Tagging in the real, meatspace world is an urban, semi-artistic endeavor which entails scrawling your handle all over public surfaces. Tagging in the wired universe is, of course, a folksonomy, a means of categorizing and organizing ideas, terms, things and themes. Semapedia brings the two together again, so to speak. Here’s how it works: you choose a wiki article with a real world connection. Copy the article’s URL and paste it into the Semapedia form (on the site’s homepage). Semapedia will churn out custom made tags available as a printable PDF. Print out the tags and attach them according to the content they link to (in some cases, it’d be wise to ask for permission, or simply do your deed at under the cover of nightfall). Cell phone users will be able access the wiki info by simply pointing their screens at the tag (provided they first download a 2D Barcode Reader for their phone). It’s tagging 2.0 style.
In their own words;
“Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the
right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical
space. To accomplish this, we invite you to create Semapedia-Tags which
are in fact cellphone-readable physical hyperlinks.”
I was watching the Dutch news this morning and there was an announcement/news item about the newest helping han of the fire department in London. A little helicopter. Now that is not really new. What really catched my eye were the goggles that the operator of the little helicopter was wearing. I could read iCuiti on it. I started to google on this and found a really cool video about these goggles. You can see it here and here is their page on MySpace.
It’s very high on the wishlist ;-)
