http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:04:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/top-countries-tweets.html Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:26:46 +0000 A 21st century mapping guru depicts how people and tweets move around the world.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/mapping-the-world-with-geotagged-flickr-photos-tweets-infographic.html Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:26:11 +0000 Eric Fischer creates a set of maps comparing geodata from Flickr and Twitter.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/geotag-your-favorite-typography-with-typeplace.html Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:26:14 +0000 A location-based app for the typeface devotee, lets you snap, upload and map your favorite fonts. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/could-google-earth-murals-be-the-new-billboards.html Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:37:37 +0000 A failed art installation creates the potential for "global" advertising campaigns.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/priority-seating-for-those-who-want-conversation.html Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:33:29 +0000 Brisbane public art installation aims to promote interactions between commuters through Google maps and geotagging.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/future-of-real-time-instant-mapping.html Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:15:40 +0000 A growing number of open source tools and lo-fi solutions offer local communities the ability to rapidly generate maps and provide real-time instructions for navigating uncharted or changing landscapes. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/googles-social-geo-location-app-latitude-now-on-iphone.html Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:10:31 +0000 The application, previously released as a web app, has been entirely rebuilt for iOS4 enabling it to run as a background application constantly broadcasting a user's location to their network. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/icoolhunt.html Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:53:09 +0000 The Co-Founder of the iCoolhunt app talks about crowdsourced game-based intelligence gathering and trend spotting.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/gifi-physical-location-based-gifting.html Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:26:18 +0000 A remarkable new app was announced this week that lets users leave money for friends at specific physical locations.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/foursquare-graffiti-appears-across-college-campuses.html Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:03:34 +0000 As universities digitize the college visit by geotagging points of interest for users navigating via smartphone, many officials are running into issues with those digitally defacing the community space.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/11/highlights-from-designtide-tokyo-2009.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:12 +0000 Each year during Tokyo Design Week, DesignTide Tokyo features top design innovations from a variety of fields. With today marking the end of the five-day event, we've highlighted three projects below that we find particularly inspirational.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/mobile-augmented-reality-tagging.html Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:38:36 +0000 Metaio, a software development company focused on augmented reality, is developing a mobile application that allows users to drop or tag locations with personal messages, websites or even complex 3D models.  With an interface similar to the augmented reality tweet viewer, the forthcoming application makes it possible to leave their virtual messages to be picked up by specific people or even create augmented graffiti on public space. The possibilities of general commenting could integrate with Yelp to help see recent comments on nearby restaurants or alert friends of your whereabouts in an augmented reality view…with a dragon.  It is not knownRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/making-maps-from-photographs.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:07:50 +0000 Using 35 million geotagged photographs from Flickr, David Crandall and a team from Cornell University have created accurate global and city maps from the data alone. Plotting the raw data from the photos (geotags, text descriptions, key visual features) onto a blank canvas revealed the planet’s familiar landscape, as well as  where in the world people were placing their attention. They also discovered some interesting facts from the experiment, such as: New York is the world’s most photographed city (12 million images), and the midtown Apple Store is the fifth most photographed location in the city. [New Scientist via TheRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/streamlining-your-content-to-the-web.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:10:28 +0000 Technology is generally meant to make life easier, but often users are bogged down in complicated process with programing, uploading and sharing their many different gadgets.  Eye-Fi, the maker of location-aware memory cards that can wirelessly upload data, has continued to expand their capabilities.  Just this week, they added a new card that can wirelessly upload video and another that can automatically geotag your video. The system automatically uploads your data onto sites you deem appropriate, such as Flickr, YouTube or Facebook. The newest geotagging-enabled card automatically labels your photos by location and lets you upload from more than 10,000Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/location-based-game-encourages-players-to-explore-the-real-world.html Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:35:34 +0000 As GPS enabled devices continue to evolve, we expect the trend of online applications that engage us in unique ways with our actual physical environments to continue developing increasingly novel uses for our lives.  One of the obvious ways is through play.  We’ve previously written about Parallel Kingdom, a location based game where users’ real world wanderings correspond to in-game movements. More recently we came upon Turf Bombing, a game that forms players into loosely associated “gangs” through shared zip codes, and whoseultimate goal is to control the most territory. Participants complete these tasks by exploring different neighborhoods, cities and even countriesRead more...]]>