fisharepeopletoo

Fairy Tiles

Once upon a time in a very cold country near the North Pole lived a giant called Tuomo, who was taller than the tallest building.

One day, while Tuomo was peering onto the roofs of the highest tower blocks, looking for birds' eggs to eat, he came across an alien who had run out of fuel on his way home to Mars.

"Please don't eat me" said the alien, "I don't taste anything like a bird's egg."

"Very well" said the giant. "Instead, I shall take you back to my workshop near the North Pole and turn you into a...

Dan and Tuomo's TileToy

Society of Friends

More than the sum of the parts?

Green Fingers

Ambient interface

Once Upon A Time

Geoloqus has stickers that you fill in yourself with a web address to visit, on your mobile phone, to find pictures, text and possibly even audio, about the place you found the sticker.

The stickers have nice little teaser lines on them like "Last Saturday night I was standing right here and..." or "Would you like me to share this with your friends?" then the web address is scribbled in underneath.

That seems to me a very open and engaging way of drawing people into the system.

Who Was That Masked Man Anyway?

During a discussion at the PLAN conference someone came up with the phrase "consensus based location" to describe the anywhereblogs / GeoNotes del.icio.us-for-places way of naming to fix location.

I wish I'd said it.

I misremembered the phrase today as "consensus defined location", which is not as good, so I'm grateful to Tom Carden, who writes the Random Etc weblog, for making a note of it.

[I did wonder later if the mysterious hombre who came up with the phrase was taking the piss, and meant to suggest that "consensus based location" was some woolly, tree hugging nonsense, but I don't care, it's too good to let slip.]

[[ I now know that the man who came up with the phrase was Alasdair Turner. He's put some more in the comments, and Mauro Cherubini's Weblog has the first questions about how far it works.

One of the many things I like about "consensus based location" is that it's a nice, slightly subversive play on "location based services".]]