OpenTrek is a peer-to-peer networking platform specifically designed for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Using OpenTrek it is possible to create advanced multiplayer games for mobile devices.

Free Network Visible Network co-led by the Laboratorio de Luz of Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia propose to make visible the interchanged information between computers of a wireless network connected to Internet. The main objective is to ask for the free access to the net and at the same time to make actions in the urban landscape as a way to create new meanings in the public domain.

My slide producing tree blossomed again today.

People at the Fribourg School of Engineering showed my their first implemantion of ShoutSpace on their campus. They are moving forward with some sort 3D indoor positioning system. Via Breeze and ShoutSpace, I could follow them walking around their CS building. We used Skype for oral communication.

And a 1 minutes .mov video (2.5MB).

My Kartoo map shows up some good results and relations: software engineer, epfl, craft, tecfa, partick jermann, pascal betz. Funny that it does not show information from the past (isbiel, california, …). Kartoo does not seem to be much blog aware.

I will attend the First Workshop of the Pervasive and Locative Arts Network (PLAN) in London February 1 and 2. The programme is promising.

Via Technorati, excellent comment by teeny tiny blog on this blog: “Wardriving and Catchbob I’m not even sure what this guy is talking about half the time”. I’ll take that as a compliment

THISS est une étude de l’ETHZ qui compare, en Suisse, les créateurs d’entreprises avec des non-créateur ou des créateurs potentiels. Elle thématise en outre les différences liées au fait que les diplômé(e)s ont suivi une EPF ou une HES:
Ecoles polytechniques et innovations – Start-ups et Spin-offs sous l’angle particulier de la formation, de la formation continue et des structures de support.

- 1/5 ingénieur ou informaticien sortant d’une haute école suisse fonde sa propre entreprise
- 50% d’entre eux envisagent de le faire
- L’indépendance, l’épanoussement personnel et le désir de diriger sa propre entreprise sont des motivations fondamentales (pas l’argent)
- 40 à 50% des ces jeunes entrepreneurs se trouvent dans les chiffres noires après deux ans d’activités

Résumé en français
Résultats en allemand

Maps of a wardriving session by the people at wardriving.ch in Zürich in October 2004: Wardriver Treffen.