• It's about experience design: device and networks will take care of themselves
• cross intersection of: community and cultural, software development and user experience
• 'Living Labs' - has to be in the real world, contexts and real interaction make the difference
• UBC's campus is great living lab
• 50,000 mini city
• use GVRD most of the time, UBC sometimes
• If you are average small company, community group, etc taking first few steps into mobile is almost impossible because of horizontally fixed carriers
• can't just do it for particular segment - must be everybody, everywhere
• changing things on the fly is hard
• organic emergence is hard on mobile networks (Roland: go walled garden go! NOT!)
• bidirectional SMS, flickr, voice xml platform
• developers.mobilemuse.ca
• video and media transcoding infrastructure
• all Mobile Muse tools are public domain and open source (Roland: really? That would be great, open APIs would also be great)
• pocket video app, pocketcine - floyd genomics video, mobile VIFF by Seam Mobile
• English 2 Go by Linguacom - anytime, anywhere practise English as a second language
• market is 500 million people trying to learn English
• Vancouver Biennale - Metrocode.net, Tosca - get different part of the story depending on where you are and when you are when you text code on poster, without Mobile Muse, $250K, mobile muse enables this for $2K
• wontgetwierd.com - send video straight to phone via SMS
• Now - Community Generate Media (CGM)
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• mobilemuse
• saskatchewan interactive 2007

I think it would be great for a learning institution like SFU, UBC, BCIT, etc. or even a mobile social/cultural thinktank like Mobile Muse to get access to the full data and produce some great prototype mobile web apps. Since I love food, I am thinking of a location aware mobile phone app that knows about nearby restaurants courtesy of Navteq's points of interest data. e.g. a location aware daily special mobile app! And of course it coud be easily powered by Drupal :-) !

From Navteq visits WinBC | Roland Tanglao's Weblog.:

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Ever wonder what how the data for Google Maps, Yahoo maps, etc. is gathered? Well wonder no more. Navteq, "supplier of world wide map data to the universe" :-), were in town visiting WinBC today and I had the opportunity to do a "Drive and Ride" with them in their specially equipped Pontiac and also to speak with their Vancouver based field personnel as well as their marketing team from headquarters in Chicago:

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VIDEO - Robert Gourdine Part 2 - How to get access to the data? Navteq is interested in growing the community of people using their data which I came up with the phrase "enabler for providing smart, dynamic, location based information". Recorded at Win BC on March 16, 2006

I think it would be great for a learning institution like SFU, UBC, BCIT, etc. or even a mobile social/cultural thinktank like Mobile Muse to get access to the full data and produce some great prototype mobile web apps. Since I love food, I am thinking of a location aware mobile phone app that knows about nearby restaurants courtesy of Navteq's points of interest data. e.g. a location aware daily special mobile app! And of course it coud be easily powered by Drupal :-) !

From Navteq visits WinBC | Roland Tanglao's Weblog.:

QUOTE

Ever wonder what how the data for Google Maps, Yahoo maps, etc. is gathered? Well wonder no more. Navteq, "supplier of world wide map data to the universe" :-), were in town visiting WinBC today and I had the opportunity to do a "Drive and Ride" with them in their specially equipped Pontiac and also to speak with their Vancouver based field personnel as well as their marketing team from headquarters in Chicago:

...

VIDEO - Robert Gourdine Part 2 - How to get access to the data? Navteq is interested in growing the community of people using their data which I came up with the phrase "enabler for providing smart, dynamic, location based information". Recorded at Win BC on March 16, 2006