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)

You Look Ridiculous: The Other Augmented Reality Issue AR presents interesting user experience design issues [for through the viewfinder type AR] that involve navigating expected norms of behaviour in public. What the critical comments in this article illustrate is that AR is not a one-size-fits-all technical solution. Perhaps it needs to be folded back [...]