I’ve just got 5 sign-ins for Freebase to give away. It’s currently in alpha and not available to new users but has just sent out invites to all registered users to extend the testing of the service. I wrote a post about the service a while back – it’s a kind of Semantic Webby approach … Read more
I’ve posted a page about how I built the museum directory mashup which I demonstrated during my talk at the UK Museums on the Web conference last week. This started off as a KML file for displaying UK museums on Google Earth but the natural direction was to push it into a simple framework which … Read more
Readwriteweb has just started a new series called “All you need to know about…” and first up is e-learning 2.0. There are some great applications here – some of them are very familiar to me but others are new. Check out Nuvvo for example – “an easy way to build online courses and deliver them … Read more
‘Web Adept‘, the UK Museums on the Web conference has been and gone, and I reckon it’s been another interesting year – I really enjoyed helping pull together Mashed Museum and the conference day itself was good too, no to mention the usual opportunities to get together with people you haven’t seen for a while … Read more
Cheating a bit, as it’s no longer hack day. But who’d notice? I’ve just given my presentation on what we all achieved yesterday. When I’m not writing this on my PDA, I’ll upload and link it. Until then, here’s a list of what we did: – a Yahoo Pipes ‘find museums near…’ – uk museums … Read more
Well, we’ve started.. Everyone found the building which was a good start…and Ross bought a bunch of sweets, which is also proving a boon. Top dollar organisational skills from the man – we’ve decamped upstairs to where there’s a stronger wifi signal and all seems to be groovy. We’re even spoilt with 2 machines each…almost … Read more
I’m lurking in a particularly grim hotel in Leicester right now, just getting together some thoughts for Mashed Museum tomorrow. Unpleasantness aside, I have wifi (ouch, expensive), running water, and electric light. And the bar is still open so I may head down for a “lonely bloke in hotel” pint in a moment.. <off topic> … Read more
I’m getting very excited about the UK Museums on the Web spring school – this year Ross has asked me and Dan Z to help organise. We’ve come up with the concept of Mashed Museum. This will be a kind of hack day unconference type thing – a bunch of like minded museum tech types … Read more
I was just fiddling with some pictures at home and using Picasa to manage them when I found an answer referring to a Picasa Web Albums API. The official documentation is over on Google Code and it already looks like some companies are creating some pretty exciting stuff using it. Picasa has always been a … Read more
Adobe Apollo moved from developer preview to beta recently, and also changed its name to Adobe AIR. This is a very, very exciting space – it gives much more flexibility for the creation of Rich Internet Apps. Rather than learning up on VB or other horriblenesses, AIR lets developers use skills they already have in … Read more