The every-so lovely NewspaperClub have just announced their prices for printing your very own paper. And this shouldn’t have to be said, but I will … Printing your own Newspaper is very exciting. People are already used to printing books and to an extent magazines, (Blurb, lulu and MagCloud as examples) but newspaper up to [...]
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Tom Taylor, Gavin Bell and I made a newspaper but more on that in a moment. Considering everyone who reads this blog would have seen this already, I could just point you at the Newspaper Club’s own blog post: Data.gov.uk Newspaper, or this post over here: Postcode Paper: What you can do with the right [...]
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Today (finally) saw the launch of Kids on DSP‘s “Reactive Album” (more on that phrase later). You can get it from the App Store (iTunes App Store Link) Previously I’ve expressed my interest how it fits in with the whole Augmented Reality thing (hint: wear noise canceling headphones). While waiting for the full album I [...]
(sorry about the terrible video quality) … … an interesting form of spam, where a computer creates and very carefully controls and positions level 1 characters. Moving them perfectly, so when they die they all spell out the URL of gold sellers. To kill the character they use a hack that jumps them way above [...]
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I had the happy fortune to read two articles back-to-back; Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny: Tim Berners-Lee talking back in 1995 … … and Slide 43 of 44 of Matt Webb’s reboot11 talk. The thread that joins them together, Tim Berners-Lee talked a lot back then about how he hoped the Internet would help solve [...]
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After the last post I’ve been thinking about Ants* a lot, but more of that later (later time-wise not post-wise), in the mean time I missed this post from Fast Company a couple of days ago … iPhone Augmented Reality Which, while not being earth shatteringly insightful does add to the build up of interest [...]
Last night I was mulling over the new iPhone and 3.0OS stuff, and then Brady goes and covers most of it anyway: What the iPhone 3GS and 3.0 OS Means for Geo Devs. Really the two elements I was most interested in were the Compass for pretty much the reasons Brady (damn him!) states … [...]
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Oh #spymaster, I saw this comment posted to twitter the other day … “decides to stop following everyone who uses #spymaster. Do you guys even know what twitter is for?” … I have no arguments with the “stop following” part, everyone is free to do what they want. It’s the whole knowing what something is [...]
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http://www.fluffykittens.com/projects/panda2 Very alpha, you kinda need a fast machine and Firefox/Safari. More information here and here. That is all :)
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I can now officially say that after nearly 4 years I’m no longer working at Flickr, today was my last day, and I think it’s fair to say I’ll miss it terribly. There’s no other job quite like it. I’ll miss the people, I’ll miss the coding and I’ll miss the blogging. And besides, where [...]
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