Dubai saw 20% cut in road crashes when Blackberry was down.

Kevin's instantly classic take down of Augmented Reality, or "stupid reality" as I like to call it.
b/w Greenfield on public space, bare feet, and tetanus shots.

facial recognition techniques to identify leaves. downloading right now.

Your iOs device has been logging your location. This application creates a map of it.

handheld gis mapping for cadastral info. one of very few applications of mobile technology to planning, and a very limited one at that.

woooo technology is going to make everything better and interconnected, and you will be able to walk by a bridge. Lots of good tidbits, but a depressingly shallow analysis of what goes into making cities tick. I'm not surprised that a Nokia employee thinks that outfitting cities with a(nother) new electronic infrastructure is a good idea. And getting novel information from unusual sources is undoubtably a Good Thing. But does it make cities more just/sustainable/beautiful?

'real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. create NO connections by scheduling NO events with other NO friends. NOSOs take place in designated public spaces. Participants remain unknown...'

not_immaterial

love that it's logarithmic

"Loca is a pervasive surveillance project that currently exploits Bluetooth technology. To best participate in the loca project you will need to set bluetooth to ‘discoverable’ on your cell phone."

Inventor of flash mobs 'tells all.' Claims unconvincingly to have planned the fad out. Biting critique of 'scenesterism,' media narratives, etc. If you were in a flash mob, you got punkd.

blog de supaevilai

(yourcellphonenumber)@teleflip.com

a forerunner

Digital Derive harnesses the potential of mobile phones as an affordable, ready-made and ubiquitous medium that allows the city to be sensed and displayed in real-time as a complex, pulsating entity.

a good idea, a clumsy method.

the most commercial of the city tagging enterprises

On dencity.net, you can give virtual extensions to real places

performance in nyc involving walking/talking/multiple locations