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Maintenance on touchatag service - this... on 01 Apr '10
Dear all, this Friday, 10-11 AM CET, the touchatag service will be upgraded and therefore you might...
Maintenance on touchatag service - this Friday April 3th, 10-11 AM CET
Dear all, this Friday, 10-11 AM CET, the touchatag service will be upgraded and therefore you might experience unavailability of the touchatag website during this time period.
touchatag at LICT Future Internet Workshop FEB 26 2010
Hans De Mondt will be presenting touchatag's vision on the Future of the Internet at the LICT Future Internet Workshop.
LICT workshop on Future Internet
26.02.2010 13.00 h - 19.00 h
ESAT - Aud A - Heverlee (BELGIUM)More info: http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/LICT/index.php?view=details&id=9:LICT-worksh...
Maintenance - downtime of touchatag service - Friday 27 November - 10 AM - 1 PM CET
Due to maintenance on the touchatag service and http://www.touchatag.com website, we foresee a downtime this Thursday 26 November 2009 between 10 AM and 1 PM CET.
The touchatag team
Maintenance - downtime of dashboard and registration - Monday 09 November 2009 - 10AM - 1PM CET
Due to maintenance on the http://www.touchatag.com website, we foresee a downtime this Monday 09 November 2009 between 10 AM and 1PM CET.
Note that our service of configured tags will keep running, but that you won't be able to access the dashboard or register as new user.
The touchatag team.
Inspiration for the touchatag community (part 2)
Here is an idea we had not thought off ourselves and we required the assistance of Wikipedia to understand the full context. We would like to present John M Knight and his “electromagnetic geospatial steampunk globe, using touchatag”. Mr Knight has incorporated touchatag with his steampunk globe and computer to remote control Google earth. To see the globe in action check out the photos and video http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmknight/sets/72157622598555795/ Word of the day: steampunk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk. Who will surprise us next?
Inspiration for the touchatag community: DIY Souvenir Video Tagging
Thanks to Alison Lewis, the touchatag community gets another inspirational example enabled by the touchatag service.
As Allison explains on her http://www.iheartswitch.com/ website: "Surprise your guests by linking any object in your home to online videos! For example, in my home, if a guest picks up one of the pieces from my tea set and places it on an area of my coffee table, it plays a movie from my trip to South Korea on my LCD screen."
This tea set was featured as part of a New York Times article on her living room renovation
touchatag presence at Cartes, Digital Marketing First and Bell Labs Open Days
Come and meet someone from the touchatag team at following events:
1. Cartes 2009:
Presentation: Contactless meal vouchers for payment, advertising, loyalty: Accor Services case study by Toon Coppens, Marketing Director, Touchatag, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture, Belgium in the session C13 : NFC & CONTACTLESS; THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2009 - 9.30 am - 5.00 pm; Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, Halls 3 & 4.
http://www.cartes.com/ExposiumCms/do/exhibition/CARTES+ID+UK/Congress/Pr...
2. Bell Labs Open Days
touchatag mobile wallet 2.0 demonstrator. October 21 – Application enablement and business model innovation; ; Crowne Plaza Antwerp - Belgium.
http://www.bell-labs.be/en/workshop/
3. Digital Marketing First
Toon Coppens (Founder of Touchatag, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture ),speaks on When web meets world and mobile wallet 2.0; 22 October 2009, TOUR & TAXIS , Brussels
http://www.entreprendreondernemen.be/DMF09/fr/prog_conference.php#
Announcing the winners of the Vienna Jungle Scrum
We are happy to announce the winners of our urban game challenge: Vienna Jungle Scrum . Alcatel-Lucent Touchatag and A1 Mobilkom ran this contest together in the margin of A1's Innovation days.
We'd like to take a moment to thank all the participants. Overall we saw a great quality in game experience design. We were also happy to see that we not only received entries from Austria, but that games were submitted from all around the world.Stay tuned and keep your eyes open for TDN (Touchatag Developer Network) updates. In the weeks to come application developers will get new functionality, to build even more exciting apps with the touchatag service.
The winners
Category 1: Urban Game Challenge
Winner: 11:11 (Ted Teodosiev) , Varna, Bulgaria - http://www.viennajunglescrum.com
The jury praises the high quality of both the multimedia assets as well as the creation of the prototype using touchatag's service with both NFC and QR code tags.First runner up: Experience Touristiques (Fabien Ferdinandy, Véronique Seel & blandine giambiasi), La Rochelle, France - http://www.experiencestouristiques.fr/non-classe/en-finale-une-experienc...
