- Placed iBeacon based app shortcuts
This might be useful, if I finally get around to buying some of those iBeacon kits.
Tag: location
Bookmarks for May 31, 2012
- best practices – What sysadmin things should every programmer know? – Server Fault
This is all good stuff.
- Meshu – Welcome
Personalised jewellery made from location based data, including direct links with Foursquare checkins. Lovely.
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
Er, yes, this exactly.
- Netherlands rejects Acta, and forbids any similar legislation (Wired UK)
Well done, the Dutch. Now we can only hope that our mob of cretins will temporarily locate enough spine to do the same…
Bookmarks for March 18, 2010
- Discovering SpatioTemporal Mobility Profiles of Cellphone Users
In brief: the geographic long tail. 15% of most peoples time is spent in places that they are in less than 1% of their time. People sometimes ask me why I want to start logging my GPS data, even if only privately – it's for this sort of stuff – to work out whether or not I can better optimise my personal possibility jelly. (And if I lost you there, then I suggest you google the term.) I'd like to better track what I'm doing with this 15%, and see if I can't grab some hours back.
Bookmarks for February 20, 2009
- What's going on here then? | StreetWire (beta)
Nice local information service. Must get feed of my local areas.
Bookmarks for February 18, 2009
- Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com
Interesting talk on models for a relationship with creativity. It's a bit hippy dippy in places, but then, her big book is called "Eat, Pray, Love" so what d'you expect? Still, it's worth thinking about for a few interesting lines of argument.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones takes a look at some of the issues surrounding running geolocation based services, and the opportunities they offer us for the future. Particularly pertinent: "location is a matter of routine. We're in work, college, at home, at our corner shop, at our favourite pub. These patterns are worn into our personal maps of the city, and usually it's the exceptions to it that we record, or share – a special excursion, or perhaps a unexpected diversion – pleasant or otherwise that we want to broadcast for companionship, or assistance."