While more place than people, this might be of interest to the ASN
community. (01)
Tom Lowenhaupt (02)
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From: "Anthony Townsend" <anthony.townsend@nyu.edu>
To: "Urban Technology & Telecommunications" <telecom-cities@forums.nyu.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:47 PM
Subject: TagAndScan (03)
heard it through the grapevine. (04)
>
>
> TagandScan launches across all major UK mobile networks
>
> Innovative personal location-based service promises to extend senses
> with a geographical layer of information
>
> London, December 1st 2003: An innovative location-based service has
> launched today, which promises to extend people’s senses with a new
> geographical layer of information. TagandScan gives mobile users a
> ‘sixth sense’ of information about their environment through their GPRS
> Java-enabled mobile phones. The service is available on any of the UK’s
> major mobile networks: Vodafone, Orange, O2 and T-Mobile.
>
> Subscribers have access to public ‘grids’ of information visible to all
> Tagandscan subscribers or an unlimited number of private grids that
> only
> the individual can see. Public grids enable users to see history,
> explanations, events, reviews and opinions of anything located in the
> physical world, which become available to users when they ‘scan’ for
> tags by proximity and keyword, then displaying the results on a map.
>
> To leave their own mark on the virtual world , users ‘tag’ a location
> with their mobile phone, creating a digital record of the location,
> time, their thoughts and opinions, and even a picture - effectively
> leaving ‘digital Post-Its’ or ‘digital graffiti’ in the world around
> you. TagandScan users subsequently ‘scan’ to recall the information
> left by themselves or others at the touch of a button.
>
> Significant benefits of the service include:
>
> * Improving spatial memory: Whilst many people can forget how to
> get to a great bar, shop or restaurant that they have been to,
> TagandScan users can tag it and forget it. Users can build up a
> complete picture of the places they love best in the world around them
>
> * Community development: Users can tag locations, anything from
> bars and shops through to people and national monuments, with a
> message,
> time and even a picture which they can then leave behind for the
> community - effectively creating the worlds first peer-to-peer guide
> book
>
> * Public expression: Whilst graffiti is illegal, ‘digital
> graffiti’ is not. Users can tag places with public messages or just
> commemorate a personal event
>
> Inventor of TagandScan Ryan Janssen commented: “I initially created
> this
> because I was always finding interesting places around my city, then
> never finding them again. I wanted some way of supplementing my own
> spatial memory so I could interact a bit more intelligently with my
> environment.”
>
> Tagandscan works over existing GPRS networks and is free to download
> from mobile phones at get.tagandscan.com. Pre-purchased tags will sell
> at 25p in £5 bundles or 20p in £20 bundles.
> (05)
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