Monday, August 31. 2009

iPhone, API and More Come to Burning Man

Brady over at O'Reilly details the new tech coming to the weeklong party on the playa gearing up this week in Nevada. (I've never attended, but have friends who have. I did spend a week on the playa flying kites.)

There are two really interesting socialogical, rather than tech insights from the post. First off, there's the concept that Blackrock City (that's the name of the temporary city) is a great place to test out new ideas. There's an iPhone app, a Foursquare implementation and efforts to use machine tagging in Flickr. It is a literal "blank slate" (this year with wireless, fingers crossed) with lots of geeks and artists.

Second, there's this year's theme of "evolution" and the response of some noting how tech may well intrude. The places where there's no connectivity are becoming fewer and fewer.

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Using GPS/GIS on the playa isn't too new. Even the government has been doing so to monitor the event.

http://www.spatial-ed.com/index.php/projects/monitoring-at-burning-man.html

#1 liltex775 on 2009-09-03 17:35 (Reply)

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