Friday, June 13, 2008

Semipedia

The future is tagging. I mean tagging everything both virtual and real.
Check out Semapedia. It's really cool. The goal of semapedia "is to connect the virtual
and physcial world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space." So, here's the deal. You can create a type of barcode that when viewed -with the right software - with a click of your phone's camera - links a person to information that is available about something on Wikipedia. For example, I've created a barcode for the California State Library that I can place anywhere. If someone, has the right software and takes a picture of it, their phone will lead them to the Wikipedia entry for the California State Library. Pretty Cool. Someday, you will be able to point your mobile device at almost anything and get info...This is the prime time for libraries to play!!!

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