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Open Mobile, as it happens

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

It was fun setting up to Brian Eno's Music for Films, which cast an alternately serene and ominous shadow over our dry runs with the 3 screens. I think the keynote went over well. The tech worked out supremely, with all 3 screens going, SIFT aggregation, Movino, ...

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Open Mobile

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I'm presenting a keynote this Sunday for an event called Open Mobile, presented in part by Mobile Muse as part of New Forms Festival 2008. I'm co-presenting with Roland Tanglao and Jesse Scott (artist info here), who will be my visual accompanists. But hopefully their visuals will override and scramble ...

Posted in conferences, culture & society, events, Fearless City, mobile, Mobile Muse, open source, political economy, technology, theory, Whistler, wi-fi | 4 Comments »

Mobile Videobiking at Car Free Vancouver

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, events, Fearless City, freethenet.ca, GPS, LBS, mobile, Mobile Muse, video, wi-fi | 2 Comments »

Car V Bike Pretest 0.2

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, culture & society, Fearless City, freethenet.ca, GPS, mobile, Mobile Muse, video, wi-fi | 3 Comments »

Car V. Bike pre-test :: Nokia Sportstracker and Qik

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, freethenet.ca, GPS, LBS, mobile, Mobile Muse, technology, video, wi-fi | 7 Comments »

Real time GPS tracking on the Nokia N95

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its diligent, brainless constancy, I subjugate my running activity ...

Posted in Actor network theory, Car Free Vancouver, culture & society, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, mobile, Mobile Muse, SCOT, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »

A Tale of Two Cities

Monday, April 7th, 2008

In my role at MUSE3 I'm coordinating a couple of related mobile technology projects in Whistler and Vancouver's Downtown East Side that lend themselves well to the "Tale of Two Cities" theme. While there are some interesting parallels between the Dickens novel of the same name and these two contemporary ...

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