#project #newyork #idea #project Our goal in 2005 was to connect objects and locations in the physical world to their respective entries in wikipedia using a crowd sourced QR code sticker model. More than 60,000 semapedia tags were generated all over the world. The project was featured in Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Der Spiegel. Spiegel 2006: https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45977876.html ## NFC Tags in NYC in 2006 - Inspired by [[Timo Arnall]]'s *original* blog post[^1] where he showed a 'smart desk' (I think) using that weird green/blue NFC-enabled Nokia and NFC tags hidden underneath ![[07452F25-2612-4BFB-B55B-D88CE3737331_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[250778DE-BD47-4113-A3E0-A3404D6D98DD_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[034441FA-FAB2-4B1A-AA14-A32E1789ADB7_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[9D420A22-52ED-4D9B-9D7A-E18384615E50_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[9DF225AC-3B85-4B89-ABAB-381998D5E9A7_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[87D0D588-0D80-47E3-A418-478F757AE106_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[02C9C73B-79AE-4828-A70F-205735381096_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[86F0B46E-2C4A-41A5-BC9B-822B943EFF58_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[A7DEF9B7-51F1-452A-B0EF-CA84BE3043CA_1_105_c.jpeg]] ![[9DDE5C5B-15E1-4091-80C3-DEFAA5DCA889_1_105_c.jpeg]] Part of my [[Past Projects 1997 to 2020]] [^1]: https://www.elasticspace.com/2005/12/nokia-3220-nfc