4sq facts: l’altra sera un’amica raggiunge il gruppo, casualmente in un caffè. “come hai fatto?” “ho visto su 4sq che eravate tutti qui”

@ezekiel

mi ha indotto a riflettere sulla privacy, sulla completa assenza della privacy in questi tempi.

Inutile decidere di non segnare la nostra posizione, inutile resistere alla tentazione di aprire 4SQ o Gowalla, sicuramente l’ho avrà già fatto il nostro amico o qualsiasi altra persona presente nello stesso luogo, e magari avrà anche inserito il nostro nome tra i presenti.

Considerato l’incessante dilagare dei servizi di geolocalizzazione, come Foursquare, Gowalla o il promettente MobNotes, forse è il caso di rispolverare il Galateo aggiornandolo ai tempi moderni:

“Mario, posso condividere con il mondo il tuo party”

“Chiara, indico agli altri che siam qui a festeggiare il tuo compleanno”

Che ne pensate?

Watch this video of Robin Dunbar and you’ll find, maybe, the answer.

In occasione di questa giornata Marco Massarotto lancia un meme e pone alla twitter-sfera la domanda “Perchè dobbiamo difendere la rete?”.

Questo è il mio piccolo contributo:

Perchè lo sviluppo economico e sociale della nazione dipende dall’accessibilità e pervasività della sua infrastruttura tecnologica

Questa è la tag cloud con tutti i tweets raccolti sino alle 23 del 10 marzo.

PDF con la tag cloud

One in five shoppers said they intended to use their cellphones to shop this holiday season, according to an annual survey by Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm. Of those, 45 percent said they would use their phone to research prices, 32 percent said they would use it to find coupons or read reviews and 25 percent said they would make purchases from their phones.

(source: Mobile Phones Become Essential Tool for Holiday Shopping NYTimes)

The iPhone is a fertile ground for Internet of Things, as a product called WideNoise shows. WideNoise is an iPhone application that samples decibel noise levels, displaying them on an interactive map.With the app you can take a sound reading, and if you so wish share that with the WideNoise community. You can check the average sound level of the area around you, which might be handy if you’re house-hunting or simply looking for a quiet spot to relax in.
(source: Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009)

WideNoise

WideNoise

WideNoise is the iPhone and iPod Touch application that samples decibel noise levels, and displays them on a worldwide interactive map.

Noise is pollution as well

We live every day surrounded by all kinds of sound around us. We are accustomed to this background noise, but in the end we feel relieved when, maybe in a park, that stressful noise disappears. WideNoise helps you better understand the soundscape around you.
(source: WideNoise)

The web is not just a bunch of html/php/ruby/python/asp pages

The web is becoming part of our life.

It is not simply the popularity of Web 2.0 offerings that accounts for this increase, though the hockey stick growth of platforms like Twitter and Facebook is certainly dramatic. There’s also a qualitative change happening as the Web becomes more closely integrated with the real world via sensor-based smart phone applications. Web Squared is another way of saying “Web meets World.”

The scale, nature and speed of the data change what we mean by collective intelligence. Consider the obvious use case: internet-connected GPS applications that have built-in feedback loops, reporting your speed and using it to estimate your arrival time based on its knowledge of traffic ahead of you.

(http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/web-squared-oreilly-technology-breakthroughs-web2point0.html#)