lunching ijusthadabeer.com
19. Juli 2010
what, why and how for the lunch of the crowd-sourcing website ijusthadabeer.com
What
This is a crowdsourcing game, to determine the local current local consumption of beer. It should be fun, but also provide the idea of sensing an complicated and interessting fact based on a relative simple sensing algorithm. You as a participant is doing nothing special than telling the world that you had a beer, this is then available on this map, showing the big picture of overall thirst.
The interpretation is yours, wheather a place is more populare to get a beer or if an area is more despaired for alohol.
Why
I’m intressted in harvesing little umimportant not-personalized facts to build big pictures, available to everyone, for more of an\ scietific intressted than comercial use. So lay back and have fun watching how people get involved.
How
This experiment works by allowing the browser to share your location, this might be a problem to some of you, so just disallow and look at the map in read-only mode. By pressing the “I just had a beer” - button you are allowed to tell the world about you current consume, or if you sensed someones else consue close to you. Choosing your place is conveniet to map the sensed information with a current location. And to make clear where what happend.
Cheeres and enjoy!