It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me…
Take one OpenMoko phone, a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a location reporting service that’s easy on the battery and mostly precise in urban areas. If your area isn’t covered by CellDB, then run around with the OpenMoko GPS reciever online for a while to report celltower locations, and you’re sorted.
Use all of the above to create services like Socialight, location based Twittering, rough geotagging for photos (courtesy of Flickr and FireEagle [both Yahoo companies]) , pre-emptive OSM tile downloads, Asterisk routing - you could even implement ex-girlfriend logic to it all, if she were to have a similar device
Well, I’m sure someone has thought of this already, but I thought I would commit ideas to storage just in case. Once my FreeRunner arrives, I know what I’ll be working on
Migrated to OES on Linux, and missing out on that menu driven dsrepair fun? Fret no more, as DSRmenu will nicely wrap up the CLI version of ndsrepair, and put it into a nice menu driven system for you.
I’m so easy to please Dad surprised me today with a new toy in the garage, a 1Kw portable generator. Ideal for transporting to friends houses and sheds for working on stuff.
Just discovered a lightning talk by Robert Scott on the future of the KDE geo aware desktop. He touches upon how applications will soon support location awareness, mapping, photography and suchlike. KDE4 should be interesting for those of us with a GPS receiver
A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes please… Now you can keep up to date with your favourite RSS reader.
Armadillo Aerospace and their Mod-1 lander miss out on the X Prize by mere fractions. The slight oscillation slowly amplified, and unfortunately during landing the sideways motion caused it to tip over. So close, yet so far. Maybe second time round.
In my daily trawl of the Internet, I discovered Twittervision and Flickrvision. Both present a map of the world, take a live geo-enabled feed of data from Twitter and Flickr and overlay it onto the map. Scrolling smoothly where necessary. It’s very hypnotic, and a lovely demo of the integration of web technologies to the average layperson.
David Heron has a particularly good example of binaural audio, where two microphones are used to record a stereo track at just the location where your ears are. Only heard with headphones, it’s an incredibly spooky effect that has been around for over a hundred years.
