Cool Hunting
It's thesis week over at ITP and the second year students are propping their all-nighter-red-eyes open to present the culmination of their graduate adventures in interactive technology. Following last year's well publicized mobile social software thesis, Dodgeball, there are several new explorations of how the mobile phone can facilitate communication in unconventional ways.
Limor Garcia's Cellphedia takes an sensible angle by limiting communication to simple questions and answers. Her application is basically a mobile interpretation of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In Cellphedia, however, you send your questions via text message to a topic specific group of users and anyone who knows the answer can simply reply to you. Handy.
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