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Zurfer, the location-based photo browser from Yahoo! Research Berkeley

Zurfer, the location-based photo browser from Yahoo! Research Berkeley
The hits just keep on coming...
Yahoo's Berkeley research group has a research prototype supported by Nokia's S60 devices and Motorola's Razr Vx3 -- possibly others. I had no idea how many phones are S60 devices.

• See what's around you

  Zurfer shows you photos taken around you, and exposes interesting 'local highlights'.

• Follow your contacts

  Get the latest photos from your Flickr friends, and follow recent comments on your photos.

• Take your photos with you

  Access your entire Flickr photo collection and your favorites when-
  ever & wherever you need them.

• 'Flickr inside'

  Customize Zurfer to use the power of Flickr; get interesting photos; and search for any topic.

ETech 2008 CFP is Open

ETech 2008 CFP is Open
The Call For Participation for the 2008 edition of the Emerging Technology Conference (AKA ETech) is open. We are going to be expanding the scope of ETech this year. We're going to look beyond the web to manufacturing, biotech, large-scale systems, sensor networks, alternate reality games, visualizations, robotics, policy, human enhancement and clean tech. The CFP closes on September 17th so submit soon! The conference will be held in San Diego from March 3-6, 2008.



A few topics

Energy
Abundant and Ubiquitous Comuting
From Virtual to Physical
Visualization
From Physical to Virtual

Yahoo! Pipes: Deconstructing a Pipe

Yahoo! Pipes: Deconstructing a Pipe
Pipes and filters for the net.

3D Models from 2-d photos

Its not the online world, its the world online
-- EveryScape tag line.

3d, 2d, photos, who cares? Architecture, travel, geography, culture are about to change. Google earth is so 2006. If you teach yoga, take pictures for a newspaper, are a photo journalist, or are Italian, checkout EveryScape before reading further.

Companies like Advanced Scientific Concepts (high end) and EveryScape (low end) are changing the rules. Checkout the Advanced Scientific Concepts LADAR system on youtube.

HyperMedia V2.0
EveryScape supports HyperMedia. Not my kind of demo, but check it out.

Becoming a ScapeArtist
All this does not quite make sense, unless you realize that EveryScape is signing up people at several levels of commitment and expertese to shoot the world.

Graffiti Artist
Amateur Artist
Master Artist
Commercial Artist

A Graffiti Artist doesn’t require any special training or skills — just that you are interested in sharing the pride, passion and knowledge you have for your world.

You’ll need to be an experienced Web user and spend a couple of minutes reading and accepting the rules and regulations for adding content. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to embed links and content like Web sites, photos, videos, reviews and commentary into scapes. You’ll also be responsible for reporting and removing inappropriate content and ensuring the accuracy of content.

As a Graffiti Artist, it’s up to you to represent your world.

As an Amateur Artist, you will need the passion, pride and local knowledge of a graffiti artist combined with panoramic photography experience. We’ll provide online training resources to help you turn your panoramic art work into the immersive 3D images you see in scaped locales.

After completing the online training and accepting the rules and regulations for posting content, you’ll be able to post panoramic photos that are geo-tagged to locations or on map screenshots. You can also embed links and additional content including Web sites, photos, video reviews and commentary.

Required equipment: Point and shoot digital camera; IPIX Starter Kit; IPIX Interactive Studio Essentials Pack (minimum)

Master Artists share the same passion, pride and local knowledge with our other artists. Because of the increased expectations that go along with being a Master Artist, you must have panoramic photography experience and an understanding of photographic principles like composition, lighting, staging, etc., and more sophisticated equipment.

We’ll provide the same training that Amateur Artists get as well as additional training and information regarding where to take photos and expectations for quality. Once you accept the rules and regulations for posting content, you’ll be able to do everything that an Amateur Artist can do and earn money for your high-quality, relevant work.
Required equipment: Digital SLR; Fisheye lens; PeaceRiver camera head.


Commercial Artists are where the rubber meets the road — literally. As a Commercial Artist, you will travel the highways, byways, avenues, alleys and side streets of locales acquiring GPS-tagged panoramic photos. With this critical work, you are creating the canvas that all other artists will work on.

After 2-3 days of training in the use of the EveryScape car-mounted photography rig, image acquisition and logistical coordination, you’ll be ready to roll. Because of significant time investment, equipment requirements and expectations for quality and consistency, Commercial Artists are compensated for their efforts. And loved by all.

Required equipment: EveryScape car mounted photography rig; access to a car.

Zero :: Zero complexity. Zero overhead. Zero obstacles

IBM's Zero is out in the open, so to speak. Full stack. Groovy/php scripting. Native Java. Dojo integration. Oh, yes, there is Ivy, Json and MySQL too.
I'm feeling RESTful all ready.


Of course, Atom & RSS are baked right in.

NING :: A toolkit for creating social networks

Want your own version of FaceBook targeted at kayakers or yoga instructors?
Checkout Ning.
Many interesting things for developers about the API.

Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS)

Amazon introduced a public beta of FPS today.

Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon's reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.

Two features (of many) that are appealing

• capacity to bundle many micro payments into a monthly payment
• ability to develop applications that serve as middlemen.

For example a website featuring kayaking instructional videos could charge 1 cent per view and get payment at the end of each month for 35 cents.

Because of the ability to server as a middleman, a portal site could handle transactions for a variety of customers using the portal -- perhaps sites with kayaking, snowboarding, and yoga videos.