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  • FaceBots

    The world's first robot with its own Facebook page (and that can use its information in conversations with "friends") has been developed by Nikolaos Mavridis and collaborators from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University . The main hypothesis of the Fac... Read more ...

    Published on 12/08/2009 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Crowdfunding for science

    I and my colleague Giuseppe Riva have just published a letter in Science , where we propose crowd-funding - a form of crowdsourcing applied to finance - as a possible strategy to cope with the lack of investments in research. The full text of the article is availab... Read more ...

    Published on 09/17/2008 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Democratic polling interface

      Re-blogged from InfoAesthetics a web-based application prototype that allows participants to provide direct responses to current issues facing their governments on a selection of social scales (e.g. housing, health, immigration, social rights). the "Waterfall" interfaces... Read more ...

    Published on 04/01/2007 in Positive Technology Journal

  • The Luke Johnson Phone Experiment

    From Textually.org                                   The Cell Freak reports on a cell phone experiment by 27 year-old Luke Johnson from Arizona, solliciting c... Read more ...

    Published on 01/15/2007 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Networks as Metaphors and Models

    Via Networked Performance   Networks have become a powerful metaphor for explaining the social realities of our times. A network, defined minimally, is a system of interconnected elements or nodes, where each node represents an intersection of flows within the network. Everywhere ... Read more ...

    Published on 12/29/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project

    Via 3DPoint  The Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project seeks to outfit Tokyo’s high-end shopping district, the Ginza, with 10,000 RFID tags and other digital beacons. The project, led by Ken Sakamura, a professor at the University of Tokyo, will bring location-based information to p... Read more ...

    Published on 12/28/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

  • SLAM - Mobile social networking from Microsoft...

    Via  LADS SLAM is a mobile based social networking application deveoped by Microsoft Research’s Community Technologies Group, which enables lightweight, group-centric real-time communication, photo-sharing and location awareness. From LADS: From the user perspective, “S... Read more ...

    Published on 11/07/2006 in Positive Technology Journal

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