Archive for April, 2008

Wissen 2.0 - Semapedia on FTD.de

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Titled ‘Knowledge 2.0′, Andreas Halbert of Financial Times Germany wrote a very nice post on Semapedia this Friday.
He starts out describing the service step by step, encourages the reader to go and start tagging (with proper permission of course) and also makes notes on possible improvements (such as that our explanation are a bit […]

Semapedia in Arabic! As-Salamu Alaykum - السلام عليكم

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Everyone,
with great pleasure we want to announce the official lauch of the Arab version of Semapedia today! It is exciting for us to welcome new friends from Arab-speaking countries to join our quest to bring the right information to the places where it matters.
Without the incredible on-going help, patience and in-depth reviews […]

Bar Code Sales Tool Is Failing Campus Test

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Just a very short post: Everybody was sending around the New York Times article about scanbuy yesterday. “Bar Code Sales Tool Is Failing Campus Test”, a little far fetched I would say, two quick points:
a.) so you are on a bus stop and there is a barcode to download the bus schedule. Great Idea, not. […]

Rant

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/26/BU1LVQQOB.DTL

“For tourists visiting San Francisco, Antenna Audio offers free listening tours. The company, based in Sausalito, is placing dozens of bar codes around the city in places like Union Square or at the base of the Transamerica Pyramid.”
People in SF will soon find stickers on places that link to a mobilized version of citysearch […]