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GFN is a free, community-edited, nonprofit ASF initiative to find and connect our planet's 1) foresight professionals, 2) future-oriented specialists, and 3) foresight/futures educators, and use and improve social networks and Web 2.0 tools for advancing (via gonzalo)
May 28, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Here you will find a list of coldfusion related projects being developed within sourceforge.net.
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Java and ColdFusion libraries to lookup country code and language from IP address. It uses a local copy of the WHOIS database to perform fast, accurate lookups of country codes. Useful for log analysis, internationalization, geolocation, etc.
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A compact development framework for Adobe ColdFusion applications, implementing an MVC design pattern for web applications. CFRhino has both an event and extension frameworks allowing it to be fully extended.
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CFRSS is a fast and adaptable Coldfusion 7 CFC used to parse and create RSS. It is able to handle various formats and can be easily modified to handle new ones.
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ColdFusion GIS tool library.
May 24, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Mike Liebhold a veteran technologist now at Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future, calls it a “3D data arms race”, with some of the biggest technology companies rushing to amass vast libraries of information describing the world in painstaking d
May 22, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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This work reports on the findings of a field study examining the current use practices of large ambient information displays in public settings. - ethnogrphic study of large public displays
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UPS uses GPS to "minimize the number of left turns... reduces idling which in turn lowers fuel consumption... multiply it across 88,0000 vehicles making nearly 15 million deliveries every day during the course of a year, it adds up."
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Janine Benyus describes how biomimicry works, pointing to its origins in early human history. She explains how and why western industrial nations are only now rediscovering the profound implications that biomimicry has for the future of design.
May 21, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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SoundBite is the quickest and easiest way to create great-sounding playlists in iTunes. Once installed, SoundBite will get to know your music collection and when it's done, you're ready to create playlists to suit your mood.
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Every six months, the Materials Research Society celebrates the most eye-catching images found in the course of their researchers' studies -- celebrating the serendipitous convergence of science and art.
May 11, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture - SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 27, 2008
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DMX512 - DMX512 (Digital MultipleXed) is an agreement over the connection between lighting controllers, dimmers,scrollers, scanners, etc.. base page for workshop info
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Weather RSS feeds in half hour periods.
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Interactive Light - DMX Receiver Documentation (beta)
Tinker.it DMX PWM converter
Code Examples
We're going to be using the Tinker.it DMX shield for arduino to generate DMX signals
May 08, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Sixth Framework EC, April 2006 - March 2009. The challenges raised by NBIC convergence call for renewed, informed and democratized knowledge politics. relevant to all concerned about the political, social and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
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Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins
ISBN 0814742815
336 pages
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
April 30, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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data feed from house automation system to twitter - good example of using other peoples notification systems to get your data "out there" - i think there is a how to in Make Feb 2008
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helping ensure that as nanotechnologies advance, possible risks are minimized, public and consumer engagement remains strong + the potential of these new technologies are realized. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Pew Charitable Trusts
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WASHINGTON - The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small”
April 27, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
April 25, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Reducing energy usage, an office case study by Dave Farebrother FEI Environmental Director - pdf of slides from energy institute presentation. A case study from an office in London, UK
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Buildings 2.0 a grand vision of the future of internet-centric buildings. Following two years of industry roundtables, in 2008 BuilConn will host an industry discussion on the subject of green energy, sustainability, and the role that Buildings 2.0
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Interactive institute's Design Research Unit is happy to announce that funding has been granted from STEM (Energimyndigheten/The Swedish Energy Agency) to launch the project 'SWITCH! Energy Ecologies in Everyday Life'....
April 23, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Reading local energy consumption on the cloud. The kW values shows the actual level on consumption in Ruoholahti & Lauttasaari. The % value shows the percentage of 41,000kW, which is the estimated peak consumption for the last week of February 2008.
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) - UN statistical databases through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
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Data visualization, the art of using visual thinking to understand complex information, is a growing trend--but it also has an illustrious history.
