Archive for the ‘mobile’ Category
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
"Expensive phones are like an enormous test phase, but budget phones are the true launch pad for a mobile technology."
Well said. Read the rest at All About Symbian. It's exciting to see the trickle of smart phone functionality into lower end handsets. Perhaps Nokia's actually been listening to its participatory ...
Posted in appropriation, critical constructivism, design, marketing, mobile, political economy | No Comments »
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 | 5 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Just two days before I posted at Mobile Muse about social media mashups around health information, Google announced their Health API and Health Data API. So it looks as though some of the pieces are already in place for the development of tools for managing health information on a personal ...
Posted in Mobile Muse, culture & society, cyborgs, health, mobile, technology | No Comments »
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, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, SCOT, culture & society, mobile, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »
Monday, April 28th, 2008
I had the opportunity last week to present my ongoing research into user-centered technology design (which is what is evolving out of my ethnographic research in the lives of mobile handset users) as part of a panel all about Mobile Muse (where I'm the Program Manager, for those who aren't ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Mobile Muse, PhD studies, SCOT, STS, conferences, critical constructivism, ethnography, mobile, work | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in DTES, Fearless City, Mobile Muse, Whistler, art, culture & society, mobile | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I've finally taken the plunge into Drupal on the label/company page. I haven't had much need for a main company URL or site, so I'm going to use it as a 'social media' (is there such thing as an 'antisocial' medium?) sandbox - essentially an experiment in multiple feed aggregation ...
Posted in blogs, content aggregation, design, drupal, mobile, music, open source, social web | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
We had a whirlwind day of great presentations (and challenging deliberations) at the MUSE3 Showcase Forum last Friday, at SFU Harbour Centre. Embedded at right is the first of these presentations, from the Fearless City group. To view the rest of the, go to my blip page.
This video was ...
Posted in creative industries, culture & society, events, mobile, video | No Comments »
