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2010

last.fm for television. Dale Lane’s neat hack to visualise his television watching habits. An Ubuntu / vdx home theatre stores TV events in SQLite, and graphs are generated using Python and Open Flash Chart 2. The really clever bit: the back-end captures nearby bluetooth IDs’ allowing events to be filtered by the people watching based on the presence of their mobile phones.

# 7th January 2010, 7:28 pm / dalelane, tv, ubuntu, vdx, sqlite, python, graphs, visualisation, lifetracking