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10 Interesting facts about Jasper's Geo Media Browser

| Friday 23 2010 | Coffee to the People Cafe, The Haight, San Francisco |

10 Interesting facts about Jasper's Geo Media Browser

1. Jasper considers it to be an autonomous javascript lifeform.
2. It is geo-visual data from Flickr mashed into GoogleFeeds and GoogleMaps.
3. The markers represent experience trails documented in date-stamped geo-tagged photos in the Flickr Geo Cloud.
4. The geo-browser javascript app lives entirely within the the context of your Web Browser. It is born there, it lives there, and when you shut the browser tab, it dies there.
5. The Jasper on your screen is an object within the Geo Browser. This singularity is named jasper.
6. The Jasper leaves a  trail on the map, a record of his travel or line of flight. The color of the experience trail is different each time jasper performs his dance.

7. Jasper's photos are ethnographies of a parallel future that is happening right now in greater San Francisco.
8. The Javascript Geo Browser creature pulls resources from the cloud to compete for the attention of the you, the viewer.
9. The DNA for the Geo Browser lives in the GitHub. Anyone can get a GitHub account, fork the evolution of the app and mutate it. This is successful competition and reproduction.
10. The Geo Browser is a first step in the exploration of "thick" geo temporal data. The kind of data with which we will program socio-technical assemblages in the not-so-distant future.

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• 23 July 2010
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