Where 2.0 has finished now, although it carries on with WhereCamp. It was fun and the first one I’ve been to where I didn’t have to do any talking, which makes it doubly fun, possible for everyone. I missed Wednesday, but managed some of the workshops on Tuesday and talks on Thursday. There are a [...]
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Yay, it’s Where 2.0 time again, which means heading off inordinately early in the morning. Last year was at Millbrae … … this year San Jose. Where [badum] I’m hoping to catch-up with the many interesting people who make the yearly pilgrimage. Somehow this seems to happen via each of our Profile Pages (only slightly [...]
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Maybe a little tricky to follow what’s going on without me wildly waving my arms around but I promised to put the slides up online (I used keynote converted to pdf, so you’re missing my notes, which were mostly swearing anyway) … | View | Upload your own … to start with you have to [...]
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And now I’m in a burger joint getting food and tapping this out on a phone. I’ll get slides and supporting material up over next week once I’ve removed all the swearing from the notes :)
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Stefan over at Ogle Earth has just reminded me that I’m speaking at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo this March (Upcoming event here). Should be fun, I’m hoping for some tea and biscuits in the bar afterwards. Anyway here’s the blurb about my bit that I didn’t write while on medication but probably sounds like [...]
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Goodness knows why ;-) but I’ll be following the “Developing with Geo” stream.Anybody know the best way to the San Jose Convention Center by 9am without a car and then how to get back from the Google Campus at 9pm?Oh, or just meet up for a chat, drop me a line.See you there.
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Maps and data you can download, use, all without rate limits or money.Ed Parsons is speaking, yes the Ed Parsons from Google, yes, that Google…. Even if he doesn’t link back from his images on his blog to Flickr.Others I can totally recommend going there just so you can corner them and ask them lots of questions are; Mikel Maron, Tim Waters, William Cartwright and Andrew Turner.
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I is…At the Maker Faire this Sunday on the Flickr bit of the Yahoo!… 2pm to 4pm is my shift, although I’ll be there someplace with Mrs Catt and the Kittens taking in the sites beforehand.
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So while some other blogs cover Google sending a small plane over parts of Sydney on the 26th (the place not Jennifer Garner) I’m rather taken with these …From Plasticbag.orgAnyway, one of the fun things that happened over the weekend was that Chris DiBona announced that Google were going to be doing a flyover of the campus and that we should take the opportunity to make some interesting art projects that would subsequently be visible from Google Maps and Google Earth. So we did.The rumour is you’ll be able to see this in context on the sites and services concerned sometime in the middle of February, but Chris has been gracious enough to send me a Creative Commons-licensed snapshot of the entire campus showing both the project that Cal, Simon, Paul, Heathcote, Suw Charman, Biddulph and I put together (with help from lovely people like Jane), and the competing project that Chris and Jane masterminded themselves.
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