So initially the moral of this story seems to be, if you are launching a Government website across the mass media, make sure you do the load testing with 100x what you expect. The real issue is that despite having best intentions and a commitment to transparency, it’s very easy to confuse, mislead and lose credibility with …
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You have to appreciate the minimalist design aesthetic of this phone from Amsterdam based designer John Doe, but I’m not sure I could really love a phone that only made and received calls, no SMS, email, camera or heaven forbid Location Based Services !! I tried to use an old Ericsson T28 as my “home” mobile for a while, because I thought it …
We all know maps can be made to lie, but this is ridiculous !! Seems the influence of Iran on the Middle East is greater than we first thought… Written and submitted from home (51.425N, 0.331W)
I have not attended the GeoWeb Conference for the past few years, but the annual international conference in Vancouver has been a highlight event in the years I was able make it. The conference represents an interesting middle ground between the very much industry dominated conference of Where 2.0 and Location Business Summit and academic conferences where the focus is …
Every year Google accepts research proposals for small grants awarded to researchers at academic institutions working on projects which in general terms improve access to information. Google funds Research Awards with very few restrictions and retains no intellectual property from the research itself, indeed there is an expectation that results from the research are open sourced and widely published. Geospatial …
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A rather geeky first post for the New Year, but that’s no bad thing. So the launch of an interesting if niche extension to the Google Maps javascript api, you can read Thor’s blog post here, but as of today you can now use a new library of functions as an addition to the javascript api to carry …
Remember just over a year ago, when it was announced that much of the UK’s geographic information was to be made available free at the point of use, seems a long time ago does it not ? but a year on it’s hard to judge the real impact. Clearly this was the right thing to …
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I had not picked up on this video from the recent London O’Reilly Ignite talks before, but it captures the zeitgeist of the web brilliantly. Tom Scott perfectly demonstrates why social networks are both exciting and scary at the same time, and once again proves the value of a strong narrative in making your point. …
Hopefully the first Google annual event in Amsterdam, my topic was the trend towards egocentric maps and LBS apps. Written and submitted from the BA Lounge, Schiphol (52.309N, 4.775E)
This one very rare tweet from Andy Rubin, lead on the Android Programme at Google in 140 characters perfectly embodies the open and geeky culture at Google. This is of course not always initially a great advantage when building consumer facing products, for my non geeks readers “mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git …
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