Originally posted by CEOs for Cities reblogged by Cluster
Mapumental is a remarkable new piece of technology that maps London according to price, commute time, and other attributes (even how scenic various neighborhoods are).
In this short video, mySociety’s Tom Steinberg explains what Mapumental does.

originally posted by whiteafrican.com reblogged by Cluster
The Grameen Foundation’s Applab has released a new suite of mobile phone applications developed in Uganda, using Google SMS Search and in partnership with MTN Uganda as the mobile operator. The services include:
* Farmer’s Friend: a searchable database with both agricultural advice and targeted weather forecasts
* Health Tips: [...]

Food for your eyes [3] - Locast from MIT Mobile Experience Lab on Vimeo.
Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI New Media. The project is fruit of an advanced research carried out by MIT Mobile Experience Lab and RAI New Media on [...]

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Once Upon a Time in the West
We keep on talking about “new media”, while in actually fact these media are anything but new. The Net is twenty years old, if we start counting from the advent of the Web, forty if we start from [...]

John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, talks about the role of design in finding solutions to the ecological crisis. A He makes the important point that the resources to be put in place already exist and that they might not necessitates complex technological developments.

Liftfrance09: John Thackara from Lift Conference on Vimeo.