I’ve been making more maps using myGmaps … This map shows the free wireless (wifi) broadband points in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. The problem I’ve found is that although I can take a screen shot and photoshop in some reference points,… Continue Reading
Sponsored by backstage.bbc.co.uk, Open Tech 2005 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference about technologies that anyone can have a go at, from "Open Source"-style ways of working to repurposing everyday electronics hardware. Taking place on 23rd July, 2005, in… Continue Reading
In 1985 I purchased my first modem, a 300 baud Hayes, and connected it to my Apple IIe. Within a few months, a friend of mine, who was later arrested following an FBI investigation, taught me how to hack credit… Continue Reading
Take the API for Google Maps (other projects doing this), combine it with images on Flickr tagged with postcodes or longitude/latitude, and you’ve got Geobloggers . I typed in the postcode for my office, W1A 1AA: Doing this and pulled… Continue Reading
Reporting on the recent Search Engine Strategies 2005 conference, hosted by Search Engine Watch, Jane Wakefield of BBC News Online writes that: "The battle is set to intensify as search becomes more relevant, more personal and more localised, representatives from… Continue Reading
There will be (just) two presentations and a panel discussion about mobile communities at Mobile Entertainment Market (MEM) 2005, a two day conference taking place at Earls Court, London starting on the 15th of June: Generating revenues through community services:… Continue Reading
This morning I came across a fairly comprehensive list of hosted blogging services and blog (server) software. If you think of any that aren’t on the list, please post them as a comment below.
Following the lead of Technorati, Flickr and Yahoo, the BBC recently launched backstage, a site where developers can share ideas and prototypes demonstrating how BBC content can be used in different, and often quite interesting, ways. Reported by BBC News… Continue Reading
Quite a few charities and NGO’s, for example Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, have recognised that using blogs can help them to get their message across to a new audience. One of the problems that ordinary websites have is… Continue Reading
About this time last year, I was putting the final touches on a presentation I would later give as the opening presentation of TPSA’s Akademia TP Trendy Przyszłości in Warsaw. It probably wasn’t the most interesting presentation I’ve ever given,… Continue Reading