4 posts tagged “cellspace”
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.”
This is not a danger. It's an extra service for the users of expensive payed mobile hand-sets. It's not important that you can be reached by voice-calls, It's important here how you can reach someone else with your voice.
Skype is taking over the role of the 1960 switchboard operator here. This will give some more extra space on the
"new" networks. 3g+4g.
News by Brad Kellett on Thursday February 22, 2007.
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In a move that could benefit end users greatly, VoIP service
provider Skype has petitioned the FCC to apply the 1968 Carterfone
decision to wireless phone networks, opening up the possibility of
easier use of services similar to Skype on mobile handsets. The
Carterfone decision allows customers to attach any device to the phone
network, provided it does not harm the network itself, which Skype sees
as extending to allow any application to run on any device that can
access the network. Currently, mobile operators limit the kind of data traffic permitted
on their phone networks, especially in the case of applications like
Skype that can steal revenue from them by allowing cheap VoIP calling.
Skype's argument for opening up data networks is that doing so would
offer "tremendous new sources of price competition provided by entities
such as Skype." The principal behind the Carterfone decision currently applies to
the wired phone network and cable TV networks. Government regulation
applying the principal to mobile phone networks would require carriers
to allow any application on any compatible handset to be used on their
network. [via Ars Technica]
YeSsz... it was time for a change. Those who are familiar with the looks of homebase will be surprised how it looks now! In Januari somewhere we will have a new year's drink in our fantastic place.
