So now everyone knows making a map of our little planet to make available to users of mobile devices everywhere that is both accurate, up-to-date and detailed is hard. And with the benefit of hindsight and industry expertise we can smile knowledgeably at the mainstream tech press falling over themselves debating and theorising over Apple …
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a Keynote at the 4th Digital Earth Summit in Wellington, New Zealand. This was a wonderful experience in a number of ways, firstly Wellington really is the coolest little capital on the planet, secondly as always I meet a great bunch of people including some budding entrepreneurs …
My Wifeand Daughter rowing 80 miles for charity.. And next weekend you find me somewhere on the riverbank of the Thames between Oxford and Hampton Court! Flo and Lisa’s page Flo Blake Parsons is fundraising for KGS FOUNDATION This was posted on Google+…
So just how bad is NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.. I spent a few days last week in the US so I got the opportunity to actually experience it. Well compared to the BBC, it was never going to win any prizes, but actually is not so bad once you get over the bizarre time …
No one would have believed in the first years of the twenty first century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mans… H.G. Wells had it wrong, the invasion of Mars by robots from earth ! Good Luck NASA, JPL and Curiosity the most ambitious landing since Apollo 11, …
Last week, before the network “Omni-shambles” that seemed to impact almost everyone on O2 in the past few days, I moved some of my mobile accounts from O2 to geek poster boy network GiffGaff. When I say move of course I am well aware that GiffGaff is still actually O2, it’s an internal MVNO – Mobile Virtual …
Well that’s at least the way it’s gets reported… Last week I was invited to speak on visualisation and “Big Data” at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and was interviewed by the “tech tonic” team from Reuters TV on the current state of maps online. Here is the interview.. On the subject of visualisation, my main …
I can’t believe I had not come across this video before, from a 2007 Superbowl advert from Garmin, the Maposaurus ! Happy Friday everyone !! Written and submitted from the Google Offices, London (51.495N, 0.146W)
Yesterday I made a presentation at the 13th GSDI Conference in Quebec (thanks to Geoff for his commentary), it was only a flying visit but I left in a more positive frame of mind that I expected. The high level message of my presentation was, we need to think more about the I in SDI e.g. infrastructure, …
Is around 5 years ?? Well I would estimate that is the case from the imminent closure of Plazes, one of the earliest Location Sharing applications developed back in 2004. I used Plazes on and off for a few years starting on my first real smartphone the Nokia N95 and for a while it powered …
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