Related Projects

From MediaFranca

Contents 1 Web-Based Services 1.1 Mobile Technology 1.2 Social Engagement and Glocalization 1.3 Organizations 1.4 Spatial Annotation 1.5 Social Annotation 1.6 Information Visualization

Web-Based Services

Mobile Technology

• Mobile Phones for Civic Engagement
• OpenMoko - an open source mobile phone project

Social Engagement and Glocalization

• Urban Tapestries, Project Website, Public Authoring in the Wireless City
• BBC iCan, the action network
• MeetUp: Local communities in a global framework.
• Craig's List

Organizations

• Institute of Applied Autonomy
• The Internet Governance Forum
• Institute of Network Cultures

Spatial Annotation

• Neighbor Node Project are group message boards on wireless nodes, placed in residential areas and open to the public. These nodes transmit signal for around 300 feet, so everyone within that range has access to the board and can read and post to it.
• Yellow Arrow Project is a global creative community creating a new M.A.A.P.^* of the world. ^*Massively Authored Artistic Publication.
• Found City s a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. From your computer or cell phone, you tag locations, add photos, label them with any words you want, and plot them to your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly. (John Geraci)
• The Silence of the Lands enables participants to map and annotate the soundscape of urban and natural environments. Participants can record and collect ambient sounds, create and share acoustic cartographies, and use them as conversation pieces of a social dialogue on the sonic environment. The result is a pervasive museum in which personal acoustic ecologies are translated into an affective geography that changes over time according to participants' perceptions and interpretations of their environmental setting. (Elisa Giaccardi)

Social Annotation

• GROOP.US by K Bielenberg as his master thesis, 2005 (currently down?)
  A peer filtering web service for browsing tag-related websites. The approach tries to reduce folksonomic flaw of inacurate tagging by consolidating a network of trusted lexicons.
• con§tel by Manuel Sanfuentes and me. This is a related article
• Annotea Project, Web annotation project (2001)
• Diigo
• del.icio.us.descover by kiddpunk

Information Visualization

• The Brain by TheBrain Technologies Corporation: A resource and knowledge management desktop system that mimics the asociative thinking of humans in oposition to the hierarchical folder logic of the OS.
• CmapTools: Concept maps building tools with sharing features, shared servers and "knowledge soups".