On Feb 21, 2013 Penn State announced that it will join several dozen universities in offering massive open online courses or MOOCs via the for profit Coursera company. Among the Penn State MOOCs to be offered later this year is what is believed to be the first geography or GIS MOOC: Maps and the Geospatial Revolution. Its author, Dr. Anthony Robinson discusses the role of MOOCs at Penn State and the development of the first Geo-MOOC.
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Building the World’s First Geo-MOOC: An Interview with Penn State’s Anthony Robinson
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Franck Biancheri: From European Chaos to New World Order
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Beyond Check-Ins: Location Based Game Design
This dual presentation will explore common play elements in location-based games. We’ll analyze the popular "Check-In" mechanic (used by products like FourSquare and GoWalla), and take a look at the business and social forces that have influenced its emergence as the popular geo game model. The presentation will compare current location-based products, charting their strengths and weaknesses to identify where we believe large areas of opportunity exist in the market. We’ll evaluate the challenges and untapped opportunities of Geo Games from the technological and design perspectives of the two presenters. We’ll outline how the limitations in location technology can be an elegant part of the game design itself, and how new innovations will help to create richer and more immersive parallel worlds. We’ll describe why we think its time to move beyond "social" Check-In systems, to “true games” that engage, challenge, and stimulate players.
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Josh Williams — Keynote: Where are we going?
Today’s web is being defined more than ever by buzz words, catch phrases, fads and trends. Startups are being cre ated for star tups sake, stan dards are being hijacked by so-called “social media gurus,” and investors are pil ing on one after another look ing to hop on the next big wave. And we, the designers, developers and innovators actually building the web, are left to wonder if we’re still in the drivers seat.
During this brisk dis cus sion we’ll sep a rate fads from the future, debate native apps ver sus the mobile web, take an hon est look at the hype behind geo-location, then take a step back to ask our selves where the web—and we ourselves—are going. Hold on, it’s going to be a wild ride!
Josh Williams is CEO and co-founder of Gowalla, a mobile and Web service that gives people around the world a new way to communicate and express themselves through the everyday places and extraordinary settings they enjoy. Gowalla empowers everyone to capture and share their journey as they go while following the happenings of family and friends. Josh is responsible for building and growing the business while leading the product design team. Gowalla was launched in 2009 and is backed by notable investors including Greylock Partners, Alsop-Louie Partners, Founders Fund, and other prominent angel investors. Josh is a self-taught designer and artist who has been creating online for over 15 years. Josh loves mid-century modern design, architecture, skiing, snowboarding and longboarding. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two young daughters.
http://www.webdirections.org/resources/josh-williams-keynote-where-are-we-going/
Tagged with web directions josh williams location geo maps goawalla social media ux place
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Introduction To Yahoo Geo Technologies
By Christian Heilmann
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Where is Everything? The Geoweb Tsunami.
RMIUG Podcast #2: Our second podcast is a full broadcast of our 09 March 2010 meeting called “Where is Everything? The Geoweb Tsunami.” featuring Duncan McCall of PublicEarth.
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Mapping the Maximum City
With over 14 million people, half of which are squatters or slumdwellers, Mumbai is indeed a "maximum city" according to Schuyler Erle. The obstacles to constructing housing for Mumbai’s huge homeless population pile up long before any plan is drawn: to submit a redevelopment project the area is required to be mapped, and before you can make a map you need reliable data.
Erle describes a daunting challenge to mapping Mumbai: the only data available consisted of many very detailed, but hand-drawn maps, which had been vectorized with no common geographical reference. One of the steps required to go from there to a complete geographical dataset, recounts Erle, involved people covering Mumbai using GPS devices to gather control points.
Tagged with where2.0 schuyler erie geo maps opensource gps
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A News Feed for Your Block
In this presentation from the 2008 O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Adrian Holovaty shares how his site. EveryBlock.com, aggregates data from a variety of sources to provide a feed for the news, events, and civic goings-on that have happened, or will happen, in your city. Thus, mEveryBlock makes it simple to keep track of news for a very specific area. EveryBlock builds their feed by including data about crimes, property transactions, zoning changes, construction permits, movie filming, business reviews, pictures and more.
O’Reilly Media Where 2.0 Conference 24 minutes, 11.3mb, recorded 2008-05-13
Tagged with government location geo mapped mapping maps local hyperlocal neighborhood
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Steven Johnson - The Urban Web
Steven Johnson (author of "The Ghost Map") discusses the transformative power of spacial representations of our world…from Deconstruct 08.