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  • OpenCoffee Leeds {Tre}

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    The clouds parted, the sun shone and our third OpenCoffee Leeds event was another great success with our largest turnout – we counted thirty-one people in the Loftart gallery, even though we had with 28 definites out of 45 registered at Upcoming. I’m really pleased that we’re seeing new people amongst the crowd as well…

  • Make Your Mark

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    A few days ago, I was invited to join the Mark Your Mark campaign as a Connector by the organisation’s Oli Watts. Funny, as a designer 7-8 years ago, I worked on a website for The Body Shop’s Make Your Mark campaign, marking the 50th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. This campaign,…

  • Music for Time Travel – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

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    When I first heard How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? while trawling through my friend Mike’s music, I wondered why I’d never heard of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings? They sounded like a band from another time, even their cover art is kinda old skool…but they’ve actually only been around since 2002.…

  • Future Of Web Apps Expo

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    Wow – it’s come around quicker than I expected. Ryan Carson’s Future of Web Apps returns to London in October, along with a brand-new expo event. Carson’s VP of Sales, Andrew Calvo has told me he’s offering startups a discount on the basic exhibit package, reducing the standard rate of £ 2195 + VAT to…

  • Pipery

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    I just built my first Yahoo Pipes application, using Gina Trapani’s Lifehacker tutorial. The app creates a single feed from my posts at O’Reilly’s ETel blog, TechCrunch UK and Corante’s Mobile Messaging 2.0. Here’s how I did it… Create a Fetch module for all three feeds. Pipe the fetched feeds into a Filter module that…

  • Trippy – Nokia Sports Tracker & Google Earth

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    After learning about the Nokia Sports Tracker almost a month ago, I finally managed to get it working. Apparently, there was a stray folder on my phone’s memory card which meant the application shut down each time I tried to record a GPS track. The software is clunky, but the integration with Google Earth is…

  • Blogger’s Guilt – Cured!

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    Back in the saddle… TSVP – Téléphone s’il vous plaît Phoney Records Doormail Hand(se0 Signals… Thanks for listening 🙂

  • Bat-trailer

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    Yay! There’s a new Batman Dark Knight teaser trailer at Why So Serious? You get to see – um – nothing? UPDATE: Sounds like 2008’ll also see an anime-style, straight-to-DVD Batman movie set between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight…in the vein of Clone Wars, Dark Fury and Animatrix 🙂

  • Pretty In Sixteen Pink Breakfast Candles

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    Mark Ronson on The Kaiser Chiefs’ You Can Have It All… ‘It could have been the slow dance song in a John Hughes movie – like Molly Ringwald all bummed and stuff, before the cute guy she’s been secretly in love with comes over and takes her hand.’ I see it too and I want…

  • Blogger’s Guilt…

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    So, it’s been almost two months since I posted for O’Reilly and Corante, so I figured I should pull my finger out… Haptic Messaging Phones Are People Too Over The Air Talktiva See you in October 😉