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Apr 26
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Radio 4 Click On Interview – 16.30 Today and Online

By Media Coverage, radio 4 click on

Last week we went up to Broadcasting House in London and met the nice people behind the Radio 4 show ‘Click On’.

The show explores the latest developments in from the world of information technology, and how these affect our lives. We were interviewed about the latest project TalesofThings, where you can tag anything and everything and leave your memories attached to objects.

As part of the tagging architecture side of the work we officially ‘tagged’ broadcasting house. The TalesofThings qrcode is now in the lobby, pictured left is the Click On presenter Simon Cox. Using our free iPhone app you can record your memories of the building.

Indeed, you can tag anything – TalesofThings provides a free, quick and easy way to link any media to any object via small printable tags known as qr codes or rfid labels. How about tagging your old antique clock, a building, or perhaps that object you’re about to put on eBay. Last week we placed a tag on a wall in Camden Town, London which brings a long lost Banksy back to life, the tag can be scanned and new memories attached to it. Its an easy way to create a new type of network in the city.

Click On is broadcast Mondays at 4.30pm on Radio 4 with the podcast available shortly after.

Find out more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/clickon

Apr 23
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Banksy is Tagged – The Maid Returns to Camden

By bansky, Historical Imagery, talesofthings

As part of TalesofThings we are tagging the city, putting memories and history onto the streets and allow people to leave their own thoughts and experiences via the free TalesofThings qrcode and iPhone app.

One of our favorite parts of London was around Camden Town and the Bansky Maid stencil which is now sadly long gone due to the short sighted view of the council. However, before it was painted over we captured a 360 x 180 panorama of the site, allowing you to travel back in time and see how the wall looked.

The tag is now stuck to the wall, simply go up to Chalk Farm, scan the tag and see how the wall used to look, complete with a Banksy. You can also scan the tag direct from the image above using the free iPhone TalesofThings app.

You can tag anything and everything and get the app via talesofthings.com

Apr 22
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Free: The Digital Urban Booklet

By Posts

We are pleased to announce the free availability of our booklet: Digital Geography – Geographic Visualisation for Urban Environments. Previously available for £9.99 and printed in full colour the 10 x 8 inch booklet runs to 64 pages of insights and tutorials on Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google Maps, Panoramas and Second Life.
With a focus on Neogeography, Web 2.0 and the various emerging techniques for urban visualisation the booklet has been written as a preview to the forthcoming Digital Urban ‘recipe book.
We have made the booklet available via Issuu – you can read it below:

We hope you enjoy the booklet, it works well in full screen mode. You can also download it direct as a pdf file (74Mb).
You can read the rest of our publications via our main publications thread.

Apr 21
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Making ‘Objects’ Tweet

By er, googlemaps, internet of things, qrcodes, rfid, talesofthings, Twitter

You may of noticed that we recently launched our project ‘TalesofThings‘, a site that tags any media to any object using qrcodes or rfid tags:

Once tagged each object basically gets its own webpage allowing comments to be placed, new media added such as YouTube clips, Audioboo, Vimeo etc and new tales tagged to the codes.

An interesting take on this is that once these tags are placed in the wild and scanned with the free iPhone app they become read/writable and therefore location aware. As such any object you tag with the site can ‘Tweet’ each time it is scanned. If you tag a landmark for example, each time that tag is read you can get a tweet that says ‘Hey, I’ve just been scanned’. Once scanned new tales or comments can be added to that tag, creating a social network of ‘things’ and ‘locations’.

We are working on ways to make the objects more location aware and aware of near by objects, it could be interesting over the next few months to see how this develops. You can see all the things added to far on the ‘world of things map’:

You can start tagging anything and everything via talesofthings.com

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