As an “indepepedent” IT executive a much higher awareness of the cost of business becomes part of your life, a point well made by Mike Barrett in his new blog. So today I’m at the Stoneleigh conference centre, south of Coventry in the UK – and the cost of the centres wifi network is enough …
This week I am giving the keynote presentation at World of Geomatics, for many years the main trade show for the surveying industry in the UK. Although small compared to something like interGEO or GITA, the show is successful and is supported a loyal audience. It is also fully supported by the professional bodies of …
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Great news announced at the Google Maps api blog today, that GeoRSS is now fully supported in Google Maps. It is now possible just to pass the location of a GeoRSS feed as a parameter to the google maps url to see the feed rendered as an overlay. So http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://edparsons.floo-net.com/?feed=rss2 produces a map of this …
This week the guardian “free our data” campaign recaps on a years activities and what progress has been made, not a great deal I’m afraid, awareness may have been increased, but this is still not an issue on the political radar screen because as Charles and Michael point out, there really is nobody in government …
My local station has got some new ticket machines which allow you to purchase tickets using credit cards – wow !!! When they work that is, and now we know why they often don’t. Surely a job for embedded Linux ? Written and submitted from the BA lounge, Heathrow, using the BT Openzone 802.11 network.
The Geoware conference I presented to in Denmark is featured in a Special Episode of the Very Spatial podcast this week. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Well somebody gets it !! Sometimes just surfing for some unrelated information brings up a really interesting nugget of information like this. Clearly the guys in MV get it.. it’s all about context !! Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
As many of you know Chris Lightfoot, a prolific developer and “mash-up” artist behind some of the most exciting citizen focused website died last month. This mornings Times has his Obituary and I can’t think of a better tribute to Chris. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
A very good article by Jo Best at silicon.com, on how the balance of power is shifting between network operators and mobile phone manufactures following the announcement of the iPhone. A small shift perhaps and we could be replacing one walled garden with another ? I amongst others are hopeful that we seen some momentum …
Do you bank with first direct online? First Direct one of the first phone and online banks in the UK, last week upgraded the security on their internet banking site – and made a complete mess of the job. So currently I and many others are locked out of our accounts, and even worse.. my …
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