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Magnus Manske wrote:
I just found this site:
http://www.semapedia.org
It is supposed to tag "physical objects" with the barcode of a wikipedia
URL. Basically, you enter the URL of a wikipedia article, and it prints
a chessboard-like box with black and white squares. You then glue this
sheet of paper onto the object (after asking permission!), for example,
a famous building.
The site also offers a Java software for cell phones with a camera.
Anyone with that software can now take a picture of the sheet of paper
with the cell phone, and the software will convert it back into a URL,
which you can then open on the cell phone to see the article about that
building.
I, for one, welcome our new tagging overlords! I am currently printing
the URL of my user page to glue it to my forehead, so people can find
out who I am without having to talk to me ;-)
Yeah, I'd heard of that before (not sure if it was the same site, but it
was the same idea). Not all of us have cameras though, let alone phones
with them...
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