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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
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12:32a - sunset + lightning + fireworks
This was the Vancouver sky tonight: a purple/orange sky with heavy lightning and a fireworks show.
I know of 2 other Vancouver people who saw it (from their Facebook statuses), but Googling for pictures hasn't been successful... Is it too early?
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This morning, Google returned something. But nothing compared to being there.
UPDATE: Twitter search is effective. See 1 2 3 4 5
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5:08p - Nathan Eagle videos
At the SFI Summer School, Nathan Eagle gave two awesome lectures on "reality mining" ("ubiquitous sensing"), namely about tracking people's location through GPS on the cell phones. His datasets include the majority of the population of whole countries.
The implications are huge, and possible applications include: tracking economic activity, social activity, tracing the source of epidemics, crime.
I caught parts of them on video.
On the second video, 11:25, he also mentions the IMMI Media Monitoring System, which turns on the microphone on phones (which people explicitly signed up for), to track media consumption.
Video 1
Video 2
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