PanoMan enables users to generate 360° panoramas with a mobile phone. The software includes a browser which lets you browse and zoom your åivtures, and seems to be worth the price, close to $6.
Microformats.org is a dedicated site for information about microformats:
”Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).”
Human Body Communication or BAN(Body Area Network) handles communication between devices using the human body as a medium.
L. A. Times has announced some changes to their Editorial Page. This part sounds interesting:”Watch next week for the introduction of “wikitorials” — an online feature that will empower you to rewrite Los Angeles Times editorials.
Update 20.06.05:
Doesn´t seem like it worked out well: ”Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material.”
Jeff Jarvis gives some advice on how to do this right.
“This year, the first mobile phones will come to shops which allow you to record VHS quality video. This will happen in Asia. The strongest multimedia drive at the moment is in Japan and Korea,” said Eero Kaikkonen, Hantro’s chief executive, referring to analog VHS video quality. “Next year it will be VGA quality,” he added, referring to the Video Graphic Array standard, with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels per individual picture.
