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Ubimark
Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks In Printed Books
People who prefer print books over e-books may still want extra digital material to go with them. That’s the idea behind Sorin Matei’s project, Ubimark, which embeds books with two-dimensional codes that work as hyperlinks when photographed.
A video of the pilot book, Around the World in 80 [...]
Trackmate: an open-source visual marker framework for tangible computing
Noted for future reference:
Trackmate is an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system. The Trackmate Tracker allows any computer to recognize tagged objects and their corresponding position, rotation, and color information when placed on a surface.
Trackmate uses a small, specially designed circular barcode that [...]
Geeking out around the house
Geeking out around the house, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Lately, I’ve been doing the exercises in Making Things Talk.
I put some pictures here.
Paper Bits – Request For Comments
Moo QRCode Stickers, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Although I’ve got a DYMO printer, I thought I’d test and see how well Moo stickers would work with the current geohash generator.
The stickers are gorgeous, and perfect for, say, putting in the margins of a book or on a printout.
But they’re a bit small, which means [...]
What I did over vacation
This last week, I was invited by Dave Gray to the 2008 Sarasota International Design Summit.
There really is too much to summarize in a single post, but here are some of the highlights as I saw them.
People
I had the honor of meeting and befriending some amazing folks. A partial list:
Jennifer Magnolfi, Matt Jones, Timo Arnall, [...]
Hello, World
This is me playing with a brutally simple hack:
There is nothing, really, to see when the link is clicked. For now.
More on “Social Objects”
Alex De Carvalho, via Twitter:
I, too, find [Social Objects] a useful paradigm for web service design and community building.
Stop me if I’m wrong, but this is what I got out of the concept: A social object is something that you care about enough to form a social bond around. It’s an interesting, external [...]
a (very long) conversation with dopplr’s matt jones « Second Verse
Here, have a (very long) conversation with dopplr’s matt jones « Second Verse:
MJ: Well – let’s dial back the Delorean a little to Jyri’s coinage of “social objects.” He was coming at it from social science, specifically “Actor-Network Theory” where sociologists consider everything to act on everything else – people, [...]