Author: imran
It’s like a photo, but it moves!
Here’s my first Flickr video – from a visit to Boston in 2002 🙂 There’s been a lotta whining and grousing about the launch of video for Flickr Pro users today, with criticism largely polarising around the 90-second limit or elitist fears of a YouTube-style pollution of the pristine Flickr community. I these concerns will…
Exposing the APIs of invisible things
Kati London was one of my favourite speakers at the ETel Fair in February 2007. Along with other ITP students, Kati saved our asses when a bunch of speakers fell ill and they were able to put together a replacement session showcasing projects such as Kati’s Botanicalls to those who’d missed the Fair. I was…
Dotnorth Snippets…
A quick roundup of techly-geek things happening across the North… The results of the Leeds Flickr Group’s Photoshop CS3 course are online… Look out for Andy Mitchell’s GTDInbox, a Firefox addon that mods Gmail to reflect the Getting Things Done philosophy. Next week sees Manoj Ranaweera’s Northern Startup Business event, with talks from Liverpool Ventures,…
OpenCoffee Leeds {April} + Coworking Day
Last month’s OpenCoffee {March} could have been a bit of a downer, with only a handful of people attending. I’m still wondering if I shoulda canceled it while I was in the US for ETech and eComm, but sounds like 10-15 people did make it out to Loftart so it was worth keeping the doors…
TagTunes: Personal Discovery
Eight years of friction-free access to digital media mean I have so much music that it’s becoming easy to forget what I do and don’t own. I know I have all four Bethany Curve albums, but after recently watching couple of the Indiana Jones movies I was surprised to find I also had one of…
ETech Day Two… (*very* rough notes)
Nat strolled though some of the rationale for this year’s ETech before handing off to Stanford’s John McCarthy – the inventor of lisp! Steve cousins, an open source platform for personal robotics…willow garage is an R&D lab for non-miltary robotics. impact before capital. components include navigation, object recognition, object map, manipulation. domesticon bot poses an…
ETech Day One… (rough notes)
Saul Griffith – Energy Literacy, IoV! Your Cellphone Is Your Controller – megaphone, making digital signage interactice http://www.playmegaphone.com/ Eric Rodenback onstage from Stamen Design walking through various visualisations from Stamen’s portfolio – oakland crime maps, london olympics travel times and property/cummuting vectors Sun’s chief gaming officer – gamers are raising gamers…it’s not a new market,…
Westward…
Wow – flying from Manchester to JFK and onto San Diego with no delays or interrogations? I almost don’t believe it…maybe America’s loosening up in anticipation of a new President, maybe it’s no longer realistic to put Husseins on the Do Not Fly list or perhaps I just got lucky 🙂 During the next few…
(Dot)Northern Snippets
More goodies… Ray Kurzwell – yes Ray Kurzwell – has been added to the roster of speakers for Newcastle’s Thinking Digital in May. I don’t think the Singularity will emerge from the North East, but it’s possible to argue that Newcastle United players are transhuman 😉 Oh yeah, <coughs> Greg Dyke too. Media Lab Europe…
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
He’s back! I couldn’t help but grin when the first few bars of the Indy theme play over the classically Spielberg-ian shot of a silhouetted Indy pulling on his fedora… ‘Damn, I thought that was closer’. Cute, but funny enough without the dialogue George. Check out the HD versions at Yahoo…