Tag archive for ‘ubicomp’
Communication Convergence
In the past 12 months, many things have happened. The world has seen an unprecendented global shakedown of financial services, America welcomed in a black president, a well respected and seasoned newspaper filed for bankrupcy, and the catch phrase “chk chk boom!” entered the Australian vocabulary. Just to name a few. And every one of the events of the past 12 months has been recorded, distributed, discussed and discovered on the interwebs.
Interactive billboard
This is something I’ve not seen before, at least not in Sydney. In Pitt St Mall, NAB (a bank in Australia) have erected a billboard on the back of a public telephone, that invites users to interact with it. I probably paid closer attention to it than I usually would, as one of my colleagues [...]
maps.google.com.au
Ahhh, my life is now complete… now I can search for coffee shops in Sussex St without leaving the office! That will make life soo much easier Seriously though (as I remove my tongue from my cheek), I feel like we are getting to some kind of mapping nirvana, a synergy of place that didn’t [...]