Podcast: You are a Sensor
By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
July 15, 2008
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- HealthMap
- Internet crawling: a new tool for tracking infectious disease (press release)
- Web Hits Locate Earthquake (All Points Blog)
- CitySense Comes Out of Stealth Mode (All Points Blog)
- Sense Networks (company website)
- Navizon rewards page
- Dash Express
- ArcGIS 9.3 Map Export Patch to support Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF Information
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| Tim O'Reilly cites another example: bad cell phone connections being used to track rain in Israel. http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/05/instrumenting-the-world-1-cell.html He cites BBC which cites Science http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4974542.stm And here's an NPR story from 2006! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5389565 |
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