We need helping selling, Google GEO solutions to Enterprise customers in the UK, if your are interested and have the appropriate experience details are here, feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions. Written and submitted from the Google Offices, London (51.495N, 0.146W)
Spent an interesting day making by way down to Southampton to give a talk to some 3rd year Computer Scientists, strange to be back near by old employers, I did not drop in however.. The drive down the M3 was particularly spectacular clear blue skies and a snow covered countryside is the positive spin of a country whose infrastructure …
Every year I give myself a little project to do that has the twin aims of providing an alternative to watching TV and keeps my “hand-on” skills with technology current. In the past I have built linux servers from scratch, learnt Ruby of Rails (remember that !!) and of course uncessfully tried to build a cheap …
Yesterday marked the end of a era for many people interested in technology in the UK, as it was the last publication of the Guardian’s Thursday Technology supplement. For many years I used to buy the Newspaper on a Thursday just for the tech section and it’s news from the IT industry and it’s IT …
Final post on the subject, John Graham Cumming demonstrates in this YouTube video, what bedroom climate science looks like . Marvelous !! The source code of his perl program is here Written and submitted from the Google Offices, London (51.495N, 0.146W)
In his rather influential book on Google, Jeff Jarvis describes how successful companies on the web need to “bring their customers into their processes”, and by using open and transparent communications when things go wrong, companies will not only maintain but enhance their users trust. In a really inspiring series of posts to his blog, Martin Daly …
As the thinking world watches the activities in Copenhagen rather than the latest news of Tiger Woods, the value of making climate change data more accessible a point I made last week, is gaining some momentum. This week the UK’s Met Office released a subset of HadCRUT data-set, just about the most comprehensive data-set of historic climate data. Already John Graham-Cumming yes …
Read more “Data the key to the climate change debate : Part 2”
Over the next week or so the media will be full of stories from Copenhagen as the world’s leader fly into the city for United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP-15. There will no doubt be limited progress towards agreeing to reduce greenhouse gases emissions globally, getting international governments to agree on anything is difficult, and …
Yesterday the Prime Minister announced that many of the data products produced by Ordnance Survey are too be made “open data” free for download and use by both indivuduals and commerical organsiations in the UK. Our data has been freed ? Well of course we will still have to see the details but this is …
In the UK there is a saying about waiting ages for a bus and then two come along at the same time. In the world of location based or context based computing it’s not exactly the case that there is little happening, but yesterday produced two interesting stories. I had the pleasure on presenting at …
Read more “The Weasley Clock and Google Latitude a mashup waiting to happen”
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