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In my previous post about the “museum directory” I built at UK Museums on the Web mashup day, I mentioned a museum address CSV file from the 24hr Museum which I planned to put use at a later date. The original source I had contained *really* dodgy data and only about 380 institutions – I’d … Read more
Next up is Dave Morin who’ll hopefully be saying something interesting about Facebook Platform… 43 million active users, doubling every month. Very international – half users outside the US. 50% of users return daily. Social Graph: about sharing as much information as you can with as many ppl as you can. Photos: more traffic than … Read more
Ok. Obviously the intention was to live-blog the sessions I went to during Museums and the Web, but in the end it all comes down (unfortunately) to time, of which there simply isn’t enough (except when waiting for a damn plane). I’m working on an API using a RESTful approach to sort this out but … Read more
I’m two weeks into owning a Remarkable 2. I spent at least a year, maybe two, circling around whether to get one or not and finally took the plunge at the end of July. Key to the whole project to me was spending less time staring at the glare. I wanted something to read and … Read more
I’m off to the 2008 Foundation Symposium tomorrow, a day of asking: “what do current Web trends tell us about the future of ICT provision for learners and researchers?…” The programme and speakers look pretty good – Larry Johnson from NMC and Jem Stone from the Beeb to mention but a couple of the better … 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
According to the Google Checkout Blog, the big G have just launched Google Checkout for Non-Profits – with no charges at all either per-transaction or percentage until at least the end of 2008. So far though, this looks like it’s just for US based NFP’s. I’ll have a poke about the infosuperhighweb and see if … 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
Some time ago, Jacco Ouwerkerk contacted me having seen the interview I did with the Museum of London. He directed me towards a hugely exciting Augmented Reality application called UAR – “Urban Augmented Reality” which launched in the Netherlands in June 2010. Here’s what we talked about. Q: Please introduce yourself, and tell us about … Read more
Computing “in the cloud” is where it’s obviously at. Amazon’s S3 service gives access to remote disk space which can be accessed via API’s; ditto EC2 for actually doing the processing. And then of course there’s numerous applications from Google Docs to Slideshare to web based email. Not to mention web based photo editors such … Read more