Ad-Hoc Banksy tour, in SF, thanks to @foursquare
Last week while in San Francisco, Danijela and I stopped at an Italian restaurant to have a light snack. When we went to check-in, on foursquare, we noticed that there was a Gallery icon nearby with the words “Banksy Mural: Airstrike” next to it. To both our excitement we realized that people had tagged Bansky’s street art as locations on foursquare, which prompted us to track down (by searching Banksy, to get the next closest on a map) 2 other peices (here, and here) that day and 2 more before it was time to go home.
This was a use of foursquare that we had never used before and were really happy to have stumbled upon it… had it not been for a quick check-in we would have missed some great art thoughout the city. Win!
Photo by Michael Siedel (via Flickr)
Thanks all for coming out to listen to me speak about User Experience Design on the Mobile Platform, and contributing, at the MKE UX event on Wednesday!
UPDATE - The meeting recap have now also been posted here.
@refrig - you need milk
For a while I was tying to find a real concrete use for Twitter v a FaceBook-like status updater, I think I found a move towards a very valid use. It appears there is a big movement by device manufacturers to place twitter capabilities into its products to inform you of changes. My Ey-Fi card, that I purchased, Twitters me when it has found Wi-Fi internet and offloaded all my photos to my Flickr account, thus letting me know that all my pics are safe and that my SD card is empty. The newest product that I found out at UNPLGGD.com is twittering home energy use, very smart and very useful.
Hurry up and open a twitter account so that your plant can tweet you that it’s thirsty. Here
