September 2009
1 post
New Cartographer no longer updated →
but I will continue to post similar items to my personal tumblr at http://tumblr.iamdanw.com
May 2009
5 posts
Typologies from the New Cartographic Explosion →
April 2009
24 posts
Arduinometer, anyone? →
An arduino project to make monitoring electricity, gas and water meters easy
WatchStunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
Every Building with a Shoebox in it’s Basement →
Buildings could offer WiFi photo uploading service, in return for keeping the photos taken of them.
WatchiPhone RFID: object-based media
WatchOpenID: Logging into Dopplr with Rabbits - Some brilliant RFID magic that let’s you ‘tap’ to log in to openID (via Gareth)
The tweeting house →
As part of Appril I set up my house to tweet it’s electricity consumption
Egg Box QR Code Shows the Hens That Laid Them →
WatchSome of the best (& worst) examples of the Mobile Web, by @razorfish (via salimv)
rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn't hurt... →
RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link elemen
WatchBuild Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer
Extending Albion’s Oven →
Remember the bakery that tweets when fresh food is ready? Well this little hack builds upon it:
I’ve put together an app which takes the feed from Albion’s Twitter account, checks for updates, filters them (I’m only really interested in bread), and if (according to Fire Eagle) I’m within a mile of the bakery, sends me an SMS.
WatchTwitterplug - Tweet your home or office energy usage
WatchTinkerKit Regista / A software infrastructure for smart spaces
WatchHomeCamp ‘08
WatchBaker Tweet - My local bakey now tweets when fresh tasty stuf is ready thanks to this awesome arduino device. I’m going to end up popping in far too often now.
“much like CDs in the CDDB, AMEE has discovered that the energy fluctuations of...”
– Five Technologies Tim O’Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0
March 2009
45 posts
“As ideal as XMPP sounds for real-time notifications, it lacks the simplicity and...”
– Gnip drops XMPP but keeps Web Hooks
WatchGreenhalgh Et Al Ubicomp07 - I find the idea of this EQUIP2 framework intriguing and am tempted to create something along these lines, only not in java. Possibly featuring webhooks, mqtt or protocol buffers
WatchReally Interesting Group
Really Interesting Group is a multi disciplinary organisation working in post digital design. Ben and Russell will be talking about Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet. TOFHWOTI is a collection of things from the internet we thought would work well on paper. We made it into a newspaper and had it printed with a limited edition run of 1,000.
WatchJyri Engström talks about Nodal Points
WineM →
Take a wine rack and combine with some RFID magic and you get this incredible wineM - You can monitor your wine consumption and search your wine library!
WatchPicnic08: Internet of Things: Mike Kuniavsky
Adventures with a Nabaztag - wifi enabled rabbit! →
When anyone hits my homepage, the script sends a message to my Nabaztag, which randomly moves it’s ears, makes a noise and speaks the city and country of the visitor
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Watchthedailywhat:
Microsoft employee Ian Hanschen had an old-school sign on his door telling people he was busy. With this being the future and all, he eventually decided to replace it with this nifty little device that shows his current status using MSN Messenger icons.
Specs:
4d systems OLED display w/4DGL microcode “interpreter”, 461 bytes of instructions to read serial data (tied to the ftdi...
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Transport for London releases 'public feeds' →
However they’re only a limited number of data sets and they’re actually kml files, not feeds, that you have to ask nicely for permission to use.
WatchTim Berners-Lee on the next Web
PICNIC08, Directories and Protocol Buffers →
The unifying pattern here is:
Create a service that runs on a number of devices
Create a central phonebook so that those devices can find each other
Create a distributed phonebook that is as distributed as the devices it indexes
Tabs, Pads, and Boards (and Dots) →
It would be difficult to name a more influential article written in the last 20 years in HCI or Interaction Design than the late Mark Weiser’s The Computer for the 21st Century. Starting with its now-infamous first sentence (”The most profound technologies are those that disappear.”), the article has had a profound impact on how we think about computers and, really, about the future itself.
“It’s like asking me to list all the ways electricity informs the life of the...”
– Adam Greenfield in response to the question “How do you see the near-future city working with ubiquitous computing”
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