First free Cloud Image Recognition Engine #AR #SDK

ElipseAR is a set of tools for Augmented Reality and Computer Vision development.

#Museomix: 3 days to sketch the museum we dream of – for real

3 days to sketch the museum we dream of – for real ! During this long weekend from november 11th to 13th, we will meet in a museum to prototype new engagement experiences. During these 3 days, we mix our ideas and our skills to create a museum that is no longer a cathedral, a [...]

Museum Contests onTwitter, guidelines

Some museums have a contest on Twitter. Twitter has published some useful guidelines for running contests: Discourage the creation of multiple accounts: If users make lots of accounts in order to enter a contest more than once, they’re liable to get all of their accounts suspended. Please be sure to include a rule stating that [...]

Report: Mediamatic conference Kom je ook 3 ‘the public as programmer’

The ‘public as programmer’ was the focus of the third edition of Kom je Ook? (Are You Coming Too?), that took place on the 26th of November 2009. We offered an energising programme with foreign speakers, Dutch case studies and do it yourself. The location was the Bernard Haitinkzaal in the new Conservatory of Amsterdam. [...]

Twitter and Penguins: How the San Francisco Zoo Uses Twitter

We know there are a lot of interesting and unique uses for Twitter. We’ve seen Twitter used for customer service, tweets to monitor power usage, and even 140 character marriage proposals, but we never thought about it being used to quickly respond to incidents such as a kid being bit by an otter. Earlier today, a group of Twitter enthusiasts [...]

Microsoft LookingGlass: analyseert social media

Als we campagnes maken en Social Media gebruiken, wat natuurlijk niet een gek idee is tegenwoordig, dan is het vaak niet altijd makkelijk om dingen meetbaar te maken. Meetbaarheid is natuurlijk wel een vereiste voor effectiviteit. Maar in de jungle van Social Media lijkt het vrij lastig om daar grip op te krijgen. Dit gegeven [...]

Science News Gallery at the Science Museum

Antenna is the science news gallery at the Science Museum in London. Our blog is a space for discussing science stories hitting the headlines, and we want to know what you think. What are your hopes and fears about the latest scientific developments? How do you feel they will affect your life? via Antenna @ [...]

Push vCards

Imagine taking a picture of someone’s business card with your mobile phone and instantly being transferred to a page with specific information about them. That’s what advertising agency Push has done with its executive business cards—a physical version of a vCard. More: Push vCards.

United Nations awards Simon Fraser University designers

The award winning website was developed for the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology by whiz kids and specialists from the Learning and Instructional Development Centre LIDC at SFU. More… United Nations awards Simon Fraser University designers for developing the best web content in the world.

Mobile Libraries: Cultivating Personalized Museum Tours …

The CHIP Cultural Heritage Information Presentation project offers tools to the users to be their own curators, e.g. browsing the online collections, planning a personalized museum tour suiting their art interests, getting some recommendations about interesting artworks to see, and quickly finding their ways in the museum. Source: Mobile Libraries: Cultivating Personalized Museum Tours