Second runner up: Wicked Bros, Vienna, Austria - http://wicked-bros.at/games.html#nav_viennacitysafari
Category 2: Open category - best NFC application
Winner: Smart Stamp (Elliot Klein), New York, US - http://www.smartstamp.net/
Smart Stamp® adds a new kind of visual ID label onto the front surface of traditional postal mail to connect letters, postcards or packages with the Internet.Great job guys!
The touchatag team
1 year touchatag RFID-NFC service
Today touchatag celebrates its first anniversary. Thanks for using our service, posting ideas and interacting with the touchatag team!
In the past year we were able to extend our RFID-NFC-2D barcode service to enable the long tail of contactless applications. Businesses, application developers and DIY consumers are all using our touchatag service for very different reasons:
- For service providers and enterprises:
Contactless wallet 2.0 brings businesses one touch payment, loyalty, coupon services and interactive advertising. This has been implemented in pilots throughout the world and more are coming up: http://business.touchatag.com - For application and web developers:
Through our open API, touchatag strives to democratize the RFID market place and make RFID development easy, affordable and extendable. Several developers have already created time registration applications, rental service solutions, access systems for disabled people etc. http://www.touchatag.com/developer
Stay tuned for new application developer functionalities that we will be launching in the coming weeks.
We will shortly announce the winners of the touchatag Vienna Jungle Scrum. An application development contest endorsed by Mobilkom A1 to have the global community creating the best NFC city game. - For the DIY community
For consumers we bring the Internet of Things to life. They can link real world objects to the online world, using RFID, NFC and 2D barcode technology: http://www.touchatag.com
Checkout our new community website design
- For service providers and enterprises:
Inspiration for the NFC Urban Game contest: "capture the tag"
touchatag organizes in cooperation with Mobilkom A1 an NFC (Near Field Communication, an evolution of RFID integrated into mobile phones) based Urban Game challenge. As inspiration for this contest, touchatag created its own game and played this last week.
Check this out here: http://www.slideshare.net/touchatag/nfc-rfid-urban-game-using-the-toucha...
You can still join the developer contest till 09/09/2009 with your idea for an NFC based urban game. Participate at http://www.touchatag.com/a1contest
NFC city game contest in cooperation with Mobilkom A1
Today we are launching an NFC application development challenge in cooperation with Mobilkom A1. This is the leading Austrian telecom operator, and active in over 8 countries in Europe. Propose the best NFC based city game or compete in the open category to win 5000 Euro cash prizes. The winners are awarded at the mobile Barcamp organized end of September. Check this out at http://www.touchatag.com/A1contest
Firefox Plug-in Update
If you have recently updated to Mozilla Firefox 3.5, and found that there was no update for your touchatag plug-in, there is good news. The updated version has already been uploaded to addons.mozilla.org, and is awaiting approval. When that happens, the your previously-installed touchatag plug-in will update automatically.
Of course, you don't really have to wait. If you want it today, check the usual spot: touchatag.com/downloads
Andy Piper Overviews Touchatag
New to the touchatag community, Andy Piper has posted a short overview video of touchatag. We share it with you here.
If you have questions or comment for Andy, please post the video's page on YouTube.
Get Your Video Featured on www.touchatag.com
We love to feature the members of our community. If you have a made a video showing how you use touchatag, let us know. You can leave us a comment here, or email us (info@touchatag.com).
touchatag 500 tag package
In response to the many requests we received for selling large amounts of touchatag tags for time registration or collection management apps, we recently launched the 500 tag package. This is for sale via http://www.touchatag.com/e-store - worldwide, of course!
touchatag presentation and demo at Digital Downtown To Go - NYC - June 10-11
touchatag has a demo stand and presents at Digital Downtown to go, June 10-11 in New York City
touchatag's general manager Anthony Belpaire speaks in the session on New Media Meets New Interfaces, New Gadgets , and this at 9:45-10:30 am on June 11.
touchatag also shows various demonstrators of how touchatag is being used by consumers, application developers and businesses.
- B2C: automatic twitter updates, smart objects to control iTunes
- App dev: time registration, mobile workforce solutions, rental services...
