I went along to a very interesting and well delivered presentation in front of it must be said a rather disappointing audience at the British Computer Society in London yesterday evening. “Make Mashups Correct, Complete, Relevant and Revisited” was a presentation originally given by Jonathan Lowe of Giswebsite LLP at Where 2.0, and as Jonathan …
A heartbeat away? no not that Palin I mean this one. From http://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com/ Written and submitted from the Google Office, London.
Although my first computer was the famous and popular Sinclair Spectrum, the first computer I actually used was this.. The Research Machines 380Z, was designed by RM for the schools market, it was never a good looking machine, or anywhere near as successful as the BBC Micro or Apple II, but I will always have …
Seems like only last year, ah yes it was last year, that the bored press hits upon it annual “shock horror – nobody can read maps” story. This year there is a slightly different spin, due to the input of the British Cartographic Society (BCS) complaining that nobody is creating maps like they used to.. Modern online maps and satnavs …
From the Mapperz blog, news that Bill Chadwick has added the ability to use the Google Earth plugin to his excellent “Where is the Path” application. For a long time this has been in my mind the best OS OpenSpace API site, allowing users to visualise routes using both the excellent OS maps and Google …
Lisa and I sat down last night and watched the excellent first epsiode of a new BBC series Britain for Above, which uses beautiful aerial photography to illustrate what can best be described as the “Geography of Britain”. This looked fantastic in HD (Virgin media managed to key the one HD channel they supply working …
Placespotting A interesting idea, a simple game that works like a visual crossword puzzle, uses the Google Maps infrastructure to create a zoomed in image of an area which you must identify from a global maps using the clue provided. So for example, this place is.. In the heart of Europa, but not EU This bridge is next to a famous wooden …
From boingboing, geeks are hard a work carrying out the equivalent of IT archaeology on a cassette tape containing the original BASIC for the Apple 1. For those of you not into building you own Apple 1 emulator on your Macbook and the necessary audio interface, you can still use this artefact as a tribute to the greatness of …
This job advertisment is interesting, not surprising for the most web savy candidate so far. I wonder how much of what happens when this technology is applied to a presidential campaign will become public. If we hear very little, then you will know it has made a big impact ! Written and submitted from the …
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 🙂
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