5/29/2012
Under Reconstruction
During the last weeks there has been no new articles due to the birth of my baby son, finishing my Ph.D. (you can call me Dr. now) and a thematical re-orientation. I will rework the blog a bit and start posting within the next months.....
3/26/2012
New mobility apps
At the moment new car-sharing, car-pooling and car-on demand services pop up on every corner in world. The internet becomes an enabler for a new sharing economy and modes of collaborative consumption. A recent study visualizes the different modes of car-sharing in nice manner. What comes next?
Combine car-on-demand and car-pooling. The example of BMW's DriveNow and the car-pooling provider flinc are on of the first combinations. It's easy. If you have a DriveNow car in use and someone near needs a ride, a message in you car pops up. You can decide to give your fellow a lift and you share the costs.
Combine car-on-demand and car-pooling. The example of BMW's DriveNow and the car-pooling provider flinc are on of the first combinations. It's easy. If you have a DriveNow car in use and someone near needs a ride, a message in you car pops up. You can decide to give your fellow a lift and you share the costs.
7/19/2011
Checking-out already? - lastest article in Geoinformatics Magazine
When Foursquare started its service in 2009 many experts could hardly make any sense out of it: A service that asks registered users to “check-in” when entering a shop, a bar or a restaurant? You can get badges and become the mayor of a place if you visit it more often than your friends? Making the visit to a place into a game might have been unfamiliar to many, but it has since gained acceptance. In 2010 we have seen an immense interest in “check-in” functionalities by Facebook, Yelp and other big players in the social media market. But why is it a multi-million dollar business to tell others that ‘I am here’ now?
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7/02/2011
Finally my book is out
It was a long way Josef Kauer, Peter Brack, Claudia Losse and me were going but in the end we formed a well balanced, best-practice book on the rising geoinformation society. Thanks to all contributors for your fine peice of work and thanks a lot to Wichman Verlag, namely Gerald Olbrich for his great support during the last months. The book will be offically presented during Salzburg's AGIT&GI_Forum 2011. Enjoy reading!
NEU: Aufbruch in die Geoinformationsgesellschaft mit Microsoft Bing Maps
Dieser Leitfaden gibt zunächst einleitend einen Überblick über das breite Nutzungsspektrum konsumentennaher, geschäftsnaher und gemeinnütziger Geomedien. Das anschließende Kapitel vertieft deren gesellschaftliche Verflechtung in 20 Best-Practice-Beiträgen zum praxisorientierten Einsatz von Bing Maps.
NEU: Aufbruch in die Geoinformationsgesellschaft mit Microsoft Bing Maps
Dieser Leitfaden gibt zunächst einleitend einen Überblick über das breite Nutzungsspektrum konsumentennaher, geschäftsnaher und gemeinnütziger Geomedien. Das anschließende Kapitel vertieft deren gesellschaftliche Verflechtung in 20 Best-Practice-Beiträgen zum praxisorientierten Einsatz von Bing Maps.
3/02/2011
the DEFINITION of Geomedia
For a long time we talk about geo-media in the lab already and usually we refer to all the services for location-sharing, collaborative mapping, location-based social navigation, location-based entertainment and so forth. All these services that apply geographic information, enable for geo-communication and present it in a broad range of various forms from visual to audio (also a haptic representation of geographic information os possible by the way: TED-Talk on form-changing mobile phones).
This approach to just name exemplary services for geo-media might be useful to make a definition how jazz-musicians do it to define what jazz is: Have you ever realised how many jazz-discs are name "the definition of jazz" or "the real definition of jazz"?
Certainly this way of definition helps to understand what I talk about but it's not grounded at all. So in the coming posts I will come back to this topic with some more details. To being with I think of some dimensional levels that a definition of geomedia must refer to:
Delineation: Media <-> Geomedia?
Delineation: GIS <-> Geomedia?
As a supplement to a technical definition of Geomedia: What kind of representations of space are Geomedia? (to make it adaptable for social/media-science)
The term Map as a container for all forms presentation on geomedia <-> the map as one form of representation (next to other views of geoinformation)?
This approach to just name exemplary services for geo-media might be useful to make a definition how jazz-musicians do it to define what jazz is: Have you ever realised how many jazz-discs are name "the definition of jazz" or "the real definition of jazz"?
Certainly this way of definition helps to understand what I talk about but it's not grounded at all. So in the coming posts I will come back to this topic with some more details. To being with I think of some dimensional levels that a definition of geomedia must refer to:
Delineation: Media <-> Geomedia?
Delineation: GIS <-> Geomedia?
As a supplement to a technical definition of Geomedia: What kind of representations of space are Geomedia? (to make it adaptable for social/media-science)
The term Map as a container for all forms presentation on geomedia <-> the map as one form of representation (next to other views of geoinformation)?
The manifesto of the Geoinformation Society
...honestly it is not a manifesto as you might expect it, but a fine evaluation of the challenges and changes of a future geoinformation society. The 6 theses on the Geoinformation Society (sorry - only in german) are an outcome of a interdisciplinary seminar on "Fundamentals of a Geoinformation Society" that I held last winter within the "Studienergänzung Lernen mit Geoinformation“ at the University of Salzburg. However the term Geoinformation Society reflects only one aspect of our future society it provides a perfect pair of glasses to focus our view on how the ubiquitous production and consumption of geoinformation affects our everyday life and our future society.
12/21/2010
How Geoinformation aids Christmas 2.0
Happy X-mas everybody....let's see how Geoinformation would have helped Joseph and Maria to make everything happen with this nice video from excentric.
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