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 …
Once upon a time I was a young teaching assistant teaching Aerial Photography Interpretation, and one of the aspects that I found difficult to demonstrate was Parallax, the displacement of high features such as towers in photographs. You will see this today when looking at some of the images in Google Earth which have not been corrected to remove the …
Today National Rail Enquires have released a free iPhone app for real time train information. Hang-on you may say, I though that app already existed.. well it does ! For the last few years National Rail Enquires (NRE) have been licensing at some considerable cost it’s information to independent software developers for them to develop their own …
After successful events in the US two Google Geo Teachers Institutes are to be held on June 13 and 14 in Dublin, and June 20 and 21, 2012 in London. Both events will be held at the local Google office. The two-day events are free and designed to help teachers get the most from Google’s geography-related products and …
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The deadline for our next round of Google Research Awards is 11:59pm PDT on April 15, 2012. The Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time staff members at top universities around the world. Member of academic staff can apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal …
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The retro computing meme continues to gain momentum, just because you are restricted to 8bit computing, there is no reason you should miss out on using Google Maps, so today a new tile set designed for use by the Nintendo Entertainment System has been released. Happy Memories ? I was more of a Sinclair Spectrum man …
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