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überthings, inc is lovingly crafted from bits of OPC (other people’s code) by Michael Eyal Sharon, a writer, programmer, musician, designer (isn’t everybody these days?) and occasional artist. Photo by Andreas Weigend Mini-colophon: This site used to run on Movable Type, but I got sick of rebuilding every five seconds. Wordpress came to my rescue soon afterwards and we’ve been living in sin ever since. I was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, raised mostly in Johannesburg, South Africa and am currently based in New York City. Here’s a semi-official (and outdated) bio: Michael is a media artist, writer and programmer whose work runs the gamut from mobile social software to gestural music interfaces to big games and everything in between. He is the co-founder and CTO of Socialight, a New York-based company developing social media tools for mobile devices. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s GSAPP co-teaching a class in Big Urban Games. He is an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, teaching a class called Mobile Application Design. His work has been featured in a number of outlets including The Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Wired, The Guardian, The London Times, Business…
Mobile
A section for all things mobile
Projects
links for 2007-03-29
GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs
Super useful application for server side data manipulation of GPS waypoints, tracks and routes.
(tags:
gps
api
geotagging
gis
hacks
interface
linux
osx
opensource
technology
tools
metadata
geocoding
geolocation
geospatial
geo
)
Locatrix – Home
Another LBS company developing a MoSoSo. Acronymville, here I come.
(tags:
location
networks
platforms
social
social_software
wireless
)
Posted
March 29, 2007
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