Thingster Overview
Thingster Overview
"Executive Overview
Present
Thingster is an open-source weblogging service for locative media. It is being developed by Anselm Hook, Tom Longson and Brad Degraf in association with Locative - a multi-disciplinary group of theorists, artists and engineers exploring the implications of attaching information to place.
Users can publish 'virtual post it notes' about any geographic location: a street intersection, a street address, a restaurant, a hiking trail or a geocache.
Speed and ease of use is a key feature. The time from first seeing the service to making that first post can be less than a minute.
The reward or 'exit strategy' for a project like Thingster is social and environmental. The hope is to enrich neighborhoods such that it becomes easy to discover local services at a lower cost and to create additional environmental awareness.
The hope is that people using Thingster should have a higher quality of life than people not use Thingster - they should simply be 'more fit'."
"Executive Overview
Present
Thingster is an open-source weblogging service for locative media. It is being developed by Anselm Hook, Tom Longson and Brad Degraf in association with Locative - a multi-disciplinary group of theorists, artists and engineers exploring the implications of attaching information to place.
Users can publish 'virtual post it notes' about any geographic location: a street intersection, a street address, a restaurant, a hiking trail or a geocache.
Speed and ease of use is a key feature. The time from first seeing the service to making that first post can be less than a minute.
The reward or 'exit strategy' for a project like Thingster is social and environmental. The hope is to enrich neighborhoods such that it becomes easy to discover local services at a lower cost and to create additional environmental awareness.
The hope is that people using Thingster should have a higher quality of life than people not use Thingster - they should simply be 'more fit'."
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