I went along today to an excellent showcase of the academic worlds take on Web 2.0 approaches and neogeography. Organised by the team at CASA at UCL the event attracted a large crowd for a one day event to London’s Barbican Centre. Although I was only able to attend the afternoon the presentations I attended …
Interesting “My Map” by techcrunch uk, locating Web 2.0 startup in London, seems like Shoreditch is still the place to be.. View Larger Map Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
Unhackable A nice geeky cover version Bob Ricci “Unhackable”. OGC and GopherCan OGC W*S services be compared to Gopher (Who remembers Gopher) ? Interesting argument, I think I agree although WMS could just be the exception. Does that mean SDI efforts will end up like Veronica ? OS Openspace Example One of the first OS …
Seemed to have reached that point this week, when my kids (aged 10 and 8 ) pointed out this youtube video as the greatest thing they had every seen, and the point of much playground discussion. As a lover of all thing to do with aviation I had to agree. Compliments to SAC Dean Tabreham, …
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We can expect to see numerous stories from Barcelona this week as the The Mobile World Congress 3GSM as was takes place, and is the focus of much of the industry interest. As we all increasingly access the network online, shows like this are becoming more important, the battleground for market share is moving from …
I don’t normally advertise these type of courses, however in this case I am happy to make an exception due to location. City University are running a State of the Art in Location Based Services 2008 masterclass, on March 5th before the KTN event ‘Location Based Services 2008 – LBS in the Public Sector‘ on …
A little from left field as most people have been thinking about the upcoming Location Strategy publication, The Communities and Local Government Select Committee published their report on the Ordnance Survey on Saturday. Despite the dry nature of a select committee report, it is worth reading because there are some key findings nobody other than …
Virgin, the brand what does that mean to you.. Are you looking to fly the Atlantic, or become a space tourist, or are you a concerned saver of the Northern Rock bank, in such cases virgin is probably a positive association, innovative products, good customer service etc., indeed these are the aspects of customer service …
For many years as a user of Apple computers since the Macintosh LC I was quite happy to be a member of the minority of computer users at odds with the majority of other computers users, happy to stand out as a member of “the cult of mac“. Now of course things are different pop …
OK so it’s a lot more limited than many other mapping API’s out there, and it has certainly taken a long time to reach this point but the fact that OS Openspace is now open for business is a huge achievement, and believe me I know personally what a great achievement getting to this point …
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