Friday, July 31st, 2009
I found this film whilst reading the post 11 industries that will be redefined with augmented reality
And here's an article on education and AR
Slightly different from AR but connected to the education theme is a post Henry Jenkins made in ...
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The Guardian writes
In the first of our Activate videos, Gerry Jackson, founder and director of SW Radio Africa, delivers a powerful and humbling presentation on the difficulties of providing independent information to a country stripped of its most fundamental freedoms. ...
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Not all these members are active but I can't think of anything, anywhere, that has grown so ...
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Rennee Blodgett writes about her recent visit to Cambridge and interviews the CEO of True Knowledge
True Knowledge improves the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Think: semantic search. Their first service–the True Knowledge Answer Engine–is a major step ...
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Over the course of the past week Blyk has evolved from its standalone MVNO status, to integrating with mobile operators, eventually across the world. Bringing with it the knowledge and insight of how to effectively use the mobile platform for ...
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Jamias Cascio brings his own dimension to the Amazon Kindle story - he writes
Now, as I've mentioned a few times, I have a Kindle. I'm reasonably happy with it, and I bought it with open eyes about the implications of ...
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital Britain
A while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...
Monday, July 27th, 2009
says Time Berners Lee
The man credited with creating the web says that television channels will be history and that the internet should be able to offer a random access library of anything that has ever been broadcast. Twenty years after ...
Monday, July 27th, 2009
I started writing about the dataflow wars on 1st May 2008 and updated that idea several times subsequently thereafter.
John Naughton brings to our attention Amazon's terms of service for its Kindle, comparing such terms as just the same as George ...
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Was the dictum of E.M. Forster - and this is something that technologies of cooperation enable us to do in powerful ways, that create in the process; deeper context and greater meaning in those rapid-fire communications.
Outside of the essays, long ...
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16th March Ballroom B. My @sxsw presentation that covers the themes and topics of The No Straight Lines Project, so come along to cheer me along, heckle or profoundly disagree with my point of view.