App Review: AroundMe
Where is the next cinema? Are there any pubs and restaurants near by? Where can I find the nearest points of interest? With the help of an iPhone you can answer such questions yourself within seconds. GPS and permanent...
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Come Out and Play Festival
On September the 28th and 29th Amsterdam will be transformed into a huge playground. A wide variety of big urban games will take place in the city……You may choose to take virtual penalties with your cell phone, play Snake...
New Network Theory – Review
For three executive sunny days last week, the humanity studies faculty of the University of Amsterdam hosted the New Network Theory conference. This four party collaborative initiative – consisting of Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network cultures,...
UvA New Media Research Lectures
We are pleased to announce: “Mobile Affect, Mediality and Abu Ghraib” Richard Grusin Thursday, 22 February 15-17u. Turfdraagsterpad 9, Room 0.04
Smart Clothes: the hug shirt
The Hug Shirt has been nominated as one of the best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine! How does it work? The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned...
Personalized advertizing on mobile TV
Last Wednesday December 13th BBC’s Newnight had an item about personalized advertizing on mobile tv. You can find it here
interesting locative media websites
I have found a couple of interesting locative media websites/ articles/ blogs: These involve geotracing: http://www.geotracing.com/ http://beta.plazes.com/locate/mobile.php http://www.n8spel.nl/ Location based mobile phone games (pervasive gaming): http://www.in-duce.net/archives/locationbased_mobile_phone_games.php#more http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ http://www.pervasive-gaming.org/index_swf.html Article about botfighters, a mobile (location based) multi user game (/pervasive...
Cell Phone Culture
Recommended: Gerard Goggin. Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Reply: Serbia Telecom; An interview with Dr. Darko Djukic
In response to the article published below concerning the current telecom situation in Serbia, I let Dr. Djukic read the article. He was quite critical about its content. I recorded his response here. Dr. Djukic created the smallest electronic...
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Serbia Telecom: Privatization, mismanagement and cable-war.
A few days ago I was having a conversation that is worth noting. The talk was with Marco, who was visiting The Netherlands as a tourist. Marco works for Telecom, the state owned telecom provider in Belgrade, Serbia. Marco...
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...
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...
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...