Instantiations of UbiComp Bricks

I have been playing around a couple of mobile software instantiating ubicomp brick enabling information ubiquity. The concepts they carry are of interest for the second experiment I am planning.

The Nokia Mobile Web Server is truly groundbreaking. Putting Internet accessible servers (web or others) on mobile devices changes the mobile information flow and is a clear step forward an Internet of things. Contextual data can be both pushed and pulled. [my previous post on this]. Source code is available on sourceforge.

A mobile web site, Netscape Gold era style (right). Mobile Apache Server administration and logs
Jaiku is a real-time “rich presence” mobile phone (S60) applications. The authors mention “Rich presence” as the description of the many relevant things a phone knows about a users. Rich presence on Jaiku includes an IM-style away line, your phone profile (ring volume, vibrate), location (country, city/region, neigborhood), Bluetooth devices around, upcoming calendar events, and the duration how long your phone has been idle. Jaiku integrates “all in one” a couple of location technologies (GPS, GSM, BT) and carries the senses of relative and absolute positioning for location awareness.

A rather poor “reach presence”.

The Kaywa reader reads QR codes and as well as datamatrix. The Kaywa QR code generator allows to create a QR code linked to different content (url, sms, text, phone number). Semacodes and such are leaving the reasearch labs and entering the mobile industry’s near-field communication concepts.