Tomorrow, I am going to present the paper I wrote with Jakko van del Pol on the grounding mechanisms and the use of specific markers in CSCL.  Here are the slides of the presentation.

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I have to admit it, sometimes the obvious is hidden. I just missed this nice implementation of folksonomies for blogs provided by the people at technorati.

Hereinafter, it is time to catch up (see below).

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Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. Using your mobile phone, you “tag” or capture photos throughout the day, label them with any words you want, and send them to your map. At home, you access and customize your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly.

As a visitor to the Foundcity site, you view a map of all tags and connect with the people and places that share your interests. By plugging in to the network of Foundcity users, you learn what others value in the city as you surf their hotspots. By publishing your own tags, you share what you know about your city.

Our students completed today the presentation of the GSM Tracker project. It is basically an application written in Symbian which runs on the Series 60 and that allows to track the Cell id of the current network cell. This information can then be passed to a database and reused by other applications. Another interesting aspect of their work is that they integrated a fast and rough algorithm for the centroid approximation of the cell. This enable the user to build autonomously a database of the locations of the towers’ positions.

We are planning to release soon the source code. In the mean time you can check the project report (sorry only in French at the moment) and the PowerPoint presentation (in French also).

Sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this perspective it is our obligation to use it wisely.

Recently it started to integrate satellite imagery to show places subject to environmental predation.

Dinnerbuzz is a social guide to dinner and drinks. Pretty much the same look and feel of del.icio.us, just targeting places where to eat. It seems that the power of social tagging is extending far beyond geek usage. What I think is missing here is an integration with Google Maps.

Structured blogging is about making a movie review look different from a calendar entry. On the surface, it’s as simple as that – formatting blog entries around their content.
To see what we’re talking about, check out the sample content on the blog. On another level, it’s a bit more complicated – what we want to do is create structure (in the form of XML) around each of these types of entries, to organize the data inside and to let machine readers – other programs, sites, and aggregators – better understand the content.

CellTrack is a program to collect some phone information about the cell you are connected to – like the net monitor.

The topic of the CAIF workshop was the development of furniture that can support collaboration and interaction of the students in the learning center. 50 researchers participated from all over the world to brainstorm of possible applications. Here is the booklet that present their research projects.

Last week, during the CAIF workshop, we presented the concept of ShoutSpace and STAMPS, the project I am conducting for my PhD. Here are the slides of the presentation.