location-based-drops-as-private-and-dynamic-geocaching-log-books
New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your Cellphone - New York Times
Not new, but a good article nonetheless.
cool, mobile, news, phone, semacode, ubicomp, viafriendfeed saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/business/01code.html?ei=5124
Interactive 'sound map' lets you hear New Orleans online - Maria Montoya - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
About http://www.opensoundneworleans.com . Seen in RAPatton's Friendfeed stream.
audio, map, mashup, new_orleans, toread, ubicomp, viafriendfeed saved by: nbr more details ...
http://blog.nola.com/mariamontoya/2008/08/new_interactive_sound_map_puts.html
GeoGraffiti
Free verbal message board for exchanging location-specific community information.
audio, check_this_out, cool, geotagging, local, location, map, mashup, mobile, phone, More... saved by: btocher and 3 people more details ...
http://www.geograffiti.com
[murmur] - hear you are
A collaborative art project in which specific places are "tagged" with audio messages. You're walking through town and you see a "murmur" sign, you call the appropriate phone number and l...
art, city, cool, places, social, ubicomp saved by: nbr more details ...
http://murmurtoronto.ca
eRuv: A Street History in Semacode
city, local, semacode, social, ubicomp saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.dziga.com/eruv/index.php
semacode | URL barcodes | practical ubiquitous computing
The original semacode site.
local, semacode, social, ubicomp saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.semacode.org
34 NORTH 118 WEST
An art project attaching historical documents and artworks to buildings in one L.A. city block.
art, local, places, ubicomp, vianitle saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.34n118w.net
RAND | Documented Briefings | Swarming and the Future of Conflict
From the site: "Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured ... way to perform military strikes from all directions."
research, social, ubicomp, vianitle saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB311
Information in places - J.C. Spohrer
I haven't read this yet ...
local, places, research, ubicomp, vianitle saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/384/spohrer.txt
Google Earth as a surival tool in Iraq
Google Earth used by ordinary Sunni Baghdadis in Iraq to figure out ways of evading and avoiding Shia militias and Interior Ministry patrols.
international, iraq, news, software, ubicomp, war saved by: nbr more details ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6357129.stm
nowthen: Twitter-like presence stream for your cameraphone
I really like both Twitter and tumblr (twitter.com, tumblr.net). This seems more like Twitter -- a continuously updateable, shareable, social "status stream" that uses images and SMS from...
blogging, microblogging, mobile, moblog, photo, photosharing, tools, twitter, ubicomp, vialibraryclips, More... saved by: nbr and 2 people more details ...
http://www.nowthen.com/home
Google Maps director on "the geoweb"
Google's Maps and Earth teams have a blog. This first post is a kind of quick glimpse into their thinking on maps and location-based computing (call it "the geoweb" or "where 2.0" or "ear...
2.0, blogclip, maps, posttumblr, social, ubicomp, viameshly, web saved by: nbr more details ...
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-world-unfolding.html