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mates is a location-based social networking system in the form of a robust web service, or Relationship Engine , and an optional rich media client application, or Relationship Space Navigator . from the project's website :  Our objective in creating mates has been to build an open infrastructure to introduce and connect individuals based on the intersection of physical location and other properties they might have in common. mates is different than the wide range of existing social networking and instant messaging applications. We strive to create an open...

  Re-blogged from InfoAesthetics a web-based application prototype that allows participants to provide direct responses to current issues facing their governments on a selection of social scales (e.g. housing, health, immigration, social rights). the "Waterfall" interfaces visualizes the issues, votes & opinions of participants, with size depending on importance. "Where...

  From Networked Performance   I4: Interactivity / Information / Interfaces / Immersion: International Research Conference, J W Goethe University, Institute of Cultural...

  From MIT's Technology Review :   The emergence of the Internet as a social environment led us to come up with a service where people could first report the scope of a...

Via Prototype: Interaction Design Cluster   FlickrFling is an open source project for people who wish to explore in an innovative and rather surprising way the different data feeds that...