links for 2009-03-19

Citysense is a downloadable application for the iPhone and BlackBerry. It provides a heat map of GPS activity in a major city. Maps show red patches that indicate higher activity, the user’s location (a solid yellow dot) and suggest popular destinations (yellow circles).

(tags: technology mobile maps iphone gps advertising urban urbancomputing socialsoftware cartography)

The Social Technologies Summit at futuresonic in May this year has amongst the speakers: Adam Greenfield, Jamais Cascio and Usman Haque.

(tags: conference futurism technology participatory_media socialsoftware socialnetworking UK)

Howard interviewed at 'Frontiers of Interaction' giving a broad commentary on the futures of social media and civic/social participation through an increasingly mobile set of social media technologies.

(tags: future futurism internet vision socialnetworking participatory_media technology socialsoftware)

"Dennis Crowley, one of the original developers of Dodgeball, has released a new location-aware social app for the iPhone: Foursquare. At its core, Foursquare is a location-based social network, but at the same time, it is also a nightlife game where users get extra points for being the first to visit a new place, going out every night of the week, and for adding new information about clubs and restaurants."

(tags: mobile socialnetworking socialsoftware iphone urban urbancomputing participatory_media)