Some notes to start the discussion from Ted Forbes, Dallas Museum of Art
Some of us have some tight deadlines for getting something functional, so I wanted to take a second and outline some of the issues and ideas we had discussed informally over lunch at Museums and the...
View ArticleManifesto for a New Mobile Architecture
In the beginning… Whether given by live guides or prerecorded on tape, the first museum tours were linear: ———- From starting point A to end point N, the exhibits interpreted on the tour were strung...
View ArticleMobile art bookmarking, collecting and sharing
For all those interested in bookmarking, collecting and sharing through mobile and fixed web, I’d like to have your opinion of this service: http://www.artstream.org/ Last week I spoke with Artstream’s...
View ArticleARIF
Loic, I was the lead designer of Petrosains’ exhibits and the ARIF system which took a huge team to pull off. It wasn’t the first mm tourguide, there was a company using them for citywalks in 1994-5,...
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Abigail + Michael Mouw iPhone app
[Recently Northern Lights and mnartists.org commissioned Abigail and Michael Mouw to produce an iPhone/iPod Touch application, which will allow anyone to present their views – visual and verbal – on...
View ArticleiPhone app development: Rocket science or old hat already?
A colleague and I were talking about mobile strategy yesterday. I argued that in terms of iPhone app development, we’re in something like the late 90s of website development: the platform is new, and...
View ArticleOpensource Mobile Solutions: Omeka & Fluid
Having brunch with Titus Bicknell and Sayoko Knight from Toura today, the conversation inevitably centered on mobile developments for the iPhone & beyond. The question came up of what the...
View ArticleInvitation to join PHEON, the multi-museum game
The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites your institution to join a multi-museum game named PHEON. The game will be designed by CityMystery and anitboredom, the people that brought you “Ghosts of a...
View ArticleLocation location location…
This company is about to market maps for stores and conventions ala Google Maps for interiors. The question remains: what is the dynamic sensing technology that will show a user where they are?...
View ArticleAugmented Interpretive Reality (A.I.R.)
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/10/16/16readwriteweb-devs-hack-iphone-api-for-true-augmented-rea-69325.html I believe this is our collective near future… S
View ArticleWhat’s the lifespan of compressed URLs?
Does anyone know or have experience of the life span of compressed URLs from the various services? (tiny, is.gd, etc…) I know what the compression sites say, but has it been tested? Didn’t one of them...
View ArticleHelp us build a standard for Mobile Content!
Mobile Standards Summit – UK September 8, 2010; 13:00 – 17:00 following the Tate Handheld Conference at Tate Modern – London, UK Mobile Standards Summit – US October 27, 2010; 13:00 – 17:00 at MCN2010...
View ArticleMobile Content Standards Summit UK 2010
Notes from the gathering at Tate Modern, 1-5pm 8 September 2010 Meeting led by Rob Stein, notes by Nancy Proctor Attendees: Andrew Nugée, Imagineear Chris McLaren, Tristan Interactive Robert Genereux,...
View ArticleWill musuems include new iPod Touch cameras in mobile apps?
Apple unveiled the latest generation of its iPod Touch last week, featuring new front- and rear-facing cameras. The rear camera has been designed for a new videoconferencing app called Facetime. The...
View ArticleDC Area Mobile Meetup 17 Sept 2010, Holocaust Memorial Museum
Notes from the DC-area Mobile Meetup at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, 17 Sept 2010 What cultural organizations like about mobile: gives us feedback/evaluation tools allows us to offer more content to...
View ArticleDC Area Mobile Meetup, 4 Aug 2010, Newseum
Notes from the inaugural DC-area Mobile Meetup at the Newseum, 4 Aug 2010 -Augmented Reality – how we can utilize that Navigate mall in DC? Is there a possibility of collaboration with tourism, city...
View ArticleFoursquare, Gowalla & SCVNGR in DC
At our 17 Sept 2010 DC-area Mobile Meet-up at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, we agreed to follow up with online and in-person about possible collaborations on the Foursquare, Gowalla and/or SCVNGR...
View ArticleMobile clinic at MCN 2010
A cross between agony column and war room, this ‘unconference’ style workshop begins as soon as you sign up. Through the MCN2010 wiki, you are invited to pose your questions and mobile interpretation...
View ArticleA Hatchet Job on the Capitol Visitor Center’s Audio Tour
On Oct 5, 2010 Erika Lovley published “Health, safety risks alleged at Capitol Visitor Center” in Politico, alleging that “lice and body fluids” had been seen on the audio tour headsets provided at the...
View ArticleVantage Point at NMAI: Cross-platform mobile interpretation
In September 2010 the National Museum of the American Indian launched a cross-platform mobile interpretation solution for their contemporary art display, Vantage Point. It consists of a mobile website...
View ArticleWhat Does it Take to Get a Conversation Going?
Ed Rothstein’s article “From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided by Phone Apps” in The New York Times provoked lots of response, including my own blog post. People have continued to post interesting...
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Mobile Content Standards Summit US 2010b
Notes from the gathering at MCN 2010, Austin, TX 1-5pm 27 October 2010 Three asks of all who attended and read this blog post: Tell us if you are interested in using the spec/ Contribute your existing...
View ArticleDC’s Big Game Idea
Below is a concept for a pan-DC game for cultural institutions, proposed by Rachel Meskin of the Friends of the National Zoo and Kellian Adams of SCVNGR. It will be discussed in the DC Mobile...
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Leafsnap from the Smithsonian’s NMNH
Recruiting the world to help increase and diffuse knowledge of tree diversity and distribution Reposted from http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Leafsnap2 Sometimes it takes a while for the...
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Research on tablets for learning
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" running the Junaio AR browser Here at the British Museum’s Samsung Digital Discovery Centre, we are about to acquire a set of Samsung Galaxy Tabs for a large scale education...
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