April 19, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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senZations'08 summer school will be held in Serbia this summer.The school will be supported by the EU funded FP7 Prosense project
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Oct 29-31, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. Techniques, algorithms, architectures, protocols, and user aspects, underlying context-aware smart surroundings, and cooperating intelligent objects, and their applications to provide context-aware smart assistance.
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In the context of convergence, the 17th ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit will address the challenges of Future Ubiquitous Networks based on mobile and wireless communications, complemented with fixed infrastructures. (SENSEI have booth here)
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The 2009-10 Programme for ICT research in EU's FP7 will be presented in detail. Other sources of EU research funding for ICT will also be examined (JTIs CIP) representing more than €2 billion in EU support for ICT research over the next two years.
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The first Future Internet Symposium will take place 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria. The programme will be international in scope, and focused on research, especially that which crosses the traditional boundaries of our field.
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SENSEI (Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future) is an Integrated Project in the EU's FP7, in the ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures: ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future.
April 17, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Swedish industrial company decided to outsource the energy management to a specialist firm, setting the straightforward goals: “Room temperature should be adjusted to a suitable and verified living climate, and what is not needed should be shut off.”
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*The virtual-water content of a product (a commodity, good or service) is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured at the place where the product was actually produced* - useful for other representations of water usage
February 28, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Very cool - just works... "Use a simple web form, email participants, visually juggle constraints, presto: the precise opposite of all the meeting scheduling software that no one uses! 100% free; 100% private; no registration; no setup; no hassle."
February 04, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Tigoe: "I’ve been looking for simple ways to graph the data from a sensor attached to a microcontroller lately, because it’s such a necessary activity if you want to look at sensor data over time." very handy
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lecture theme this year is "From Ideation to Innovation," and I used the theme as an opportunity to describe our recent projects, including our work with the Henry Ford, and our products, and the theoretical framework that we're developing to think about
February 02, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos produced on our own time. Great one to explain to your mum what a blog is or social bookmarking.
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We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people-if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
January 29, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Stanford University Bio-X program supports, organizes, and facilitates interdisciplinary research connected to biology, medicine, engineering, information sciences, physics and chemistry.
January 27, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Taking its name from the immersive virtual world imagined by Neal Stephenson in his visionary novel, Snow Crash, the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) is the first public ten-year forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, applications, markets, and pote
January 26, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Useful site collecting audio from all the main speakers at events such emerging technology, poptech, where2.0 and items such as *interviews with innovators* - one for the ipod commute
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"[presented at] TED conference in 2006. I think he does a good job of explaining how mentally immersive games are becoming. (Reading a book about a war is nothing like being in that war.)" - this 22 yr old drove 25k real and 35k virtual miles-great video
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Google tech talk April 2007. World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchabiliity' to even the most mundane of physical products.
January 23, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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great example of documenting and presenting what you have done. A fair amount of data capture must have been going on through out the year.... maybe some inspiration for our internal end of year investment report.....
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Excellent write up by Dan of his talk at Interesting South, Sydney. If you want to understand why i am measuring *stuff* or what is that i am doing then read this.
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Van der Heide also draws clients into the creative mix. “If you go to the theater, why is it beautiful? It’s the magic of sharing the moment.... interesting interview with Rogier VdH
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This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.
January 12, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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...According to Duncan Wilson, who describes himself as a 'futurist' at engineering group and Bop partner Arup, there are commercial benefits to be gained from applying pervasive computing technologies to the design of working environments....
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While there may be a new generation that thinks that email is for old fogies, for many of us, email is a primary online tool, at least as important to us as the web. Many of us no longer file documents or attachments -- we just search for them again in ou
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Have just started to use Xobni Insight and after a week of use the verdict is great - finally a tool that helps me to understand the how I use the application I consistently spend most of my time in. ...[It] is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers
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just arrived via Amazon - looking forward to getting some weekend time to play with this book...
