Archive for March, 2008
Japanese Gravestones Memorialize the Dead With QR Codes
Repost from:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/japanese-graves.html
By Asami Novak
QR codes are practically everywhere in Japan nowadays, but here’s a unique take on the technology: Japanese gravestone maker Ishi no Koe (”Voice of the Stone”) recently announced plans to begin selling gravestones with the two-dimensional bar codes embedded into them.
By simply snapping a shot of the tag with their cellphones, [...]
Key Elements In Digital Social Graphs
The excerpt below is a bit technical, but considers the relationship between entities when graphing social networks.
excerpt from:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_graph_concepts_and_issues.php
More about social graphs:
http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/
Key Elements In Digital Social Graphs
With the recent rise and proliferation of social networks, the social graph comes into the spotlight. Unlike the one that scientists have been studying, this one is digital [...]
ebook webapp tightly targets one device - the iphone of course
This is an ebook web app for the iphone (only), which does a surprisingly good job for being a web-only app.
http://www.textonphone.com
Their workaround for being a web app is a bit novel. It also seems they are able to design for known limits of the safari browser, like maxing a single page download to show [...]
