Archipelago | URBAGRAM "The City as Social Archipelago is a visualisation & analysis of activity across three cities on the Foursquare social network." Taken from scraped foursquare data. Not particularly inspiring or useful visualisations but the process is interesting. (tags: data foursquare maps social urban visualisation geoweb [...]

Age/profession targeted Digital Identity workbooks A set of workbooks targeted at specific age groups and professions, excerpt: "Your Digital Identity is everything you create on the Web, but also what other people might say about you there. Photographs on social networking sites, logs of chatroom conversations, newspaper articles about your role in a play, [...]

We should all be using free software | Thomas Barfield | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk "Making source codes available would safeguard users from infringements on their freedoms and prevent monopolies" (tags: foss opensource software business computing) Bye-Bye Seymour: Like Any Sensible Narcissist, I'm Locking My Twitter … [...]

Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » When Not To Use Doorknobs "A familiar challenge is to translate the seemingly unyielding demand to put a specific technology into something because it is expected, or because the name of the technology is the new great thing. It doesn’t matter what it is in particular — [...]

Shopkick Kicks Off Automatic Checkins at Retail Locations "Shopkick is a dream come true for location app junkies: A mobile app that will know your whereabouts and will automatically check you in once you’ve arrived at a given location. It’s also a great boon for brands. This kind of auto-checkin eliminates cheating and allows [...]

Attention Economy – Goldhaber (1997) 1st Monday "Attention, at least the kind we care about, is an intrinsically scarce resource [ 4 ]. Consider yours, right now. You are reading this paper, or more likely, since it is intended to be delivered at a conference, listening to me speaking it. You have a certain [...]

Coffee Tasting Terms, Flavor, Body, Acidity and Aroma – Coffee Universe Nice and simple explanations: "While tasting coffee, you should try to discern whether the flavor, body, acidity and aroma of the coffee is pleasant, or unpleasant." (tags: coffee terminology lexicon description) 100 Uses of RFID "Follow ThingMagic’s 100 [...]

Time travel through Bristol on the iPhone | Media | guardian.co.uk Guardian article about the 'Time Travellers' Guide to Bristol': "The Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol project will launch a website later this week and an iPhone app at on July 28, allowing users to browse archive material and upload their own images of [...]

John Underkoffler points to the future of UI | Video on TED.com "Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?" – Lots of superlatives and talk of changing the world, but an [...]

BBC unveils new iPlayer, ITV and Channel 4 getting added BBC iPlayer goes social, with yet another ID for which to register. Features include recommendations, bookmarking across devices and windows messenger integration. (tags: bbc tv video socialnetworking social communication identity innovation media participatory_media)