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The CCC just released the audio and video recordings of the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress. More information can be found on the CCC Events Weblog.

The time has come to disclose the secret of my previous post. I know that all of you have been waiting for this moment with great anticipation
Well, I have to admit that I may have exaggerated a bit (or even excessively) when I was talking about a feature which is ‘magic’ and ’simply kicks ass’. To be honest, it’s not that thrilling - but it’s nice though.
So here is the information you’ve all been waiting for so long: As I already mentioned yesterday, the MIDlet records position-information together with a timestamp. If I select ‘Flickr it!’, the MIDlet connects to Flickr and asks their server to tell it which of my photos are tagged with ‘marked_for_geotagging’. Then it checks the recorded geodata for a timestamp-match of the Flickr-photos and the recorded position data. If there is a match it automatically adds a geotag to the photo on Flickr.

Click here to see my first set of geotagged photos
Here is another one from today
I hope I have time to add also bluetagging and celltagging in the near future.
If you’re interested in blue- and celltagging, have a look at Meaning which is an application for Symbian Series 60 phones. The difference between Meaning and the MIDlet described above is, that Meaning adds geo/blue/cell-tags to photos taken with the phone’s internal camera and uploads them directly to your Flickr account over-the-air whereas my MIDlet adds geotags to photos which are already online (this is useful if you prefer to use your digital camera because of the better image quality).

Today I wrote a quite cool piece of software (at least in my opinion)
I’m talking about a MIDlet for J2ME capable phones which fetches the geodata from a Bluetooth GPS device in regular intervals of a few seconds and stores the route to the phone’s memory. Well, you may now think that this is nothing special - and you’re right - BUT the MIDlet has also the magic “Flickr it!” feature (which simply kicks ass ;-)).
So, you might ask yourself: “What the hell does this mysterious feature do that makes it so cool?”
Unfortunately for you I’m not going to tell you now, because 1.) I’m too tired and gotta catch some sleep and 2.) much more importantly: to tantalize you and make the whole thing more ‘thrilling’.
Please be patient until tomorrow when the secret of the mysterious “Flickr it!” feature gets revealed.

This is what blog.datenmafia.org looks like if you enter the URL into the Website as graph visualizer.

My project proposal for TotalSurveillance received an Honorary Mention at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica in the [the next idea] category.

Check out the list of awarded projects for 2006 - some of them are really cool.

Irgendwie habe ich erst jetzt mitbekommen, dass in Wien eine Art Spielplatz für Geeks seine Pforten geöffnet hat - das Metalab. Dort soll Gerüchten zufolge auch der diesjährige EasterHegg stattfinden.
Dieses Metadingsbums macht jedenfalls einen ganz guten Eindruck und es scheinen sich dort (zumindest im WiKi) auch eine Menge interessanter und kreativer Leute herumzutreiben. Mal sehen was draus wird…

From the FON website:
What is FON?

FON is a WiFi revolution. Our objective: to build a Wifi world. Our method: to permit all users to synchronize their access points into one: FON. Pay for connection at home; connect anywhere. Join the FON movement!

Who is FON?

FON is an integration of those wanting to contribute to free universal communication and solidarity. We are a usernet growing larger every time we exchange part of our bandwidth for the ability to connect to the bandwidth of other FON members, in every moment from every location in the world.

… zum Glück gibts viele Vorträge als Videomittschnitt in diesem netten Archiv hier.

Diese Software ermöglicht es, Quicktime-Movies im Terminal (als ASCII) anzusehen: klick - Natürlich funktioniert es nur unter Mac OS X 10.3 oder neuer. Hier gibts mehr Informationen: klick
Sieht ziemlich nice aus