Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks across the five boroughs – and we know that with the rise of mobile phones and digital media, the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize our powerful communications infrastructure, the City of New York is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones.
Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city? Submit your prototype by February 18th and you could help to shape the City’s future.
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Form Follows Function
FFF is a collection of interactive experiences. Each experience has its own unique design and functionality. All build with HTML5.
The Beat by Social Media Department at Rutgers
The Beat uses Instagram pictures users added to their map, and combine them with the corresponding Google StreetView location to help explore topics in a new way. Try it!
This is a project of the Social Media Information Lab, at the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers University.
Feel free to explore your own beat by putting a new topic in the search box.
http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/
As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living
Soon in the US there will be more app developers than lawyers. They already outnumbered farmers. That would be an ideal world, no divorce, no wheat. Play Letterpress all day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/business/as-boom-lures-app-creators-tough-part-is-making-a-living.html?hp&_r=0
