Links for 02-10-08

Even more links, I'm on a roll...

Game Design London - October 2008
"This year the event goes outreach. The conference will feature key practitioners from other areas of the creative arts, and ‘collide’ them with practitioners from within. " I'm going. Anyone else?

Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
"The Fitbit Tracker contains a motion sensor like the ones found in the Nintendo Wii. The Tracker senses your motion in three dimensions and converts this into useful information about your daily activities. The Tracker measures the intensity and duration of your physical activities, calories burned, steps taken, distance traveled, how long it took you to fall asleep, the number of times you woke up throughout the night and how long you were actually asleep vs just lying in bed". More in the lifestreaming, data-tracking, spime-y world but, blimey, that might be a bit too much tracking. Here's some more things that track you.

Jan Chipchase - Future PerfectFuture Social
Trends in social technology use: "...the speed of technological change will continue to increase and that for some services the lifetime will be measured in days or hours."

Nascent: Social Not Working?
Science and the social web: "Personally, I'm optimistic about the potential of the web to greatly improve the productivity – and joy – of doing science. I also think it can help to break down barriers between disciplines, and between science and the rest of society.". Sounds like progress will be hard

Whrrl
"Whrrl shows you not just where your friends are right now and what they're doing, but where they have been. In effect, your friends (in combination with a powerful recommendation engine) light up your map with their experiences so you can discover cool places, events and even new people that you might otherwise have missed." Nice looking attempt on the social geographical space, shame it doesn't support the UK yet.

London firm unveils new software for mobile phones that can track transport and measure carbon footprint
"Carbon Diem's inventors claim that, by using GPS to measure the speed and pattern of movement, their algorithm can identify the mode of transport being used." I've been following this because I wondered if you could do that a while ago, good to see you can, it's definitely got potential.

Meet the neighbours | Groups Near You
Using crowdsourcing to geotag local neighbourhood email lists, forums and community blogs

And finally...

BLDGBLOG: Mayan Muons and Unmapped Rooms
The Maya Muon group explains "...pointing out that dense materials block more muons, Patel explains that a muon detector can actually detect rooms, spaces, and caves inside what seems to be solid:"