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MobileBarcodeCamp, November 3, New York City

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Dave Haper from Winksite, Kevin Slavin from area/code and Alexis & me are hosting a mobile barcode barcamp — everybody can present, but you don’t have to (just to clarify)– in New York City. The date is set to november 3rd but might move up to november 10th. We keep you posted.
We invite everybody […]

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

and we are back again, mothership wikipedia had some problems;)

Outage

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

the mobile wikipedia is down right now, we let you know once the issue is resolved

MobileCampNYC, 19th of May

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

I am happy to annouce that we are going to have MobileCampNYC focussing on mobility and mobile culture coming on the 19th of May. Participation is encouraged and free!
A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, […]

Mobilized! Unconference

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Over the weekend the much anticipated Mobilized! un-conference took place. There was a meetup on Saturday at Eyebeam on 21st Street with an intricate presentation by Siva Vaidhyanathan with a following interesting paneldiscussion.
On to sunday for the actual un-conference, hence people meeting up and sessions and workshops are being assigned participants and a room […]

Dutch

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

We have a Dutch Version of Semapedia. YEAH!! Credit goes to the mobile phone and barcode enthusiast Marc Fonteijn. Make sure to keep an eye on his blog www.marcathing.com and his flickr stream!
We are excited to see some our tags pop up in the Netherlands.
http://nl.semapedia.org

QR Code appearing in printed cartoon

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Interesting find in the May issue of Monocle, a magazine on global affairs, business, culture and design: In the back part of the magazine there is a manga cartoon (with a nice introduction ‘how’ to read such a cartoon) and embedded in the story you can find a working QR code that reveals important information […]

6000 Tags

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Dear friends, with your help, interest, and enthusiasm we have reached the creation of the 6000th Semapedia Tag since our relaunch early 2006! Every day we are amazed about the variety of Wikipedia articles you come up with and which find their home back in the real world. We encourage you to take advantage of […]

Nokias new NFC Device: The Nokia 6131 NFC phone

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Awesome news just about right on time with our previous post - Nokia released its’ first massmarket NFC-enabled phone today! The possibilities with such a device are amazing and we hope to soon be able to play around with it as well. Happiness!

Next generation Semapedia - Near Field Communication hotness

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Near Field Communication is what we believe the next logical step in physical hyperlinking and we are happy to show you our first experiments with one of the first NFC-enabled phones, the Nokia 3220.
The goal in principle is to reflect the capabilities of 2D barcodes (storing a Semapedia URL on a Tag, attaching […]