Tag Archives: mobility

App review: Appie, groceries 2.0

Bree Tahapary | 16 October 2011, 12:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Some do it on a daily basis, some do it on a weekly basis: grocery shopping. The best known and one of the oldest supermarkets in the Netherlands is Albert Heijn. In november 2009 the company introduced Appie (pun intended), a digital grocery shopping assistent right in the palm of your hand. The application is developed by IceMobile. Let’s…

App Review: Avoidr & Anti-Social Networking.

Liam Voice | 10 October 2011, 11:01 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Avoidr is a plugin powered by Foursquare which allows users to see check-ins of those they want to avoid. It seems perfect for dodging that awkward moment when you bump into an ex, evading conversations with that annoying or boring acquaintance or helping you elude battles with your arch-nemesis (Useful if you’re someone like James Bond!)

Crowdflow: pretty pictures with our iPhone localisation data

Ave Tampere | 10 October 2011, 12:05 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Smartphones have changed the way we think about pretty much all aspects of communication. We’re used to having internet access in our pockets, GPS, barcode readers – you name it. There are thousands of applications to make our lives easier and fun, to make us more connected and better informed. I personally only got into the world of smartphones very…

A(n Ever)note from the train

Bree Tahapary | 14 September 2011, 8:02 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

There’s something remarkable about the interaction between man and machine (and vice versa). Marshall McLuhan and Raymond Williams both had their own view in this classic debate about the social shaping of technology versus the technological shaping of society. Beyond man, new media technologies have showed a major influence on the concept of everything physical around us.

Train of thought…

ElasticMapping: a locative media project

Jan Bajec | 12 October 2009, 12:03 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

On Tuesday October 6th, in the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam, there was an interesting and envisioning lecture and performance by Amsterdam visual artist Esther Polak (http://realtime.waag.org/). Her main interest in the field of locative media is to trace the actions of the subject in the world, to create new visualizations of these…

Mobile City Conference: Tim Creswell on Politics of Movement (… Standing Still)

Twan Eikelenboom | 04 March 2008, 5:13 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Tim Creswell talks from within a framework of ‘twenty years of thinking about place and mobility.’ His talk at the The Mobile City 2008 conference therefore is less about new technology, but more about political issues and the role power. For this, he outlines three ideas, being the “dromology”, the “social kinetics” and the “kinetic elite”.

The dromology, as discussed…