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David Orban is the cofounder (together with Leandro Agro’ and Roberto Ostinelli) and chief evangelist of OpenSpime, a new technology startup that was born to accept the challenge proposed by Bruce Sterling of creating spimes, a new class of sensors that project in space and time (thus spimes) and enable individuals as well as businesses and institutions to sense, track, and understand the environment around us. OpenSpimes are GPS-enabled sensors that are aware of their environment and that allow to collect ambient data thourgh the use of open APIs and protocols.

I had the pleasure to meet David two weeks ago in San Diego, during the ETech 2008 (see my previous post). In that occasion, he briefly interviewed me about the New York Talk Exchange project that I presented at ETech on behalf of the Senseable City Lab, and he then published the video on YouTube. So here it is:

The New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world. If you want to know more about it, you can visit the Senseable City Lab homepage and the New York Talk Exchange homepage. Below, you can also view two videos of the visualizations that we created to describe such a wonderful dataset.