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Más tarde o más temprano vamos a ir hacia los teléfonos móviles que integran el navegador GPS. De 2004 a 2006 hemos doblado las ventas espectacularmente y el mercado inalámbrico ofrece muchas oportunidades. Ahora empezamos a ver los primeros terminales, y entre 2008 y 2009 será un mercado masivo, de centenares de millones de teléfonos móviles que incluirán mapas de navegación.

En el mercado de los dispositivos móviles, el acceso a los mapas es gratis, se pueden realizar búsquedas e incluso calcular rutas, pero la navegación hay que pagarla. La segunda vía de ingresos de los mapas vendrá por el contenido extra (hoteles, pistas de tenis, restaurantes o incluso encontrar a un fontanero, como unas páginas amarillas). La tercera vía es la publicidad, al igual que hace Google en Internet. El 25% de la gente que tiene mapas en su móvil también lo emplea para navegar.

The MIT Museum is leading an innovative location-based storytelling research project, Museum Without Walls (MWOW), to put history and science in your hand and turn the world into a museum. The goal is to help reveal the hidden and the extraordinary in the MIT landscape by encouraging people to learn about their surroundings. It begins with an Institute-based effort but the project is pioneering the development of technologies as a model usable by any institution or community.

Estas audioguías GPS serán accesibles para los turistas extranjeros --puesto que van a ser diseñadas en varios idiomas-- y tendrán un importante componente de audio y video para que los discapacitados sensoriales tengan acceso a toda la información relevante, informó la Universidad en nota de prensa.

Se prevé que las audioguías se puedan alquilar en los diferentes puntos de información --oficinas de turismo locales--,

Would I need an ordinary guide as well? Honestly, no. But I would like to have all my travel information available in the form of an audio download and accessible on my car DVD-player or my Mp3 rather than accessible in a written form. This would enable me to listen to the introductory stuff, while travelling on the underground, in my car or relaxing at my hotel. After surfing around on the Internet, it seems as if this option is not fully available. The large publishers are naturally scared of being hit by the same blitz as the music business. The prediction is however pretty easy. It is only a matter of time.

But some say the flood of information becoming available through mobile phones and other means is not always such a good thing. "I worry that people attribute too deep a meaning to raw information," said Danah Boyd, who researches social media at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "An increased flow of information should not be confused with a deeper bond." Boyd stressed that this also applied to other social media that gather large amounts of personal information, like blogs or digital photo accounts. "The situation these technologies create is similar to what happens with Angelina Jolie or another celebrity," Boyd said. "Just because I know a lot about a person does not mean they will help me on a tough day." An added risk for the location-announcing services is that people might find themselves unable to break away from following friends or old lovers, Boyd added. "The problem is that people really, really love stalking," Boyd said. "When you have just ended a relationship, it is not necessarily healthy to follow the exact location of your ex- lover minute-by-minute on your phone."

Geomática, en algunos lugares del mundo denominada Geoinformática, es un término científico moderno que resulta de la unión de Ciencias de la Tierra y la Informática para expresar una integración sistémica de técnicas y metodologías de adquisición, almacenamiento, procesamiento, análisis, presentación y distribución de información geográficamente referenciada.

The Aware platform is a design tool and a production environment. It allows for collective publication and syndication of mobile media. This schematic illustrates the different stages in the interaction-system flow:

The taxi is outfitted with an interactive touch screen that displays video, animations, music, and information triggered by an onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver which allows the displayed artwork to change depending on where the taxi is in the city. With the combination of the media/gps technology, the mobile environment and the passenger/audience inside the cab – the eleven artists in teletaxi are offered a unique set of possibilities for showing their work - both technically and thematically.

This map is a collaborative expression of the city, and your contributions are a vital part of its living, breathing whole. It's free, easy, and we also think kinda fun, to submit your work here - just head here for more info.

International Journal of Social Spaces 

Mobile Bristol Toolkit Download the non-commercial version here. Contact us for commercial use. The Mobile Bristol Centre was a programme investigating how mobile devices and pervasive information technology can be used to enhance the ways in which residents and visitors experience and interact with their physical environment and with each other in urban and public spaces. Imagine a digital landscape overlaying the physical world. As we walk around this landscape, we can tap into the digital sounds, sights and interactions that are positioned in the landscape and activated by our presence and actions. The digital landscape is formed from a dynamic and overlapping set of mediascapes which are context-sensitive combinations of digital media and interactions created and deployed by various authors. The project has created a toolkit, which provides a digital canvas over the physical landscape onto which digital experiences can be painted and new commercial opportunities can be explored. As people walk through the physical environment, a diverse range of digital media experiences augment the ambiance and bring these spaces alive. The project had three main threads. Each thread informs, drives and enables the others.

The MSc in Society and Space provides a rigorous grounding in key theoretical, philosophical, methodological and substantive debates relevant to the critical study of society-space relationships. It provides training in a range of research methodologies, from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. It also offers participants the opportunity to develop this generic set of theoretical and methodological understandings in the substantive areas of human geography research at the University of Bristol including the geographies of neoliberalism; knowledge and performativity; and philosophy, policy and practice in spatial modelling.

As you may have guessed from the blatant self-affirmation of my domain name I'm Sam Kinsley! I recently completed the MSc in Society and Space at the School of Geographical Sciences in the University of Bristol. I studied as an undergraduate at the University of Plymouth, in BSc (Hons) Digital Art & Technology in 2004.

True Secrets There are secrets in this city. True Secrets' detectives have uncovered a treasure chest of urban tales, rumors and lost news stories. Zoom into the story and be swept back in time with these high-quality, site-specific, immersive audio dramas.

New Augmented Space and its Memory The concepts of place, proximity and distance are going to be substantially rewritten by the locative media evolutions.

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