Wikihood

Once again  as I stumble around the internet I have come across another application for smart phones. It is called Wikihood. Wikihood uses your current location and then tells you what is around you either historically or what ever is on wikipedia in your current location.

Using Wikihood you can get on the spot answers to questions like:

What persons are most relevant to this location?

What rivers, mountains are in the area?

What companies are located here?

What museums or famous buildings are nearby?

Wikihood's ultimate goal is to organize the world's knowledge - stored 

in the Wikipedia - for any location worldwide, accessible to anyone anywhere.

Specially designed for mobile devices, 

Wikihood gives you fast access to the data 

you need by intelligently showing you 

articles according to their

- distance ("What is next to me?")

- relevance ("What are the most prominent sites?")

- popularity ("What do people like most?")

People can help build wikihood as well. You can help rate how accurit the site is as well as add any information about that area as well.

another youtube video thats more entertaining and uploaded from my Iphone.

Ethnography Pearl trees

So I have decided on what to do my ethnography project on. I think....

So part of research I do for this class is getting on stumbleupon and enjoy stumbling around the internet and  finding hidden treasures. Upon doing so I came across a web site called Pearltrees. This is a collaborative website were you share what you are interested in and others do the same, and from there you share what you find on the Internet. Now I am new to this still but am looking forward to exploring what pearltrees is all about and really diving into what "pearls" and "hidden treasures" (reference to earlier in the post) there are.

Crowdsourcing

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Plugshare is just one example of people using their own information and sharing it with others. Plugshare is an application on the Iphone and other smart phones were people can share information about where places to charge their smart cars are. The idea is that people can share where they know they can charge or even there own personal charge stations so that people wanting to invest in cars that are battery powered can feel more at ease knowing that there are places to charge there car in case of emergencies.
This is just one type of crowdsourcing. I think that this is a trend that more and more are starting to follow. I feel that people are seeing the good that new new media is capable of. As more and more become aware I Think there will be more sharing. And not just sharing common knowledge but like Plug share there will be people sharing on the internet on a more personal level and that there will be a trust that is built. If there is not then there will be no furthering this type of new new media.

YOUtube

This is my blog post on youtube as well as the youtube video that we were suposed to make for the next class.