Tag Archives: gps

BlockChalk: Forget About The Neighborhood

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday March 9, 2010

BlockChalk is a new locative media tool made by former Delicious people Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer. BlockChalk is available for different…

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The Phantom City: A Ubiquitous Museum

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Monday November 9, 2009

Humans are curious, and they love their curiosity being triggered. In regard to this, the New York-based Museum of the Phantom City does a very good…

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Turning Urban Nightlife Into a Game

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Tuesday June 30, 2009

The New York Times and Bright report about a new, free, smartphone application by Dennis Crowley called Foursquare. Foursquare seeks to turn…

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Citysense: Where is Everybody?!

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday February 21, 2009

A new smartphone application developed by Sense Networks tells you where to find the most crowded spots at a specific moment. Nice for deciding where to go out,…

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Tag the World, Share Spaces!

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday January 15, 2009

The concept of space becomes more and more diffuse in the digitally oriented Western society. The emergence of the Internet already had a tremendous reflexion on physical space. For example,…

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