Playful Cities. How Smart Tech Alters Urban Living.

Mai 3rd, 2010 • View Comments Location
Tags: Cool, Creativity, Experimental, Ideas, Lifestyle, Location, People, Presentation, RP10, Trends, Underway, Urban, World

Two weeks ago I returned from one of Germany’s best digital conferences – re:publica 2010 in Berlin. One of the sessions I liked most dealt with Playful Cities. And it was hosted by two friends of mine. Johannes and Igor gave a great overview about some exciting location-based tools beyond Gowalla and Foursquare. Tools that make our cities more worth living. Check out the nice projects they listed here and follow their talk. And maybe they might even prepare a Playful Cities Conference later that year.

Foursquare. Seven days in Frankfurt.

November 27th, 2009 • View Comments Allgemein
Tags: Android, Apps, Cool, Foursquare, Germany, Gowalla, GPS, Ideas, iPhone, Local, Location, Mobile, Social Influence Marketing, Social Networks, Tool

Today’s topic may not be completely new for my American readers but probably for some of those from Germany. On November 19th the third wave of cities for Foursquare has launched. Among them now my hometown Frankfurt in Germany as well as about 50 new cities worldwide. It’s been around in a lot of bigger cities for quite some time. In Germany it’s now live in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Frankfurt. Zurich and Vienna are Foursquare cities in Switzerland and Austria.

So what is Foursquare? Basically it’s a local location based social network (I will use this word in the presence of my granny in the next couple of days). That means: You download a client to your iPhone or Android phone, connect with some friends and start your day in the city.

The big difference to…let’s say Facebook…is, it only works in specific cities (well…yet)  and it’s all about exploring and recommending locations and events. Let’s say for example, you know this fantastic little bar around the corner and you think the White Russian there deserves a little more attention – then you simply locate your favourite nightly hangout via GPS (or start a new venue) and leave a shout to all other Foursquare users in the area to make them try the White Russian here.

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Whatever. Remix something somewhere somehow.

September 4th, 2009 • View Comments Events, Ideas
Tags: Creativity, Event, Experimental, Funny, Lifestyle, Live, Location, Mashup, Music, World

Okay, this is maximum idiotic. Jesse Stills has created this piece of Remix-Mashup-Ambient-Locationbased-GPS-Whatever to do something. I don’t know what it does. But it is digital and weird. (Via Createdigitalmusic)

GPS Beatmap from Jesse Stiles on Vimeo.