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Augmented Shadows

Augmented Shadow_document from Joon Y Moon on Vimeo.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Playing with Touchatag

I just received my Touchatag kit in the mail.

I installed the software, plugged in the USB reader, and was immediately able to turn my Field Notes notebook (a souvenir from PaperCamp NY 2009) into a physical hyperlink.

So, now, if I wave my notebook at the reader, my flickr photostream opens in a browser. Ta da.

After [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Hello, World

This is me playing with a brutally simple hack:

There is nothing, really, to see when the link is clicked. For now.

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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