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NYT: New Subway Math May Bring Windfall of Spare Change to Transit System
What I call "the MetroCard float" is here acknowledged, even thought of as something to be exploited by MTA.
(nyc)  transit  economics  everyware2ndedition 
december 2007 by Urbanscale
NYT: The Cabby Takes Plastic, or at Least Is Supposed To
A vivid seam or faultline, and the infinite ingenuity people can devote to friction and resistance when informatic technology gets contested.
(nyc)  everyware  everyware2ndedition  ubicomp  economics  taxis  urbancomputing 
december 2007 by Urbanscale
The Morning News: The Laptop Club
Wonderful. Children's lo-fi "laptops" explain soooo much.
folkdesign  interface  everyware2ndedition 
november 2007 by Urbanscale
Oakland Crimespotting
"Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities."
crime  maps  oakland  urbancomputing  everyware2ndedition 
august 2007 by Urbanscale
LUCI Blog: Ubi-Soda
"We have been infiltrated by the thing everyone saw coming but no one really wants - ubiquitous computing ads."
advertising  ubicomp  everyware  everyware2ndedition 
april 2007 by Urbanscale
Proactive Displays
"...are large computer displays augmented with sensors that can detect people nearby and show content relating to those people."
ubicomp  everyware  everyware2ndedition  urbancomputing  joemccarthy  screens 
april 2007 by Urbanscale
pasta and vinegar: code/space by Rob Kitchin
An important taxonomy here that I need to think about, and will not have time to for at least a week.
ubicomp  everyware  everyware2ndedition  tothinkabout 
march 2007 by Urbanscale
Reality Mining: Sensing Complex Social Systems
The kind of machine inference I tend to mistrust, applied to the evocation of social networks &c.
everyware2ndedition  ubicomp  sociology  mobile 
february 2007 by Urbanscale
In London, you're never more than 10 feet from a program
Lots I actually don't agree with here, but interesting nonetheless. Via migurski.
rfid  london  LHR  everyware2ndedition 
january 2007 by Urbanscale
Spalogue : a public bath in the age of ubiquitous computing
Hard to tell if they do it at all well, but I'm glad to see someone at least acknowledging the element of sexuality in the mundane
everyware2ndedition 
january 2007 by Urbanscale
The NYC Mobile Trial, "evaluating the speed and convenience that contactless payments can provide to our valued customers" (!)
In which NYC begins to catch up with the rest of the world, with the "assistance" of Cingular, MasterCard and Citibank. Via Timo.
(nyc)  everyware2ndedition  everyware  urbancomputing  mobile  rfid  nfc  retail 
january 2007 by Urbanscale
chipple.net: Pasmo explained
Explaining Tokyo's new touch-and-go transit card. Seems unwieldy at first pass, and at second - but at that, still lightyears ahead of NYC.
tokyo  NRT  everyware  everyware2ndedition  rfid  usability  transit 
january 2007 by Urbanscale

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