MetaFilter posts tagged with tracking

Big boys don't cry

klangklangston — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:03:15 -0800

10cc's I'm Not In Love and the story behind it.

Hacking the Sky

Upton O'Good — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:46:44 -0800

Hacking the Sky: Robert Simpson writes astronomy tools for use with Google Earth, Google Sky, and Twitter.

Twones is a multi-service music tracker.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:19:21 -0800

Twones is a music tracker that monitors Last.FM, YouTube, MySpace, iTunes, Muxtape, and a few other services. It's officially in private beta, but limited signups seem to have opened today (no guarantees as to how long that link will continue to work). It currently only works in Firefox 2.0 and up, as an add-on.

Make your own attack ad

CunningLinguist — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:46:38 -0800

Make your own attack ad. The Democratic party is uploading all its "tracker" videos of the top Republican candidates out on the campaign trail, for use by anyone for anything. "The party hopes that thousands of eyes might find something the mainstream media has missed, or that a new way of juxtaposing the video with something else will be revealing about the candidates," says the NYT. Gimmick or political sea change?

Trackulous - track anything

ikkyu2 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:54:17 -0800

Trackulous - Track Anything. There have to be ten dozen ways to track your weight online. MeFi users track thteir social athletic accomplishments at WeEndure and Runner+. But what if we wanted to track (and graph) Javelinas Sighted, Cookies Tossed, Fights with Boyfriend, or any other user-defined numerical quantity over time? And what if we wanted to share our statistics with our friends? For that, Trackulous - a simple, elegant, mobile-friendly web tool.

All browsers spy on Rome

Gyan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:22:19 -0800

Wiki City Rome - "anyone with an Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the real-time position of city buses and trains."

Space objects

Burhanistan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:26:57 -0800

Real time satellite tracking - another interesting use of Google Maps, Ajax, and orbital telemetry.

The Long Take.

Armitage Shanks — Wed, 09 May 2007 06:39:02 -0800

The Long Take aka "The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema".

Stay on top of the conversation

FlamingBore — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:53:36 -0800

Track your comments. Remember back before Matt gave up his day job? How we didn't have an easy way to keep up with conversations we participated in? Hate that you can't do that with other sites you frequent? Now you can.

I see you

caddis — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:29:14 -0800

Surreptitious cell phone ~~stalking~~ tracking. Stalkers are no longer limited to just your call history. For a small fee and with a few minutes access to her cell phone the author was able to track his girlfriend's cell phone location within a hundred yards or so and the cell phone provides no trace that it was happening. Traceamobile.com appears to be one site offering such a service. Mologogo was discussed here previously but does not appear to be surreptitious. (Appears to be limited to UK for right now.)

A cop in your trucnk: mandatory GPS tracking for your car.

orthogonality — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:04:38 -0800

Merry Christmas! Santa knows if you've been bad or good. The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to know where you're driving. Where you're driving, right this very minute, tracking you in real-time using GPS. If the GPS signal is obstructed, your car's engine will turn off, Citizen!

It's 11pm, do you know where your child is?

phrontist — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:15:11 -0800

Mologogo Track any Java/GPS enabled phone through a convienent Google Maps based interface with mologogo.

Watching Rita, some models

hank — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:15:41 -0800

Noted in the live stream from this TV station This is the "Local2 News" live tv stream (which has been pointed to in three previous MeFi threads about other news stories. Currently they've from time to time been showing storm track predictive models (which they say are their own development). I'd rather have pointers to more models than the TV station's occasional glimpses, but, this is the most varied set of storm track predictions I've seen. Anyone know where they're getting them?

Croc Rockin'

ewkpates — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:08:17 -0800

Sputnik rides again: Follow the amazing adventures of Sputnik the crocadilly. What was he up to August 7th? In metioning anything crocky, we should give a shout out to old Rol.

A New Approach

knave — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:06:00 -0800

Unexpected Features in Acrobat 7: A company called Remote Approach offers a feature to PDF authors to allow them to track the dissemination of their documents. Linux Weekly News reports, "After doing a little research, we found that Adobe's Reader was connecting to http://www.remoteapproach.com/remoteapproach/logging.asp each time we opened the document."

Beaterator

addyct — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:02:01 -0800

Beaterator - From the folks at Rockstar Games comes an easy to use flash implementation of MOD Tracking. You can upload sound files to add your own samples, and save your songs (after registering). See also the Rhymerator.

RFID to track students in Spring, Texas...

Irontom — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:44:47 -0800

RFID to track students in Spring, Texas... the information is fed automatically by wireless phone to the police and school administrators. That's right: constant and continual monitoring of all the schoolkids in the district by the local police department.

Just Keeping Track

DrDoberman — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:45:56 -0800

The Army are tagging honey bees to find UXBs. Now technology lets you silently locate mobile phones in the UK. Now you don't need to be 007 or Austin Powers to track someone. Is tagging offenders the soft option? How could someone already be watching you?

Yo, Victor

crunchburger — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:12:38 -0800

(linked page needs Java, sorry) Victor Wooten's Bass and Nature Camp sounds interesting. Bass guitar and music master class in the woods, with animal tracking, meditation, health, and basic wilderness survival lessons.

Tracking the Threat

hama7 — Wed, 26 May 2004 16:51:31 -0800

Tracking the Threat.

The world's biggest art gallery

ssmith — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:39:29 -0800

GPS Drawing. The world is your canvas.
Spirograph. Cat. The Magic Roundabout. Airplane ride.

Oh, the humanity!

konolia — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:07:13 -0800

Asteroid orbits Enter the designation or name of any asteroid or comet, and a 3D orbit visualization tool will appear for that object. If Chicken Little had this link he might have calmed down a little. Or not...Find out if your favorite asteroid is about to rock your world.

Where do I lick the barcode?

Irontom — Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:17:32 -0800

Postal ID Plan A government report urges the U.S. Postal Service to create "smart stamps" to track the identity of people who send mail. [more inside]

I don't hear any TYPING!

Irontom — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 07:51:16 -0800

Riddle me this: why are so many people in such a hurry to monitor, record and analyze every aspect of modern life? A UCLA professor wants to outfit an entire first grade classroom with minuscule sensors. The National Science Foundation awarded $1.8 million to fund the study, which will see students wearing special caps tracking their location and what they're looking at while cameras and microphones will record their activities. All the data gathered will be processed by a data-mining software package. [more inside]

Universal Surveillance, Inc.

Irontom — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:35:39 -0800

RFID tagging and tracking plans (mirror 1, mirror 2) With the tag line "Identify Any Object Anywhere Automatically", this group (the MIT Auto-ID Center) is leading the way into our bold new future of total tracking. {Originally uncovered by CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)}