Follow our DrinkLink in live streaming

If you cannot make it this evening (on CET… it will be in the morning of today on PST), then you can follow us streaming live on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus. Right now we are transmitting a compilation of a series of OpenSpime videos, and live transmissions will start at 8PM CET (11AM PST). [...]

OpenSpime Drink-Link: come and play @Bastard.it!

Do you want to experiment with spimes, have a first look at the preliminary OpenSpime architecture? Are you a hardware hacker, a maker, a mashup-wizard? Want to play with spimified Arduinos, SunSpots, iPhones, and more?
Than come to Bastard.it for the OpenSpime Drink-Link!
When: Wednesday, April 9, starting at 6.30 PM.
Where: Via Slapater 19, Milan, Italy
In a [...]

Transcript of our Technometria interview

On Technometria from IT Conversations, Phil Windley along with Scott Lemon talked with David Orban and Roberto Ostinelli about OpenSpime, an open source project for supporting spime technology. This is the transcript of a Technometria podcast episode, of March 18, 2008

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Coverage in daily newspaper

Italy’s largest circulation financial daily, Il Sole 24 Ore (the local equivalent of the Financial Times), published an article by Emil Abirascid about WideTag, Inc., our company behind the OpenSpime technology.

Conversation with Vernor Vinge on spimes

Vernor Vinge is an award winning author, whose latest book Rainbows End is full of what we now call spimes: smart networked sensors, that fill the world with intelligent chatter that the protagonists of the book constantly rely on. (You can also download a full, free electronic version of the book.)
We had the pleasure of [...]

Prime time television coverage on SkyTG24

This past Saturday there has been a nice surprise as OpenSpime has received coverage from a leading satellite channel. During the half-hour show called ‘Reporter Diffuso‘ host Marco Montemagno asked Marco Zamperini what were the technologies that he kept his eyes on, while already having our demo video ready to be aired. He didn’t know [...]

‘Birds Of A Feather’ session at ETech

We organized a ‘Birds Of a Feather’ session at ETech yesterday, which enables the quick grouping of people with similar interests to share ideas and discuss issues concerning a given topic. We called the session “Earth Monitoring - When Spimes Rule The Planet”, and had a great attendance with people from SAP Labs, TreeHugger, and [...]

ETech presentation

Here is the presentation we gave yesterday at ETech in the plenary session right after Tim O’Reilly’s keynote speech:

“The World Of OpenSpime”
and these are the slides:

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Talking at Ignite

Just got off the phone with Brady, who is the chair of ETech. We agreed that we’ll be talking at ETech Ignite… which is fully booked. So we will be ready to take the stage if one of the scheduled speakers doesn’t show up. I told Brady that we’ll wait 30 seconds and after that [...]

What is a spime?

The word spime has been coined by Bruce Sterling from the contraction of the two terms space and time to express the nature of a new class of objects, which are aware of where they are, and when they are on the planet. This awareness is achieved through the universal inclusion of global positioning functionality, [...]