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Repudo

Digital Objects on the street! Pick Up & Drop them.With Repudo you can drop all kinds of multimedia like a text, a photo, a video or an audio message at any location you like. Repudo is the world’s first platform to handle digital objects in the real world!

For example: Someone can drop a Repudo which contains an image or text for you at the central station. You have to go there in person to pick it up and get the message. Once the Repudo is picked up it is gone from the map. It is now on your phone and only you can decide what to do with it. You can’t copy it.

Keep it or drop it for someone special on a special place. Imagine all the amazing new possibilities!

Repudo brings perception of physical interaction with digital objects in the real world.

Get started and enjoy!

I can see a lot of potential for this service/app for teaching as well as commerce. After looking at the app, it’s obvious that they mean it to eventually be a location-aware ad service. They are trying to build a user-base through a kind of geocaching-lite activity.

For teachers, especially university teachers who don’t have to worry as much about sending students off into the city or large campus, this could be a lot of fun and very useful. The accuracy (or lack thereof) of the GPS means that you have to be working in a rather large area.

I envision a semester-long activity that mixes Repudo, SMS/Twitter, and/or QR codes stuck around the area. These can be used to assign tasks and guide students to the location/content of the next task. Most importantly, these are context-embedded tasks that take advantage of the area in which they are placed. In an EFL context, that doesn’t mean that you can go into a store and order in English; however, it does mean that you can have students look for/record things like English errors on signs or even shirts in the area, Do translation of something in the area, do interviews with someone in the area, and so forth.

I think that your imagination (and the extent that your students will be willing to do this) is your only limitation.

Rules Suppressing Mobile Payment, Games to Be Rewritten

Slipping Into Smartphone-Driven World

Rules Suppressing Mobile Payment, Games to Be Rewritten

By Kim Tong-hyung
Staff Reporter

Smartphones are intelligent, and South Korean government officials are finally accepting that they shouldn’t be made retarded by the country’s aging Internet regime.

I really hate the first sentence here. What was this writer thinking? It sounds like a 3rd grader introducing the topic, specifically his use of “retarded”.

However, with that said, this is a pretty good article. I think some points are a little off (real name requirements are older than a year), but it’s a nice overview on what’s being done.

Naver (NHN) Concerned about Fair Competition in Mobile

NHN concerned about fair competition in mobile search market

By Lee Youkyung
SEOUL, March 15 (Yonhap) — The head of NHN Corp., operator of South Korea’s most-visited search engine, expressed on Monday concerns about fair competition, arguing that users should be given a choice for a variety of search engines in smartphones, an increasingly popular gateway to the Web.

Normally, I’d heckle the poor Naver exec crying about fairness in the marketplace, but I won’t this time….other than laughing at the hypocrisy LOLOLOLOLOL!!! (ok, got that out of the way)

He’s got a great point here. There’s not even a way to change default search to Naver (or Daum or other Korean site) on iPhone (as far as I know) and I doubt there is on just about any other non-Korean phone (and probably not on Korean smartphones either). Microsoft is just implementing forced choice on its OS in Europe for a similar problem, is it too far afield to say that dominant mobile OS’s are guilty of the same? I’d say he has a case and, given the fact that he’s likely got some “friends” in the government, he’s likely going to pursue that case successfully. I’ll be interested to see what happens.

Wireless Data Usage Surges over 100-fold After iPhone’s Launch – not surprising. tethering might factor into this.

Wireless Data Usage Surges over 100-fold After iPhone’s Launch

Submitted by TKorea on 2010/03/08 – 9:43 pm

Monthly usage of wireless data among smartphone users in South Korea surged over 100-fold during the first two months following the iPhone’s launch here, a report from KT showed Monday.

Certainly not a surprise, but KT had to have been taken aback. Nobody predicted the sales of iPhone that has been seen here in Korea. This corresponded to increased data plans for iPhones as well as other smartphones.

I hope that they are able to alter their business model from features to data to a certain extent. It think that this will benefit users, though not the telecoms.

What iPhone apps do you use? (Korea) – I’d love to know what others are using. I’ll provide a list of ones that I use (not just download)

What apps do you use?
March 02, 2010

In just three months after the Apple iPhone went on sale here in December, some 300,000 units have been sold. Part and parcel with the device’s dominance in hardware is its strength in mobile applications, reflected in the iPhone App Store.

Since knowing users’ app preferences makes the difference between a major hit and just another junk download, Digieco, a management research institute affiliated with KT, the Korean mobile carrier that supports the iPhone here, recently looked into which ones users download most. They found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that apps for public transit routes and maps were very popular, along with social networking and scheduling software.

The average Korean iPhone user has 86 apps on his or her handset and spends 5,800 won ($5) on apps purchases every month, according to Digieco.

I’m interested to see what other people are using in the way of iPhone apps. Here are some that I actively use (at least once a week).

1. Google Apps

2. TweetDeck

3. Facebook

4. Foursquare

5. Daum maps

6. Jihachul

7. Lingopal (Korean phrases)

8. SugarSync

9. Diigo

10. Ustream (broadcaster/viewer)

11. Kindle

12. Asphalt 5 (free) – driving game (3 yr-old son loves it and so do I)

13. Shrek Kart (free) – driving game (3 yr-old son loves it)

14. Jungle Crash

15. Waterslide

16. Pandemica (not great, but cool idea)

17. Feed Me! (game for pre-schoolers)

18. Skype (almost forgot that)

Of course, this doesn’t count all the apps that came pre-installed, which I use every day, including: iPod, Safari, Contacts, Calendar (Google sync), Camera, Mail (Gmail), Clock (as alarm).

What about you? Anything you’d recommend?

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