A very sensible report in today’s independent rebuts the nonsense reported in the Daily Mail last week. My house has a duck egg blue door in case you are interested.. Still I can die happy knowing that it some small way I have upset the Daily Mail 🙂
Got a nice email from Jennifer from O2 this morning, explaining why the iPhone 3G upgrade was such a disaster, the servers broke because… “Demand for iPhone 3G is staggering. We invested heavily in our website capacity which was tested carefully in advance, but we were experiencing 13,000 orders per second being placed, far beyond …
You would have though given the amount of hype, O2 would have expected people to try and buy/upgrade their iPhones as soon as they could. So with just a few days to the July 11th launch date, they roll out a clearly under powered infrastructure to take orders.. Love to hear if you manage it today, I’m …
Love this youTube video review from Nicks Technopics of the ground breaking Map Share feature on the current generation of Tom-Tom devices, but just look out for the coolest cheatcodes yet at the end of the video. Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
So my plans have changed and I will now be going along to the State of the Map Conference in Limerick. I Look forward to continuing the discussion of Map Maker over a few pints of the dark stuff… Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
I am impressed by the work that the Power of Information Task Force are doing, to drive forward the recommendations of last years highly influential report. Their latest initiative is Show Us a Better Way a £20,000 competition over the summer to identify the most useful new service which could be developed if public sector …
Last week Google introduced Map Maker a set of online map making tools to very positive… but not universal acclaim. I can understand where SteveC is coming from, but I think it’s important to clarify a few points. Map Maker is clearly not an open source project, and as such is not in competition with …
The latest release of one of my favourite location aware web applications Dopplr, has a fun new element as part of offering public profiles. Your “Personal Velocity” compares your travels and the time taken to make them, and nominates the animal closest to your average speed. I’m very happy to say that I’m a speedy …
Ok, so I like many geeks of my age along with my early Sinclair computers was an Amstrad user having a CPC and a PC clone at one point. Amstrad as a manufacturer of computers disappeared years ago, there is now the Viglen brand, but they are only bought by public sector organisation who don’t …
As reported today in the Guardian today, there are now guidelines as to how civil servants should make use of the web as a method of communication. The result, announced by the very web literate minister Tom Watson, is a very practical and simple set of guidelines. I can speak from personal experience that such …
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