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An in-car GPS or an eBook reader

Posted December 3rd, 2007 at 10:29 am. There are 0 comments.

That is the answer to the question: When is a phone not a phone?

Items like the Dash, an in car GPS based on the OpenMoko Project, and Amazon’s Kindle, the much maligned ebook reader, both use cellular phone technology in decidedly non-phone ways.

Ultimately, in an open telecommunications world, we’ll use whatever means we can to connect to the network, finding the best combination of features and price to deliver services that could never have been considered in a world where a phone was just a phone.

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Posted December 1st, 2007 at 8:33 pm. There are 0 comments.

one of the greatest things made at the eyebeam hackfest. or greatest evar maybe.

The design of the iPhone is such that all other mobile…

Posted November 30th, 2007 at 4:01 pm. There are 0 comments.

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The design of the iPhone is such that all other mobile phones, including those released after the iPhone, look not only old but antiquated and even defective. IMO.

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OpenAerialMap Is Ready For Your Data

Posted November 30th, 2007 at 3:57 pm. There are 0 comments.

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By Brady Forrest

san diego fires aerial imagery

OpenAerialMap is a site for collecting, hosting, and mapping freely available aerial imagery. The project comes at a good time. There is increasing interest in DIY aerial imagery. DIY Drones is a community started by Chris Anderson for aerial imagery enthusiasts. Commercial venture Pict’Earth offer aerial imagery systems that includes their custom geopositioning software. And of course Make has had a project for aerial photography via a kite for a while.

You can view any uploaded imagery set on a map. You can apply an OpenStreetMap layer if desired. Current sets include: Burning Man 2007, Afghanistan, San Diego 2003, and the San Diego Widlfires of 2007 (pictured above).

Anyone can register as a datasource. You can then upload and geoposition your imagery using the site’s tools. Though the project idea has been around for a while it was only recently put together by Chris Schmidt, an OpenLayers (Radar post) contributor and MetaCarta (Radar post) employee. Chris has made the site’s code available.

Why is the project necessary? Though the imagery that Google, Microsoft, and others make freely available is excellent in its quality and coverage, you are only able to use it under their terms. This project makes imagery fully available and in one place. Also it can take 6 months or longer for an area to have its imagery updated on the larger sites – in the case of certain events you may want to capture a change now. I would love to see this project scale out like Open Street Map has, but that will take a while as the barrier to volunteer is much higher.

Chris Anderson will be talking about his work with DIY Drones at ETech in 2008. DIY Aerial Imagery is going to be a big theme at Where 2.0 2008.

four short films by gordon matta clark

Posted November 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm. There are 0 comments.

I have long loved the work of matta clark. In architecture school he came to be one of the most important architects in my mind. I obsessed over his active making of architectural work and absorbed much influence from him. Ubuweb has 4 short films available for view and download.

The pair quickly became friends and when Louboutin wanted to push the notion of extreme fetish in his work, by creating shoes and then playing with their creative representation in two-dimensional images, it was clear Lynch would be the man to translate his vision.