My Social Fabric

The Social Fabric is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric.

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Via Marc

Koreans cybertrip to a tailor-made world (The Age, May 9, 2005)

"Cyworld has been a trendsetter, spawning a new internet culture in the personal media era, and its success was natural, not accidental," he wrote in The Korea Times in February.

Today, South Korea is the world's most internet connected country. At the end of 2003, more than 11 million households - three quarters of all homes - had broadband access which, according to cable companies, was saturation point. Cyworld got started in 2001 but remained small until 2003 when its popularity exploded.

Cyworld on mobile
Does anybody know korean? As Google is not of too much help this time around.





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Already old news, but I wonder how the pilot is going ahead. Reading about the process of paying, I am not sure if it is as simple as Gravitec thinks. But maybe I am wrong here. Does anybody know some details?

The process of paying is quite simple: at the cash desk the client holds his mobile phone over the Gavitec code scanner. This device reads the personified code of the user’s mobile phone number and communicates the data and the amount to be paid to the client’s bank. Within a few seconds an SMS is sent back to the mobile phone with the payment code and the amount of money to be paid. To confirm the data received, the client again holds his mobile phone over the Gavitec scanner and enters his PIN-code – and thus the payment process is completed. The only prerequisite for making use of the possibility to pay by mobile phone is registration with PostFinance.

In Japan QR Codes are everywhere. Now they are slowly slowly also coming to Europe. There are other solutions as well - Semacode, the ETH project.
activePosters

Active posters are standard printed advertising posters that would be found on hoardings, at bus stops, outside cinemas or the Underground. Unlike standard posters, they have special "barcodes" printed on them. These are read using standard camera phones and link the poster to online content, applications and services. For example, one could "click" on a poster to download music, buy tickets to a show, order a taxi or answer quiz questions. Each active poster can have its own unique barcode, so the service offered can be specific to a particular location. For example, a shop near to a particular bus stop could offer a special discount on an advertised product. The special barcodes can link any printable surfaces such as books, magazines, leaflets and stickers in addition to certain types of digital display screens to on-line content in all kinds of urban/suburban/rural situations.

[...] Download: Our series 60 camera phone application, Glass, will be made available to triallists. The application uses Gavitec AG's Lavasphere software to recognise QR codes.