Google have just updated their Street View to include Flickr Photos … … you can see this in action here. Flickr joins Panaramio and Picasa as a source of photos. Flickr has always had plenty of good quality geotagged photos, so this looks like a handy addition to the whole Street View thing. No word [...]
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Ebb and Flow of Melbourne Trains by Flink Labs Originally uploaded by flinklabs Because I was going to post about my new job, but got tired and found this instead. “Inspired by several visualisations showing GPS tracks of planes, taxis, and people, we have produced a visualisation showing the ebb and flow of the trains [...]
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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 [...]
Now if only we could have him taking giant strides over the moon’s surface ;) Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
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“She folds and cuts individual maps by region to produce clothes not to be worn but rather hung, mostly pleated parochial dresses and button-down shirts made out of modern maps. Universal by nature, her work is popular wherever shown.” Several more at the site: Elisabeth Lecourt at Fairfax Contemporary Art Galleries, something to go with [...]
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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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Single Sentence Synopsis: Buildings could offer WiFi photo uploading service, in return for keeping the photos taken of them. This post is the second part in a trilogy, but also the part that’s been bouncing around in my mind the most. So in Star Wars saga style, I’m writing the middle part first. I’ll get [...]
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