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In October in Amsterdam, debailiemedia hosted a conference on Social RFID and Mapping Future Histories of RFID, where debates on RFID connectivity. I’m interested in th idea that RFID could be integrated with ideas of web 2.0 social networks and and exploration of the social web.

One of the key workshops was with Richard Rogers, Director of govcom.org which has designed issuecrawler software which has pulled some very interesting issue network maps. They have also designed a number of interesting applications like viagratool for assessing information politics on the web. Anne Helmond has been doing research with the Digital Methods Initiative on visualizing whether RFID imagery is “wet” or “dry”. Wet are images have something to do with people, animals and other living things. Dry means basically the technical things- interesting way to catagorize a google images search.

Last week, the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress met in Barcelona with more than 55,000 visitors- amazing numbers! Interesting to note that GPS phones linked to cameras by Sony Ericsson and Nokia. Nokia’s N96 will geotag your photos automatically. I’m wondering if this might be useful for my project. The Wired correspondent Charlie Sorrel, notes that GPS is still too much of a battery drain and suggests faux-GPS using WiFi triangulation. He also writes about all the latest phones including the Android Googlephone.