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Our Future Will Last Up To Ten Seconds: Could Snapchat be used as a revolutionary tool?

Developed by Stanford University students in 2011, Snapchat is an application which allows users to send and receive picture messages and videos in real time. As well as many other features, the USP of Snapchat is that it only...

By Rose Rowson on 09/11/13 Comments Off

Apps evolution

I’m referring to the mobile applications specifically, because people tend to use them all the time in everyday life. We use the terms apps and app phones to describe applications and smartphones. Applications are designed to work...

By Alexandra Kontou on 09/10/13 Comments Off

App review: Open Signal Maps

No signal? Mobility and GPS Locative media has always been an interesting topic to write about, especially nowadays of the ubiquitous present of smart phones in society. A smart phone is a very rich tool to research because it has...

By Daan Fliervoet on 10/12/11 1

PICNIC 08 – What will Google do?

On the last day of Picnic 2008, on Friday at Zuiveringshal West Gisel Hiscock, the Google’s EMEA business development director appeared with the company’s newest initiatives and strategies. Gisel Hiscock outlined company’s scheme of acting opposing the traditional approach –the...

By Maria Perevalova on 09/26/08 3

Skype-to-skype by mobile phone.

A nice addition to previous posts on this blog by Laura en Daphne on 'skype alternatives', here a pro-skype announcement. Today, mobile phone company 3 unveiled its...

By Minke Kampman on 10/29/07 Comments Off

Skype alternative: Fring

In addition to the article of Laura, I’d like to add another Skype alternative: Fring. Fring is a free mobile VoIP application which allows you to talk and chat via an internet connection with pc-based services such as...

By Daphne Ben Shachar on 10/28/07 11

delicious tags for our NM theories assignment

So I take it everyone has started researching their paper for new media theories? I’ve decided to tag all the useful papers and articles i find with nmtheories, while tagging related artwork or projects with locativeprojects. Anyone up to...

By Michael Stevenson on 10/29/06 1

Audio Book Review

Masters of Media presents another audio book review: Indonesian Transitions. Editor: Henk Schulte Nordholt. June 2006 The book review focuses on an essay by Bart Barendregt: Mobile modernities in contemporary Indonesia; Stories from the other side of the digital...

By Roman Tol on 10/22/06 7

Generation here: 3G mobile phone technology

My presentation is on the Motorola-sponsored research “Generation here: exploring the impact of 3G mobile phone technology on global communications”. It talks about the key developments in the field of mobile phone technology of the third generation. Between 2004-2006 a...

By Eva Kol on 10/12/06 1