Hello, yesterday I began to feel the flu coming

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Hello, yesterday I began to feel the flu coming
on, so in case I was too ill to do todays
lecture I instead decided to conduct my lecture
in a different fashion anyway. Today, I would
like to present you with a slide show that
contains all the tools you require to find the
information you need. Read the slide show and
follow the links in an order that you see fit,
take your own paths through this material. The
slide show is here if you want to copy it or
e-mail it to yourself now, otherwise you can
download it from the web. GARETH -)
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Just how central have mobiles become to the way
we conduct our lives and communicate?
Just a quarter of an hour after the Pope was
pronounced dead on Saturday at 937 p.m. (8.37
p.m. British time), the Vatican sent journalists
an SMS message alerting them to a pending
statement.
http//www.textually.org/textually/archives/005226
.htm http//edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/0
2/pope.saturdaypress/
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http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/441594
7.stm
If you are going to Rome to pay homage to the
Pope, use public transport. Be ready for long
but organized queues (very long). Hot by day,
cold by night. To keep informed isoradio 13.3.
http//www.mmoom.com/archives/002629.htm
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Because it uses the same wires, the telephone was
originally seen as merely a speaking telegraph,
but it turned out to be something entirely new.
The same mistake is already being repeated with
the Internet. Many people expect the mobile
internet to be the same as the wired version,
only mobile, but they are wrong instead, the
mobile Internet, although it is based on the same
technology as the fixed-line Internet, will be
something different and will be used in new and
unexpected ways (Tom Standage, 2001, The
Internet Untethered, The Economist)
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http//www.blackberry.net
For a history of the mobile phone follow this
link
http//www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune500/articles
/0,15114,678704-3,00.html
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What are the digital possibilities of mobiles?
3G wireless networks are capable of transferring
data at speeds of up to 384Kbps. Average speeds
for 3G networks will range between 64Kbps and
384Kbps, quite a jump when compared to common
wireless data speeds in the U.S. that are often
slower than a 14.4Kb modem. 3G is considered
high-speed or broadband mobile Internet access,
and in the future 3G networks are expected to
reach speeds of more than 2Mbps.
http//www.3gtoday.com/technology/ http//www.itu.
int/osg/spu/ni/3G/technology/ http//www.engineeri
nglab.com/3g.html
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What is the Shibuya Epiphany?
Check out this version of Howard Rheingolds work
online at
http//www.asahi-net.or.jp/ny3k-kbys/contents/sma
rtmobs.htmlchap1
Click on the Shibuya Epiphany link, or just
keep reading
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Mobiles 'part of social fabric'
Thumb Tribes (Howard Rheingold)
Today we're moving towards a real time of
dependency, where if we lose our mobile we begin
to feel cut off from our network of friends, cut
off from our contacts, and absolutely
disabled. "The other thing is that the mobile
is very much a device of control. We are using
it to control our relationships with others, how
others contact us, and increasingly to control
information Michael Hulme
http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online
/4297993.stm
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"The mobile phone is really turning into a social
computer," (Trip Hawkins, founder of Digital
Chocolate Inc).
http//www.digitalchocolate.com/play.jsp http//ww
w.digitalchocolate.com/life.jsp http//www.digital
chocolate.com/work.jsp
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Image-streams
Mobile phone users appear to take pleasure in the
adding visual information to the stream of
friendly exchanges. Camera phones enable an
expanded field for chronicling and displaying
self and viewpoint to others in a new kind of
everyday visual storytelling. Camera phones
makes ubiquitous visual access to others
possible. In other words, the gaze of others is
always present as a potentiality, leading to a
heightened sense of visual awareness and a
growing centrality of images in the ongoing
social exchanges of everyday life.
The following are deliberate example of this
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Go here
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Check out this art project that utilizes a
combination of little yellow arrows, the web,
mobile text technology, and the environment to
create embedded art/poetry messages
http//global.yellowarrow.net/
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Further enhancements to our mobile communication
3D Positional Audio adds new dimensions to the
user experience allowing applications to place
multiple sound sources in 3D space around the
user. Support multi-channel audio content for
games and music as well as voice
applications Create a real soundscape and a
sense of sound movement, which gives a whole new
meaning to the existence of sound. Considered by
some a new era for the relationship
between sound, mankind and the environment
http//info.comp.lancs.ac.uk/year2/notes/csc200/20
02-2003/Andy20Final/2.htm http//sonaptic.com/new
s/20041209.inc.php
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location-based social networking system
Imagine what it would be like if Your
instant messaging program could automatically
create and populate buddy lists based on the
people in your classroom, your office
building, or even your neighborhood. Your
mobile phone could receive a text message when
old friends you rarely see happen to be
nearby. Your laptop computer or handheld
device connected you to a live feed of
information about nearby people and events.
http//grocs.dmc.dc.umich.edu/mates/