Art for good - New York artist asks Londoners how they feel about street crime
June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Profero have teamed up with New York urban artist Paul Notzold to create two events for Channel 4’s Disarming Britain season. The events will show Paul’s work projected onto the side of buildings around London showing images relating to street crime accompanied by questions such as “How can we get weapons off our streets?” encouraging the public’s response. The public are invited to text in their answers which are displayed in real-time alongside the image. The events will be held in Brick Lane on 26th June and Shepherd’s Bush on 27th June between 9:30pm and 11:00pm For more information on Channel 4’s Disarming Britain week click here.
Qik live streaming
January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
I have been watching Charles Frith’s antics in Beijing through his Qik streams, and have been yearning to test this technology myself, and now I can. Qik allows you to stream videos live from your mobile browser directly to web. It is really simple to use and the quality is surprisingly good. One of the best examples of this technology being used so far is to report on current events a la MacWorld where Qikkers streamed the latest product demos from Apple at the event. SMS Text news have also demonstrated it’s great capabilities as a shopping assistant in this post. It’s still in Alpha phase, but i’m really looking forward to seeing this grow over the next few months and for those who are interested, you can follow my streams here.
Second Life calling
December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Second Life developer Linden Labs have created a way for avatars to receive phone calls whilst they are actually in Second Life. Users phone numbers will be connected with their avatars and using the existing voice technology, they will be able to receive calls.
Google launches My Location
November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
Google have today released the details of a new product on their mobile blog called My Location. My Location uses beta technology (as with a lot of Google’s products) that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS. Start Google Maps for mobile, press [0], and the map will indicate your approximate location by centering on a blue circle. This is a great piece of technology when visiting other cities when the lure of sushi is just too much to take.
Stephen Fry on the iPhone
September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I have come across Stephen Fry’s new blog and interesting to see he has dedicated his first post to the SmartPhone. I know Stephen is a bit of a techie anyway and is obviously already a published writer in his own right, but I think you will agree that this is a superb first post. Interestingly Stephen gives an overview of the iPhone that he had shipped over from the US and although he confesses to go mad for all things Apple, he gives a wonderfully honest account of his experience of the phone. Keep your eyes out for this blog.
Plazes personal satellite feed
August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Cross between Socialight and Twitter, Plazes is a new micro blogging platform that enables you to geotag exactly where you are or where you are heading to. This means that rather text your friends to see who is out of an evening, you can actually browse your contacts and see their location. One of the key features is being able to send a text, and the application can pick up your location. The company states “Think of it as your personal satellite feed for your friends and readers of your blog”. I have registered and will be playing with this over the next couple of weeks. Source: PSFK
Spot the Bull
June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
New Orange campaign, Spot the Bull, invites players to guess where Derek (the bull) will find himself at a given time using GPS tracking. There isn’t only a Tom Tom “installed” on the bull, but also every 30 seconds a photo of Derek in the field is taken, while a time stamp gets encoded in the image. The contest is part of Orange’s integrated marketing effort at the Glastonbury Festival: those who spot the bull win tickets for the event. Personally, I’m quite glad that I opted for the old fashioned route of paying for them as I
have better things to do than hunt for a bull, but those who do have some time on their hands I am sure will find this quite amusing.
Solo communicate through bus shelters
May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Text your friend a drink
May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This new site allows you to send a drinks voucher to your friend’s mobile phone that they can then exchange over the bar. Currently this latest craze is only available in New York but will be unfolding here in the latter half of this year, and if some of you want to try it a V&T would be just lovely thank you.
