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PlaceMatters Blog Roundup: October 12, 2011

Digital Urban posted a video snippet from last month’s Intel Developer Forum featuring Intel CEO Paul Otellini on an idea that is pretty simple even if the technology and processing chops aren’t: create rich 3D models based on millions of user-generated images. This is basically crowd-sourced 3D modeling and it’s very cool. Digital Urban also [...]

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Can Games Save the World?

  Jacob interviewed me earlier in the year about what I’m excited about this year and my basic answer centered around Place-Based Games.  The emergence of social media mashed up with location aware smart phones is enabling new ways to engage citizens in planning and decision making.  Clive Thompson writes in March’s issue of Wired [...]

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Just for fun: City Story

Just reposting something I saw over at Digital Urban. If you’re like me and miss the heyday of SimCity and urban games, here’s something to cheer you up. City Story is a game for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. And it’s free! Lacks the complexity of SimCity (and that may be okay), but probably [...]

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