- B2B: loyalty and interactive advertising services
touchatag demonstrates interactive advertising functionalities on IAB Europe Interact conference
Alcatel-Lucent is gold sponsor of the IAB Interact Congress, taking place on June 10-12, 2009, at the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels, Belgium.
Interact 2009 is known as the unique meeting place for decision-makers from the digital and interactive media industries including brands, media owners, publishers, technology providers, advertising agencies and their clients and market research agencies – in fact, the people who drive the European advertising industry.
Alcatel-Lucent’s touchatag venture, specialized in contactless RFID applications, will show several demonstrators related to interactive advertising, like interacting with a billboard via one touch and receiving information via SMS, e-mail or voice call.
Cercle Vermeil extends their ICT system for elderly with touchatag one touch access
Cercle Vermeil, a project of French IDUTAIP focuses to promote innovative ICT for ageing well and to make ICT for the elderly affordable in everydays' life. They develop open source applications, like the Eldy system, designed for the elderly and integrate them in an easy to use environment for disabled people residing in nursing homes or still living in their individual home. They also implement multimedia points in nursing homes. Cercle Vermeil website
On June 11, 2009, Cercle Vermeil will present the extension of their Eldy system with multi-user support, using touchatag’s service. The touchatag RFID tag helps to identify individual users. Via a simple touch with a touchatag RFID sticker, consumers can access their personal environment and forums without extended login procedures. They can also directly access menus and submenus and even send an e-mail via one touch.
With touchatag and Eldy, informatics never has been so easy to use. This new functionality will also allow putting Eldy in action at various public places like nursing homes.
New Blocks: June Update Delivers New Blocks for Touchatag Developers
Since the May 19 announcement of the new tools and APIs for developers, there have been some great requests for extensions to that functionality.
Through the ACS Block System, we delivered some of the requested functionality just this week. Now online are several new functional blocks that touchatag developers can immediately put to use.For example, the new Calculator block allows you to perform mathematical operations within a block workflow using standard operators (+, -, *, /, and so forth).
You will also find that several new data type converters provide further flexibility for your applications. For example, the TextToURI block now lets you to take a response from your external web applications (handled by the HTTPResponseProcess block) and use it as a URL that to send back to the end user's system (as a WebLink action).
Here is the complete list of new blocks:
- Calculator
- IntegerToText
- TextToInteger
- TextToURI
- URIToText
- TextListRegister
- TextListSource
- TextToOperator
Get Access to the Specification ToolThe easiest way to start using the Block System is with the Specification Tool, a special "developers-only" application that enables you to make custom touchatag applications by creating XML Specification documents.
Touchatag at JavaOne 2009
We are coming to JavaOne!
Having recently released our first set of developer tools and stable API, we will be in the Startup section of the JavaOne Pavilion (exhibition hall) talking to developers about joining Touchatag Developer Network and developing with our growing touchatag API.
How do you find us there? Look for the startup section of the Pavilion (or you can find our tiny spot on this huge map).
Most of the time, the booth will be staffed by me (Ted Haeger, manager of Touchatag Developer Network). I'll be showing some touchatag applications, discussing how to use our current API and where we're taking it next, and getting as much feedback as possible.
As previously announced in the developer forums, touchatag's lead architect Bert Van Vlerken is attending JavaOne next week. So, if you want to get really deep into the workings of touchatag, I can let you know when Bert will be at the booth (which typically means that I'm on a food break).
If you will be at JavaOne and you plan to swing by the booth, please leave a comment to let us know to expect you. (I may even have something waiting for you at the booth.)
--Ted
Touchatag Update: More Applications, Developer Tools and Interfaces
The first fruits of spring have arrived, and the touchatag team is unveiling several great new features for touchatag users and developers.
Those who have been asking for more advanced technical features from touchatag will be delighted with the new applications in this release. Both the new E-mail Application and Advanced HTTP Application provide you a way to dispatch actions directly from the touchatag Application Correlation Service (ACS) in our data centers. And, to help you manage your tags more easily, you will also find that a new tag view interface in the touchatag dashboard.
For developers, the new Advanced HTTP Application is just the beginning. Behind this new application is a powerful new tool in the ACS Block System, called the ACS HTTP Client Block. Using it, you can call external application services using standard HTTP methods, which opens a whole new horizon for touchatag applications. This is just one of several ways how we are opening the touchatag ACS for developer innovation.
Click here to get an overview of the new functionalities to create contactless applications
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