Paleo Music Festival just released a mobile guide with full of informations (programm, news, infos, maps,…). The guide is a standalone application in Symbian done by Minick wich had done the guide for the Euro 2008 if I am not mistaken.
More screenshots on my Flickr.
Via Paleo blog
The blog software has been upgraded and it is now running Wordpress 2.5.1. Once again the upgrade went without any problem. Was a good time to change very slightly the theme to remove all references to “categories”. Choosing a categoy is often a problem for me so I decided to get rid of it and deal only with tags…
I have also upgraded Firfox on one computer @work… quite promising! It seems managing memory much better…
… is bright ;-) Picture taken from a recent trip to Venizia
Remember how Google built up its cell ID->lat-long databases? They used the existing infrastructure and their software already spread on user devices to build it and now they can provide location features on devices that do not have a GPS receiver. Earlier this week a blog post on official Google mobile blog confirmed that. I found out via Tom that there is a similar “Open Source” initiative called: OpenCellID which tries to build up a “cell id database” with downloadable client. Getting the user location seems to become easier every day and it is interesting to see that GPS is not the only solution to retrieve a position and there are open solutions but the real question remains “what is all good that for ?”
We have been talking about Location-Based Services for quite a long time and there does not seem to be yet a killing application even though Devices have built-in GPS (like my Nokia N95) or Location API (like Androïd). It’s the “big thing” we are still waiting for and maybe the problem is that we are not “nomad” enough, just too “local” as pointed by the New York Times based on a field study:
“Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a few highly frequented locations, such as home or work”
Via fr.techcrunch, create your avatar with befunky… it took me less than 5 minutes to do that:
Ok not perfect and probably one can do much better with Photoshop (assuming you have the knowledge which I do not) but it is kinda cool nevertheless…
For some unknown and weird reasons I could not get and send SMS from my N95 phone, neither could I access my logs. Very annoying and I had to go through an hard reset to fix that… here is the process:
Switching on the phone I got more than 20 SMS that were waiting for delivery… weird!!
Commence à m’énerver ce genre d’article…
[...] Mobiletag n’a pas développé un code barre 2D propriétaire, mais s’est appuyé sur une norme ouverte: DataMatrix [...]
Y’a quand même pas beaucoup de différences entre développer un code propriétaire et utiliser un standard dans une solution propriétaire (disons que dans le premier cas y’a au moins un minimum de R&D) . Au final c’est quand même l’utilisateur qui en souffre à l’utilisation…
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L’annonce, relayée par l’ensemble des médias, de l’ouverture de notre encyclopédie contributive en ligne Larousse.fr, a suscité une telle curiosité et un tel attrait parmi vous que notre hébergeur ne peut momentanément répondre à l’afflux de demandes de connexions. Nous mettons tout en œuvre pour revenir à une situation normale.
Vu sur Larousse.fr alors que je voulais voir le résultat :-)
Petite réflexion inspirée de ce billet. Ne possédant pas de voiture, je suis assez pour le développement de service autour du partage de voiture (je suis utilisateur Mobility). Je pourrais être un utilisateur ponctuel d’un service de co-voiturage bien que je ne l’ai encore jamais fait, pour deux raisons en tout cas:
Une pincée de “réseau social” avec une poignée de “dynamisme”… il y a de la place pour une application mobile! Lors d’un événement (festival, concert, soirée,…) je veux pouvoir sortir mon mobile de ma poche et consulter la liste des personnes qui rentrent dans la même direction que moi…
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