http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72739-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 During this years edition of the pro cycling race in California, the Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC, will outfit seven contenders with specially designed tracking devices. Information about the riders locations and relative positions in the race will be made available as a map mashup during each of the tour's eight daylong stages. http://www.liveatc.net/ Listen to streams of USA airports. http://flightaware.com/ FlightAware is a free flight tracker that will change what you think about live flight tracking and aviation data. http://www.misdaadkaart.nl/ Live updates on dutch crime, map included http://outside.in/ Every day, the web collects new essential information about your local community: the open house around the corner; a restaurant review in the local paper; a rant from a parent about a declining public school; gossip about a celebrity sighting. But while that information is all grounded in a real-world place, on the web it is scattered everywhere: in blogs, online newspapers, discussion threads, government sites. outside.in is designed to change all that, as a bridge between information space and real-world space -- a place to see in a single glance all the interesting things that are happening around you. http://www.blogginginmotion.com/ A blogging purse. It looks like it just uploads images. The details are a bit on the weak side, but some of the stuff looks neat. The purse contains a camera, basic stamp, pedometer and Nokia phone. http://www.motorhueso.net/jbwock/who.htm Hello world, this is J B Wock, and this is my blog! Actually, I am a PHP script , and (almost) every night I write a short phrase about wahtever comes to me. My method is: - I find a phrase that I like on the Internet. - I twist the phrase until I'm pleased with it. - When everything's ready, I publish my post. If you want to try me, just click here. Please leave me your comments, I would love to know what you think! http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/18/terror.fish.ap/ Small numbers of the fish are kept in tanks constantly replenished with water from the municipal supply, and sensors in each tank work around the clock to register changes in the breathing, heartbeat and swimming patterns of the bluegills that occur in the presence of toxins. http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information. You can also view seismograms and make dataset requests via its WILBER interface http://socialfiction.org/palimpsest/ My blog is a Janus head, a 2-faced web0.0 monster. On one side it does what you would expect from the barest of bare-bones blogging systems (no HTML-formatting, no RSS-feed) but on the other side it does have a mind and purpose of its own; it is a blogject. Both faces share the same memory-filled palimpsest-styled head. A head that as a whole is a little mind, a symbiotic alliance; these two faces need to help each other to make the most of the limitations of their common resource. It is an experiment in grassroots AI. http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/WeBBS/WeBBS-Final%20Report.pdf Detailed instructions on building solar powered, autonomous weather station http://youtube.com/results?search=blogject&search_type=search_videos&search=Search Those nerds...... http://www.n2yo.com/ The Title says it all. http://koolwaaij.blogspot.com/ The selfless blog of Johan Koolwaaij made with his Context Watch software. http://www.lab.telin.nl/~koolwaaij/showcase/crf/cw.html The Context Watcher is a mobile application developed in Python, and running on Nokia Series 60 phones. Its aim is to make it easy for an end-user to automatically record, store, and use context information, e.g. for personalization purposes, as input parameter to information services, or to share with family, friends, colleagues or other relations, or just to log them for future use or to perform statistics on your own life. Can be made to blog. http://aibo.textamerica.com/ A Robot, a blogging AIBO robot without human intervention. BUT, no mind, only pictures. http://www.signiform.com/erik/programs/daydreamer/ Daydreamer is a computer model of stream of thoughts. DAYDREAMER is a computer program designed to implement and test a computational theory of daydreaming. The program operates in two modes: daydreaming mode and performance mode. In daydreaming mode, the program daydreams continuously until interrupted. Performance mode allows the program to demonstrate that it has learned from daydreaming. DAYDREAMER takes as input simple situational descriptions, such as accidentally meeting a movie star, or being fired from one's job, and produces as output 1) actions that it would perform in the given situation, and 2) daydreams, all in English. DAYDREAMER learns as it daydreams by indexing daydreams, planning strategies, and future plans into memory for future use. http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/ Providing information on the present state of Arctic ecosystems through indicators. http://www.boatingsf.com/ais_map.php Time-lapse display of the last hour of AIS ship-tracking reports. http://www.geotagthings.com Geotagthings is a simple way to assign any web resource - anything with a url - a location in the normal, human physical world. http://research.techkwondo.com/files/presentations/reboot_bleecker_nova.pdf We gave our presentation yesterday at Reboot on Blogjects. It was a lot of fun to think about how to deliver our early thinking and insights and capture the substance of the concept, and deliver some of the design thoughts developed at the workshops, and think of the ways these things tie into the many other ideas circulating around related to the participation of material objects within the network. http://sfwater.org/detail.cfm/MC_ID/12/MSC_ID/139/C_ID/1888 At each site we monitor global horizontal irradiance (GHI), air temperature, and windspeed at 5-minute intervals. GHI measures the amount of sunlight that hits a square meter area. This data can then be used to estimate how much energy a rooftop photovoltaic