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A competition to create the most viral website, as measured by the number of unique visitors from now until June 9th.

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Like the Sgt. Pepper’s artwork redone by someone with OCD and two grams of meth in his bloodstream, Howard Hallis’ Picture of Everything is a huge, annotated drawing of, well, everything.

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Following Jon Udell’s post on Annotating the Planet first mentioned here and then here, there is Urban Tapestries:

… a project exploring social and cultural uses of the convergence of place and mobile technologies through transdisciplinary research. To help us model emerging social and cultural behaviours we have built an experimental platform that allows people to author and access place-based content (text, audio and pictures). It is a framework for exploring and sharing experience and knowledge, for leaving and annotating ephemeral traces of peoples’ presence in the geography of the city.

The Urban Tapestries software platform allows people to author their own virtual annotations of the city, enabling a community’s collective memory to grow organically, allowing ordinary citizens to embed social knowledge in the new wireless landscape of the city. People can add new locations, location content and the ‘threads’ which link individual locations to local contexts, which are accessed via handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.

See also Stamps

(Stumbled upon via Shoutspace Blogs… via unmediated)

Roadcasting:

… a system that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. It plays the songs that people want to hear and it transforms car radio into an interactive medium.

Roadcasting combines the good things about listening to the radio and the good things about being a radio DJ while eliminating the bad things to form a new type of radio service. It’s incredibly easy to have your own radio station heard by others in their cars within a 30-mile radius. Roadcasting matches you to radio stations that play the music you want to hear.

Woah!

(Hat tip to unmediated)

O’Reilly Radar reports from the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference, where Steve Jobs showed ipodder-like features in the next release of iTunes.

A quick glance over the trackbacks on the post reveals some serious interest from all over the blogosphere.

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a massive archive of video clips four times the size of the industry standard, utilizing the new QuickTime H.264 video codec.

“we will be able to deliver mouth-watering 720x486 (NTSC) or 720x579 (PAL) previews with stunning video quality at low data rates, which means crisp, clear video in much smaller files. Our goal is to not only deliver remarkable previews, but to make certain that our footage fully integrates with your digital pre-production workflow — perhaps in ways you never imagined.”

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