This morning the WhereCampers started a drop.io box at: http://drop.io/wherecamppdx (Feed). Session notes and photos are being posted there. You can pull a feed for up-to-the minute details on schedule, pictures, and the various documents that WhereCampers have put there.
The unconference has moved to Old Town Pizza for food and hacking. We will be back [...]
While we will talk about location and orientation at WhereCampPDX on Saturday, we have a couple of games that will actively explore people moving through locations on Sunday.
On Sunday morning we will play Pac-Manhattan in the North Park Blocks. This is a chase game that is played by teams of runners and operators. The runners [...]
On Friday evening, WhereCampPDX kicks-off with an art opening at Olympic Mills! The exhibition is called Equilibrium, the Human Mashup and presents artworks that explore the ways art and technology deal with Momentum, Maintenance, Multiplicity, and Mobility.
The WhereCampPDX group will be running a little party game at the reception to get people thinking and [...]
What are some of the tools that map makers use to make maps?
It’s a question that not only concerns developers but also concerns managers and project leads. Many projects, ranging from that small website for a restaurant, or for say a small eco-roofing company, to say a corporate intranet mapping the location of company vehicles, [...]
Local Motives
It’s not the geography of the place -it’s the interactions that happen in that place. — Gail Ann WiIliams @ the Well [ quoted from her talk at the isite @ love at first website event here in Portland October 14th 2008 ]
What do you call a group of folks interested in place? A [...]
It’s not just about the techno-geekiness! We are excited to be supporting SAO and the Portland Working Artists Network in bringing about Equilibrium, the Human Mashup, using the synergy of art and technology to revolutionize society. Equilibrium kicks off WhereCampPDX on Friday Otober 17th from 4 - 7 PM, at the Olympic Mills Building, 107 [...]
After sessions on Saturday, the 18th, we’ll be heading over to Old Town Pizza for dinner and hacking. We’re asking attendees to RSVP and pre-pay for dinner with the form below. Join us to continue talking about ideas from the day’s sessions, and collaborate on projects.
Cost: $10
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TechCrunch had an interesting article last week on the state of the art of the iPhone’s several location-based social neworking apps. Among other things, the article pointed out several features and capabilities that location-based social networking technologies really need to have, in order to add value to the users’ lives. I think the most interesting [...]
Time is running out! WhereCampPDX is only sixteen days away, so we’re coming into the homestretch now. I can’t tell you how excited we are about this. The ideas, the technologies, and the confluence of people that are coming together for this event runs the gamut from health care to gaming, and we are anticipating [...]
Skillfully combining two blog posts in one I figured I’d post about the submission I put together for the Google 10^100 contest [ http://www.project10tothe100.com/ ]. Hopefully that isn’t too self laudatory. But I strongly encourage everybody else to do so as well - perhaps we can get one of our proposals into the top 100 [...]