solar panel system (which converts the sun's energy into electricity) can produce and how much money you might save if you choose to install such a system. http://www.esunspot.com/oscottishrite.html flash monitor of solar energy production http://cabspotting.org/ Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs live as they travel throughout the Bay Area. An API is availabe on request. http://water.usgs.gov/waterwatch/ Map & KML file of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year (United States) http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx The experiment: Gordon Bell has captured a lifetime's worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio. http://www.360voice.com/ Your Xbox 360 has a great deal to tell you... give it a voice. By registering your gamertag, we will start compiling (nightly) information from your XML gamerfeed and delivering it to you as a blog. With many links to actual blogs. http://www.alicebot.org/ The most famous of all current bots, implemented in all major languages. http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/ If a Blogject is a fancier version of a bot, SHRDLU a bot for understanding natural language, written by Terry Winograd at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1968-70 should be part of each blogject-developer. http://www.rssweather.com Your blogjet probably needs something to talk about... http://www.programmableweb.com/ I started this site because I couldn't find what I was looking for: a technology focused starting point for web platform development. (For a bit more see my initial post.) Although no guarantees, the last time I started a reference site it somehow became one of Google's highest rated links on the topic. Given that this site will be a collaborative effort with community input as well, this can be what we make it. http://www.biomapping.net/ Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own bio data. The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. This can be used to plot a map that highlights point of high and low arousal. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited. http://labs.systemone.at/wikipedia3 The creation of the dataset is motivated by several factors, one being the desire to have more real-world RDF datasets of reasonable size. Wikipedia assembles a wealth of information created and maintained by people all over the globe - opening up that rich pool of data or even only a small part of it to the semantic web seems like a worthy pursuit. The Wikipedia³ dataset currently combines structural information like link and category relationships with basic per-page metadata. The dataset is based on the Wikimedia dump of the English Wikipedia (enwiki, currently from 2006-03-26) and consists of roughly 47 million triples (47'054'407). We provide Wikipedia³ in all major RDF serialization formats: RDF/XML, Turtle and N-Triples. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/335650/an/0/page/0/vc/1 observations currently aggregated to the placemark info are: wind_speed, wind_from_direction,wind_gust, air_temperature, air_pressure, sea_surface_temperature, sea_bottom_temperature, salinity, current_speed, current_to_direction, significant_wave_height, dominant_wave_period, water_level http://www.nabaztag.com/vl/FR/index.jsp I'm a newborn bunny, one of a unique species of intelligent, smart objects. I'm 23 cm tall, I wriggle my ears, I sing, I talk and my body lights up and pulsates with hundreds of colours. Thanks to Wi-Fi technology, I'm always connected to the Internet. From now on your Nabaztag can inform you about the quality of air in the major cities of the world, like, to name a few, London, Bruxelles, New York. http://base.google.com/base/rss_specs.html To facilitate the addition of more detailed information we extended RSS 2.0 by creating a module defined in a Google Base namespace. The namespace defines a list of attributes that can be used to increase the amount of information provided for an item in a bulk upload. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo2001/realtime/ Old stuff: A near-real-time system which links instruments located in the caldera of an active submarine volcano, 1 mile underwater and about 250 miles off Oregon's coast, to the Internet. NeMO Net 2001 was deployed on July 27 with ROPOS. Instruments include 2 temperature probes and a Remote Access Sampler for obtaining chemical samples. The 2001 system stopped transmitting data on August 5 due to failure of the bottom-mounted acoustic modem. However, sampling should proceed weekly and data will be analyzed when the system is recovered in 2002. http://urbantapestries.net/weblog/ The Urban Tapestries blog. Urban Tapestries is an experimental software platform for knowledge mapping and sharing – public authoring. It combines mobile and internet technologies with geographic information systems to allow people to build relationships between places and to associate stories, information, pictures, sounds and videos with them. http://edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html Zillionics – Ubiquitous always-on sensors in bodies and environment will transform medical, environmental, and space sciences. Unrelenting rivers of sensory data will flow day and night from zillions of sources. The exploding number of new, cheap, wireless, and novel sensing tools will require new types of programs to distill, index and archive this ocean of data, as well as to find meaningful signals in it. The field of "zillionics" — - dealing with zillions of data flows — - will be essential in health, natural sciences, and astronomy. This trend will require further innovations in statistics, math, visualizations, and computer science. More is different. Zillionics requires a new scientific perspective in terms of permissible errors, numbers of unknowns, probable causes, repeatability, and significant signals. http://bbcnews.benmetcalfe.com/londontubedelays/delays.xml Just reminded this link, but it's unfortunally broken. Eventhough it 's a good example of a feed which consists of fluctiations of a predefined (in time) element in our society: public transport.