Spilling the Beans
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
One more developer story from ccdc, from the Seeds team.
At ccdc all the applications had to be connected to green technology or the upcoming climate conference in some way.
After deciding to promote public transportation the team realized that the worst part of commuting was the implicit boredom. The first idea was to encourage for some kind of interaction between passengers, but since the Danish mentality does not encourage strangers to start talking to other passengers in the bus, they decided to go with some sort of indirect interaction.
They found that it would be interesting to let people “plant seeds” in the urban landscape.
Seeds are like graffiti, anyone can write anything they want eg. tags, stories, comments, poems etc.
Seeds can also represent other media such as pictures and videos. The seeds can be rated by other users, thereby increasing their life-span.
The Seeds app is much like Twitter, though its focus is geo-tagged media.
All Seeds are public, therefor you do not need a long friends-list to get started.
Seeds is communication in a new dimension encouraging indirect interaction.
A video of the Application in action can be found here
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