links for 2007-05-31

• Flickr Geocodr - finding places from peoples photos
  (tags: maps location social semantic)
• Technology Review: Better Face Recognition Software
  the match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995
  (tags: semantic context_awareness surveillance)
• NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test 2006
  The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 was the latest in a series of large scale independent evaluations for face recognition systems.
  (tags: context_awareness semantic surveillance)
• Dash: The only internet connected automotive GPS device
  (tags: community gps internet lbs location mapping maps mobile automotive)
• "In class, I have to power down."
  Guardian article describing the digital divide between kids' in and out of school experoences.
  (tags: school digital-divide digital natives youth media)
• Of sex, mobiles and videotapes-India-The Times of India
  (tags: nindia social)
• TagMaps
  (tags: folksonomy maps visualization technology flickr social_software urban)
• flickrvision (beta)
  (tags: urban globalization social media)
• twittervision
  (tags: social_software mobile blogging web2.0)
• ShapeWiki
  Open library of geographic objects
  (tags: mapping social_software commons geoweb)
• Carbon labels to help shoppers save planet | Climate change | Guardian Unlimited Environment
  The UK government proposed a new system whereby packaged goods "will display labels showing the greenhouse gas emissions created by their production, transport and eventual disposal, similar to the calorie or salt content figures on food packaging."
  (tags: environment climate_change UK marketing)