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SNIFTAG: Dogs can be situated, too.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:08:18 -0400

A way to:

Monitor your dog’s activity while you’re away. Keep in touch with his friends and yours. Share helpful information and pet tips online.

Trailer for MY PLAYGROUND, a new film about Parkour and the...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:55:25 -0400

Trailer for MY PLAYGROUND, a new film about Parkour and the Built Environment, by Danish film maker Kaspar Astrup Schröder. Coming Summer 2009.

Incredible Visuaization of mobile phone activity during the...

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:02:21 -0400

Incredible Visuaization of mobile phone activity during the Obama inauguration. More here: http://senseable.mit.edu/obama/index.html

Open Data from Government

Wed, 27 May 2009 14:58:23 -0400

Open Data from Government:

The open data dams are breaking. An open society must have open data.

The Situated Library

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:20:09 -0400

The Situated Library

Paul Pangaro talks about designing for conversation at the first...

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:06:31 -0400

Paul Pangaro talks about designing for conversation at the first situate.us event held on May 6th in Toronto.

Mr. Wizard for the Internet age

Mon, 04 May 2009 05:44:55 -0400

Mr. Wizard for the Internet age :

Bre Pettis started NYC Resistors as a refuge (perhaps even a church?) for a kind of cult of making.

This video shows the emergence of the dev swarm/community of...

Mon, 04 May 2009 05:41:07 -0400

This video shows the emergence of the dev swarm/community of Ruby on Rails. (via @atomiota)

Wireless Foresight

Sun, 03 May 2009 22:53:41 -0400

Wireless Foresight

re:farm the city

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:46:50 -0400

re:farm the city

newsmap

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:05:54 -0400

newsmap:

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

“in the future we will use our computers in an...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:28:16 -0400

“in the future we will use our computers in an ubiquitous-, maybe even pervasive way. in the attached video, Paul Saffo (Stanford University) and Dr. Michio Kaku give a great overview about ‘how computers might look like’, ‘how we will use them’ and ‘how they will change our day to day life’.

very interesting is the idea of “swallowing” a computer in form of a pill; that analyzes your body from the inside and shares the information with the computer on the outside. just imagine the possibilities for the health care sector.”

- from the blog: version.alpha.0.1

The AlloSphere is an environment for situating investigators...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:43:30 -0400

The AlloSphere is an environment for situating investigators within their data. Conceived by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (a musician/composer), the AlloSphere construct enables the integration of music, sound, visualization, art, navigation and data. Kuchera-Morin refers to the AlloSphere as a microscope, but this decription fais to capture the salient inversion of this device, namely the way it re-situates us in relation to what we know or seek to understand.

Clay Shirky on Situated Software

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:32:03 -0400

Clay Shirky on Situated Software:

Shirky wonders if software that can scale to large demand in large markets represents an outmoded constraint. In an ecology where development costs are dropping to zero and it is easy to create and conceive single-use software: why don’t we? Which begs the question, what does a foundary for single-use, or situated software, look like?

"Learning is not a process of accumulation of representations of the environment; it is a continuous..."

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:33:32 -0400

““Learning is not a process of accumulation of representations of the environment; it is a continuous process of transformation of behavior through continuous change in the capacity of the nervous system to synthesize it. Recall does not depend on the indefinite retention of a structural invariant that represents an entity (an idea, image or symbol), but on the functional ability of the system to create, when certain recurrent demands are given, a behavior that satisfies the recurrent demands or that the observer would class as a reenacting of a previous one.””

- Humberto Maturana

Sentient City Survival...

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:51:36 -0400

Sentient City Survival Kit:

http://www.survival.sentientcity.net/

Robots controlled by brain waves…yeah.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:34:04 -0400

Robots controlled by brain waves…yeah.

iPhone Arphid Demo

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:10:53 -0400

iPhone Arphid Demo

Stewart Brand narrates the BBC series “How Buildings...

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:51:55 -0400

Stewart Brand narrates the BBC series “How Buildings Learn” based on his book of the same name

Matt Jones from Dopplr takes us for a journey on the future of...

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:42:39 -0400

Matt Jones from Dopplr takes us for a journey on the future of cities with some mobile and sensor tech thrown in for good measure.