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New version of Eye on Earth site – more data, less visible!

by Tom Raftery on December 1, 2009 · 5 comments

in pollution

Photo credit Tom Raftery
We last wrote about the Eye on Earth site in July 2008. If you can’t remember that far back, a quick recap – Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe”.
EyeOnEarth, the [...]

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Mobile phones – distributed air quality sensor network?

by Tom Raftery on July 21, 2009 · 16 comments

in sustainability

Since giving my talk on sustainability in the mobile phone sector at Mobile 2.0 in Barcelona a few weeks back and writing my post about how Augmented Reality on mobiles could be transformative for Green tech I have been thinking a lot about how mobiles could make a significant positive contribution to the planet.
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I wish I were a software developer!

by Tom Raftery on July 9, 2009 · 64 comments

in softwaredevelopment

I was peripherally aware of Augmented Reality before attending the Mobile 2.0 conference in Barcelona a few weeks back but hadn’t really thought through its consequences/possibilities until I saw the video above by Dutch startup company Layar.
I realised that Layar’s offering was geographically limited but its potential (esp in the Green space) was enormous – [...]

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