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  • Road to V > The Good Die Young

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    Paul’s just signed up his band, The Good Die Young, for the Road to V and hopefully a chance to open at the V Festival. TGDY play self-described Anthemic Indie Rock. Head on over to their Road to V profile page, have a listen to Cut From and (if you love me) rate them a…

  • Little Big Planet

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    Could this be enough to tempt me into buying a PS3…a game from the makers of Rag Doll Kung Fu AND a soundtrack by  The Go! Team?! The clip above isn’t  half as impressive as the level creation capabilities built into the game itself 🙂

  • The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Interaction Design

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    I take it back…I was a little unmoved by Matt Webb’s playsh at ETech 2006 and conceded I might not have fully grasped the implications of his work, but after reading Schulze & Webb’s recent The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Interaction Design, I’m really taken with Matt’s approach to design 🙂 Some…

  • Leeds Met: Teaching New Media

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    I was invited to a workshop on Teaching New Media at my old university, Leeds Met, yesterday morning. Ben asked me to present a fifteen-minute talk on Carbon and what we’re doing to help regional startup culture; my presentation is below… I’d come prepared to talk about how industry and academia could collaborate on startup…

  • Iconik

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    In Summer 2005, Liz designed a set of Aqua-esque icons for a proposed Orange Firefox browser that Mark and I were working on. The project was never finished and I’d almost forgotten about Liz’s mini-project until today…Liz’s icons are too good to remain hidden, sO I figured I’d blog ’em for posterity 🙂 If things…

  • ETel – Day One & Two

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    My snippets from the first day of Emerging Telephony… Nokia continues to say all the right things…as well as the usual stories of mobile payments and convergence devices, Tero Ojanperä namechecked augmented reality applications; refreshingly Nokia understands that the path to proliferation for such technologies is an open and inclusive developer community. Rajesh Veeraraghavan, of…

  • ETel – Day Zero

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    My snippets from the workshops day at ETel 2007… Breakfast with Brady, Anish, Bruce and Serena – Brady scared be my taking me to one side, but actually wanted to introduce Carbon to Mark and Bryce at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures 🙂 I’ve been looking forward to Sean Moss-Pulko’s segment on OpenMoko and the Neo1973 since…

  • Everything You Wanted To Know About Venture Capital

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    Index Ventures’ Ben Holmes presented a very useful guide to venture capital at last week’s Future Of Web Apps… I’m really liking Slideshare’s embedding feature…kinda like a YouTube for presentations. The web-based presenter space is starting to hot up, so I hope Rich still plans to work on presentto.us 🙂

  • At The Edge Of The World…

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    …for the next week, I’m in San Francisco, at the edge of the world, in a valley made of silicon teeming with some of humanity’s smartest people – my sixth trip to the city…it’s always exhilarating. This weekend I’ll be hanging out with friends and partners, plotting the future of Carbon; during the week I’ll…

  • Weapon Of Ass Destruction

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    I’ve been morbidly fascinated by the Scoville rating of chilliness ever since I paid a visit to San Diego’s Hot Licks. Today, NMSU announced the Scoville-busting Bhut Jolokia chile – officially the world’s most potent sphincter-shrinker… this butt-biohazard bears more than twice the spice of the previous record holder… so smokin’ hot, Stephen Hawking dubbed…