Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 16th, 2008
As planned, yesterday, Roland and I strapped N-series phones to our bikes, pulled along a wi-fi/WiMAX equipped trailer, and performed Le Tour Des Car Free Fests. As my Sportstracker data indicates (in two segments), we managed to visit three of the four main sites for Vancouver's Car Free Day.
Nokia Sportstracker ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, DTES, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, events, freethenet.ca, mobile, video, wi-fi | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Today we tested our live streaming video and GPS tracked bike commutes, this time using a third bike to pull the wifi mesh/wimax trailer.
I worked for about an hour this morning assembling the mounting clamps for the two phones on two bikes. Both worked very well and withstood many bumps. ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, Mobile Muse, culture & society, freethenet.ca, mobile, video, wi-fi | 3 Comments »
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Today Roland and I mounted our Nokias (running Qik and Nokia Sportstracker Beta) on our bike helmets and rode around False Creek (see this map of our route, and see my Qikstream here). Due to rain, Scott (who was to supply our connectivity on a third bike, pulling a trailer ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, freethenet.ca, mobile, technology, video, wi-fi | 7 Comments »
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Hey - a plug for current doings at my day job, which is admittedly a pretty sweet gig...but I also thought some of you might be totally keyed up for this sort of thing...
Mobile Muse has issued an Open Call for Prototype proposals in the area of mobile applications that ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Swinging the pendulum from the ridiculous to the merely trite, the archiving project rears its desperate head this week with a glimpse at Verona, the predecessor band to Decora/A Spectre Is Haunting Europe. This recording comes from my days recording demos in the basement of The Abbey, the shared house ...
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