Archive for November, 2006
The Corporation is one of the best documentary movies ever. It deals with the role of corporations in our world and describes the insane situation we have gotten ourselves into. I remember leaving the cinema back in 2004 with the intense feeling of “We need to do something!”. This project, the Mobile Prosumer, is one result.
Now the movie has courageously been released as a free bittorrent download. If you don’t know it yet: download and watch it, spread the word and support the filmmakers by contributing: The Corporation Filmmakers Official Download Edition (1.76 GB)
November 29th, 2006
Der Mobile Prosumer liegt offensichtlich im Trend: Die Berliner Stadtzeitung Zitty bringt das Thema nachhaltiger Konsum als Titelgeschichte. Leider ist die umfangreiche Linksammlung nicht online.
November 26th, 2006
Florian is going to talk about the Mobile Prosumer at GS1 meeting Communication in the 21st century (Kommunikation im 21. Jahrhundert) in Köln on 7 December. As we try to be good company, we will fly together. I expect to meet some interesting people there. Maybe we can also get some valuable feedback for our project.
November 24th, 2006
We have just started wiki.mobileprosumer.com to collect the relevant content for the Mobile Prosumer. Most of our research and text work can be found there. Please, help filling the wiki with available material and (re)structuring the content there. You are very much invited to touch!
November 23rd, 2006
The economist has a nice article on using swarm effects in supermarkets.
November 21st, 2006
We went to the Near Field Interactions workshop during NordiCHI 2006 in Oslo, where we gave a short presentation about the Mobile Prosumer. A review and some pictures of the workshop can be found here.
November 19th, 2006
I have written a short paper about the Mobile Prosumer for the Mobile Business course.
Abstract:
The internet of things is only a few steps away and promises interesting opportunities in mobile business. The really ubiquitous computer distributed worldwide today is the mobile phone. In this paper, we introduce The Mobile Prosumer, a mobile phone application with corresponding server infrastructure for delivering relevant product information to consumers at the Point of Sale.
We describe the theoretical and social context, our implementation of a prototype and explain how starting this market is possible today with available web content and already ubiquitous EAN barcodes. Our approach anticipates integration of the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and a global service oriented information system, which will make this business the next big thing.
Please, download and read the paper. Your feedback is highly appreciated.
November 19th, 2006
Hi. Welcome to the new and shiny Mobile Prosumer devblog.
As we try to follow up on the past development and keep you updated with new findings, we believe a blog is a good idea. Let’s post links, papers, presentations, prototypes and whatever cool stuff we come up with, here! Members of the project teams can register here.
Don’t forget to tell what has already happened.
November 19th, 2006