Sep 17, 2009
Serving Other Deck: finding information in the landscape
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One of the things I’ve been thinking about lately is locational information foraging. Whether it’s a Burlington augmented reality art project or localized SEO or playing with Twitter hashtags or any other location-contextual topic/service/whathaveyou.
Today I was using Foursquare to find a place to eat in Tribeca, I’m in NYC doing some on-site work for a client. I looked at the nearby tips and found one that mentioned the 388 Greenwich building. I’ve never been in 388 but it’s close enough that I could throw rocks at it if I felt like it. The Foursquare tip mentioned a website, Serving Other Deck, which gives the complete breakdown on how a double-decker elevator system operates and how to game it both in raw gaming terms and also in terms of gaming it so you don’t damage social relations with the passengers (who you will likely be inconveniencing if you game the elevator).
It’s a fascinating read for anyone who likes systems and how systems interact with human behavior.
