Urban Tapestries. Social Tapestries: Public Authoring in the Wireless City

Found a social media, geo-tagging experiment that has been done in the past involving mobile technology. Unfortunately, the project is beyond its active stage, all program source codes, live-feeds etc, are all gone.

"Urban Tapestries is an interactive, location-based wireless application allowing users to access and author location-specific multimedia content. It is a forum for sharing experience and knowledge, for leaving ephemeral races of peoples' presence in the geography of the city...Users will be able to add new locations, location content and the 'threads' which link individual locations to local contexts. Urban Tapestries privileges the experience of the user over typical 'publishing' systems which control and author the user experience." From the Urban Tapestries Website



Uses of Urban Tapestries will be able to select threads to follow or drift across all threads. Users are able to add locations be tagging the GPS co-ordinates and uploading it to a central server, along with related content such as text, sounds, movies and images. For more immediate social interactions, a time-limited street graffiti system will enable users to leave messages tagged to locations (a local event announcement, an observation). Users can create their own threads through an area (favorite places, significant places) and upload them for others to access.





"Urban Tapestries also aims to be a platform for anonymous people-to-people communication...An integral part of the system will be a time-limited 'street graffiti' system to enable people to leave messages for others that will fade with time." From: Giles Lane. Urban Tapestries: Wireless networking, public authoring and social knowledge.

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