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Check out Dart Mail,( video) -- RFID snail mail.. pretty cool, sounds like a fun project.

Phone tags? The UK is kinda big on this stuff I think.  At least awhile back they had resource after resource enabling people hear mp3s thru a phone system from multiple dj magazines, and now this, which is kinda like a service from Sony awhile back, listen to the radio and then click a button on this little device and it tells you who that artist was etc. 

This is an excellent video demonstration of Locus:ExperimentalSocialInterface.  Check that out, thats awesome.  Wait a sec.. what is Locus?

Locus is an instant messanger, social experiment, and art piece that is built on the premise that you are how you act. 

By examining how you and your friends talk with each other, Locus automatically tries to find likenesses between your friends.  You can then see these potential relations mapped out for you!  You can watch your social web grow as you speak.

And trying out Locus is simple, Locus adapts to your life.  There's none of this "Ask all your friends to join" nonsense, Locus lets you use your pre-existing instant messanger accounts.  AOL? ICQ? MSN? Yahoo?  No problem!
Hmmm, seems Etech or ETCON that whole Emerging Tech conference this year is done, over, ended, next, move on.. and as for the talks and what not, I get the sense theres a big "user experience" side of things happening there this year. 
 
Some notes from Reemer.com on etech, like: basecamp, the I rule experience, wisdom of crowds, o'reilly factor, final notes.
 
WAnna make something?  iFabricate it..
 
The other day, I wrote to the Blogjet folks are requested that they implement tags into the software.  Somehow make it easier for me to do.  Currently to take advantage of the web I need to invest more of my time to be tagged properly.  I think in order for all this to really take off, the user needs to get time back.  Less time learning to communicate, and more time communicating and moving on.  But until then I'm going to be playing around with tags.

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Posted by dan on March 18, 2005 03:26 PM |