Socialight / blog+news

Socialight is covered in an article, titled Making Connections, Here and Now in the New York Times in yesterday’s special Circuits section. The article, by Ethan Todras-Whitehill, provides a nice overview of some of the applications that make up what he calls the “geospatial Web”.

Smart Mobs, one of our favourite blogs (and a great book) tracking the mobile/ubiquitous computing space has a short post discussing StickyShadows.

This Sunday’s New York Times has an article, titled Post-Its for Passers-By, about how Socialight is being used here in our hometown - New York City. There’s a bit on the story behind Socialight and a profile on how Socialight super-user, Robert Pietri, is using it to publish New York history and his personal history.

[scan of the article available here]

Super hip’n’snarky NYC real estate guide Curbed
is convinced that Socialight is “Further proof the Internet will destroy us all”. We’ll let you decide that one…

News of Socialight has spread to the Middle East. [article in Hebrew]

Paul Rubens does a really nice job explaining Socialight in this story, originally printed in the UK paper, The Guardian.

Peter Rojas of Engadget visited us at ITP, where we introduced him to Socialight.