Some Web technologies...

Yahoo Pipes

Google Web Toolkit - compile Java applications into JavaScript
(Google Web Applications, By Ryan Dewsbury, in Borders)

iPhone and iPod Touch Programming - AJAX, CSS, etc for Mobile Safari browser
(Wrox, in Borders)

Android Toolkit - books released in Sept 29 by Wrox Press

OpenSocial Alliance

Smart Cities Projects

New Songdo in Korea
http://www.songdo.com/default.aspx

Tokyo Ubiquitous Computing Project
http://www.tokyo-ubinavi.jp/en/ginza.html

Smart Cities
http://cities.media.mit.edu/
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1848

Smart Cities in Europe
http://www.smart-cities.eu/why-smart-cities.html

Urban Sensing
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ParticipatoryUrbanism/index.html

Cityware
http://www.cityware.org.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_social_network

more to come...

CAPC2008 - workshop at Pervasive 2008 coming up!!!

Context-aware Communities: Infrastructure, Services, and Applications (CAPC2008)  


Be it urban computing or smarter more-aware communities and individuals - papers welcome!

Upcoming exciting conferences!

Pervasive 2008 in Sydney!
http://www.pervasive2008.org/

Percom 2008 in Hong Kong!
http://www.percom.org/

Pervasive Health 2008 in Finland!
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

Mobile & Physical Search

Google
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3498296

Yahoo
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13074/53/

Nokia
http://mobilesearch.nokia.com/index.html
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/nors/index.html

Motorola & Google
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4586940.stm
http://telephonyonline.com/wireless/marketing/motorola_google_mobile_010606/

Physical Search
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=MAX%3A+Human-Centric+Search+of+the+Physical+World&btnG=Search

NICTA talks

Future Directions for Tomorrow’s Interactions http://nicta.com.au/nicta_events/events/event_repository/shor_tcourses/future_directions_for_tomorrow146s_interactions

Compressed Sensing: the next "Big Idea" in Signal Processing
http://nicta.com.au/nicta_events/events/event_repository/shor_tcourses/compressed_sensing_the_next_big_idea_in_signal_processing

Getting Sensor Information from the Environment to Mobile Devices/Smart Phones

(Nokia Remote Sensing)
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/nors/index.html

Contory
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/riva/publications/riva_siumi06_paper.pdf

(Microsoft's Sensor Maps)
http://atom.research.microsoft.com/sensormap/

And a list of sensorweb projects:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=sensorweb&meta=