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Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (October 12, 2006) Disclaimer (added 3:15pm): Obviously I work at Yahoo and obviously I know the people who work on Flickr and Zonetag personally. Other clients for uploading information from your phone and capturing context do exist and if you're interested in finding...

"UpMyStreet Conversations: Mapping Cyber to Space" (April 24, 2003) So. A bit delayed. Sorry to all concerned. I'll post later about the experience of delivering a paper at Emerging Tech later, when I've had a chance to assimilate the whole experience, but if you're looking for the PowerPoint presentation...

Don't write off Conversations as a geek toy... (April 14, 2003) So there's an article in the Guardian today about UpMyStreet. The article is called Street Plight and aims to understand why the company is in administration. Now generally, it's a pretty flattering article - and a fairly accurate one -...

On the Guardian and UpMyStreet Conversations... (January 9, 2003) There's at least one clear analogue for the process of (1) getting exciting by a work project, (2) getting completely involved in said work project, (3) going at it like a mad badger and (4) collapsing exhausted afterwards. And the...

In which I respond to a huge post about social software with a huge post about social software... (November 13, 2002) Must-read interaction/community techblog of the moment is City of Sound, a site that I found initially via the Slipknot be-hoodied Matt Jones. Our two otherwise independent vectors of interest have recently collided quite heavily around MP3s, list-making and social software,...

Some of my favourite UpMyStreet Conversations (November 8, 2002) UpMyStreet Conversations is starting to pick up now, which means that I can start directing people to some of the best and most useful threads that I'm finding on it... Congestion Charges Does anyone know when these are due to...

Introducing... UpMyStreet Conversations... (November 6, 2002) So I can finally tell the world what I've been working on for the last few months - and in fact, more to the point, I can finally try and get some of you people to try it out. UpMyStreet...