Puma Solar Phone
Puma is set to launch a solar-powered phone in a few days. The solar panel is integrated into the back of the phone. Rather than plugging it in at night, you have to leave it on the window sill during the day.
The promotion page is here.
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| Posted: 2/24/10 12:19 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Cell Phone Data Visualized
It is not often that a study like this makes it into a journal like Science.
“A range of applications, from predicting the spread of human and electronic viruses to city planning and resource management in mobile communications, depend on our ability to foresee the whereabouts and mobility of individuals, raising a fundamental question: To what degree is human behavior predictable? Here we explore the limits of predictability in human dynamics by studying the mobility patterns of anonymized mobile phone users. By measuring the entropy of each individual’s trajectory, we find a 93% potential predictability in user mobility across the whole user base. Despite the significant differences in the travel patterns, we find a remarkable lack of variability in predictability, which is largely independent of the distance users cover on a regular basis.”
The whole article is available here:Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility — Song et al. 327 (5968): 1018 — Science
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Tags: activity recognition, paper published, Science (Journal), visualization |
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| Posted: 2/24/10 10:45 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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FourSquare HeatMap
“CheckoutCheckins allows you to create a heat map of your Foursquare checkins. Once you log-in to the map with your Foursquare account it uses the places you’ve been to generate maps, charts, graphs, and stats.
CheckoutCheckins plots your last 50 entries using Google Maps and overlays a heat map of your most recent activity. The site also produces pie charts that provide a graphic presentation of your most often visited locations.”
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Tags: foursquare, interactive visualization, visualization |
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| Posted: 2/23/10 1:22 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Two sites that automate the process of removing yourself from the Internet
web 2.0 suicide machine
Web 2.0 suicide machine: “Tired of your Social Network?
“Liberate your newbie friends with a Web2.0 suicide! This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our service currently runs with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and LinkedIn! Commit NOW!”
seppukoo
seppukoo:”You are more than your virtual identity”
«Virtual life» is an – often – abused term used to describe the whole of one person online activities. But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life – and vice-versa – the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming, more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where’s the real? Beyond all those questions only a fact remains: that our privacy, our profiles, our identities, our relationships, they are all – fake and/or real – entirely exploited for a sole purpose: to be sold as a product. But are those lives really worth to be experienced?”
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Tags: facebook, japan, LinkedIn, myspace, social networks, twitter |
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| Posted: 2/17/10 3:44 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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“More a social statement than an actual utility for aspiring Colton Harris-Moore* copycats, a new site called Please Rob Me has popped up to expose the potential pratfalls of the geolocation craze: If you’re pushing a “check-in” from Gowalla, Brightkite, or Foursquare to a local restaurant out to your public Twitter stream, you’re broadcasting that you aren’t home. Which could be taken to mean that your home is ripe for burglary.”
Read more:
The dark side of geo: PleaseRobMe.com | The Social – CNET News
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Tags: BrightKite, foursquare, geolocation, Gowalla, mobile app, mobile phone, social networks, twitter |
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| Posted: 2/17/10 11:56 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Photo courtesy of fernandopelillo
Lilly Irani was recently profiled (in a good way) on the CACM Blog, which is located here:
Thinking Globally, Thinking Locally: Infrastructures for Collaboration | Computers And Society | Communications of the ACM
An excerpt follows:
“Lilly studies infrastructures necessary to support design teams that operate out of India and work with clients who are also in Europe and the United States. Lilly started with seven weeks of immersive fieldwork observing a Delhi-based design team. She lived in the homes of her participants and went to work with them daily. As a researcher, she mostly observed, but she also helped with small tasks around the office, shopping for office supplies and tools, and photographing and filming user research done by the firm. Something Lilly found in her initial fieldwork is that short digital films (e.g. posted on vimeo) can help in communicating with foreign design research clients. In the words of Lilly, “You can post films on vimeo and really engage someone 12,000 miles away in a way that you can’t with a document or a phone call. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, a film is worth 10000 and it’s a lot more likely, if the film is good, that the intended viewer (the client) will watch it all the way through. “
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| Posted: 2/11/10 2:14 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Girls Inc.
Informatics faculty member Gillian Hayes recently published a blog entry on the National Center for Women & Information Technology web page:
“The term “hacking” has, over time, had many different interpretations. Most recently, it has been associated with an emerging movement of creative technological design celebrating ingenuity, appropriation, and repurposing, a blend of hardware and software design practices that adopt and adapt systems and components to new ends their originators might never have imagined.”
Read the rest at:
NCWIT : News & Events : Blog
Hack on Gillian!
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| Posted: 2/10/10 10:09 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Gabriela Marcu
Congratulations to former Informatics undergraduate Gabriela Marcu who was awarded a Microsoft Graduate Women’s scholarship.
Thanks STAR
Congratulations Gabi!
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Tags: award, Gabriela Marcu, Microsoft, scholarship, STAR |
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| Posted: 2/4/10 9:18 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Photo courtesy of flickr:HubSpot
Congratulations to Informatics undergraduate student Samuel J. Kaufman and Informatics Ph.D. student Judy Chen on having their paper, ‘Where We Twitter’ accepted to the CHI 2010—microblogging workshop.
“Users who enter new spaces, especially urban spaces, naturally explore. Increasingly, exploration is augmented by mobile, digital information systems such as mobile phone versions of Google Maps or Yelp. These system’s provide statistics, logistical information, and service reviews written for a general audience, but do not typically inform the user about the personalities of space occupants (the character and culture of a space), recent happenings and other kinds of local knowledge. The system described herein hopes to do just that–provide a novel method for the “colorful” understanding of places, drawing from newly-available corpora of geotagged tweets.”
Congratulations Sam and Judy!
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Tags: CHI, geolocation, Judy Chen, paper published, Sam Kaufman, twitter |
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| Posted: 2/2/10 8:04 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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Freaky Picture of Don
“Social media is everywhere – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, My Space, blogs. Making sense of this online networking universe is Donald Patterson, UC Irvine assistant professor of informatics.”
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Tags: article, blogs, Donald J. Patterson, facebook, myspace, social networks, twitter, UCI, youtube |
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| Posted: 2/1/10 5:03 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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