Lifeblog is an application developed at Nokia will help the user to take track of his/her life recording some glimpse of the day in the form of sounds, pictures, or texts. This system is based on the idea that every person wants to author this content and eventually publish it on the web to create a sort of bibliographical information. This bites, once collected can be organised/aggregate into a sort of portal where they can be retrieved with different criteria.

This news from BBC.

Some related links:
MyLifeBits
Apple iLife
Buzznet
Picasa

This plaza connect new architecture with old buildings. Particularly, the designed, concentrated in a play of lights which shows from the pavement of the plaza and shine on the walls of the buildings.

This application developed at Orange Proto Lab is one example of providing new forms of visual communications to mobile phones. Basically a person can start scribbling something on the touch screen of his SonyEricsson P900 and the other person see the drawing appearing and can edit contextually the same drawing. I like this concept of mutual authoring of something, in this case a simple scribble.

Internet site.

OpenMap is an Java Beans based toolkit for building applications which requires geographical information. The interface organises the informations into different layers in the “AutoCAD” style, allowing the author to turn ON or OFF these extra informations. In addition, there are several authoring tools in the interface which allow the user to build aver the existing dataset.

Internet site

From De Landsheere (1976):

Dans leur richesse, le conduites humainse échappent à la quantification intégrale. “Plus on monte dans la hiérarchie des manifestations du phychisme, plus la part de l’individuel irréductible devient grande”, écrit J. Paulus (1969).

Tonight, when we left the office, we found everything under a white sheet of snow.

This very old building was recovered to host an unknown department of the University of Lausanne. It is a very interesting mixture of architectures.

I hated this place. I had to ate standing and it was terrible. It was too crowded and smoky. I will try to avoid this place in the future.

Today we ate at the cafeteria of BFSH2 and we found this interesting sculptures “emerging from the floor” of the building. It was kind of nice because everybody was tempted to go there and touch them. Also it gave to the environment a strange atmosphere.