Week 3

#5 Flickr
Flickr has a lot of great images but they all look too professional to convince me I should be uploading my holiday snaps (maybe all the ones taken at the wrong angle and with the sun in people's eyes are marked private).

There were some interesting photos and I found a great Flickrblog entry The Secret Life of Gummy Bears.

#6 Mashups and online applications
I like the Spell with Flickr site and I created the image below. A similar site is FlickrFont.

#7 Technology related post
Below are some links to a barcode technology that I think is great. Toby first told me about 2D barcodes and how these are used to download information to your camera phone by taking a picture of the barcode.

• Barcode scanning world "Outside, in a cafe, a mobile handset camera is pointed at an advertisement, poster, leaflet or beer-mat. In just one click, the user arrives at a webpage designed specifically for that location."
  
• Semacode "Semacode works by embedding a URL (web address) into a sort of two-dimensional barcode which looks like a dense crossword puzzle - called the tag. The SDK software contains the capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on your phone. It extracts the URL and sends you to that address using the phone's built-in browser."


• Semapedia "Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.

The Semapedia goal is to link the physical world to information on Wikipedia. To do this people create tags by pasting Wikipedia URLs on the site, the tag is then created and can be placed on the physical object. This lets others with barcode reading software on their phone, connect the Wikipedia site.

The Semapedia map lets you look for tags in a region as well as list any that you want others to see. This Flickr image is for a tag in Melbourne.