January 30, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos produced on our own time. Great one to explain to your mum what a blog is or social bookmarking.
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We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people-if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
January 29, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
January 28, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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The Stanford University Bio-X program supports, organizes, and facilitates interdisciplinary research connected to biology, medicine, engineering, information sciences, physics and chemistry.
January 27, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Taking its name from the immersive virtual world imagined by Neal Stephenson in his visionary novel, Snow Crash, the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) is the first public ten-year forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, applications, markets, and pote
January 26, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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Useful site collecting audio from all the main speakers at events such emerging technology, poptech, where2.0 and items such as *interviews with innovators* - one for the ipod commute
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"[presented at] TED conference in 2006. I think he does a good job of explaining how mentally immersive games are becoming. (Reading a book about a war is nothing like being in that war.)" - this 22 yr old drove 25k real and 35k virtual miles-great video
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Google tech talk April 2007. World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and 'searchabiliity' to even the most mundane of physical products.
January 23, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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great example of documenting and presenting what you have done. A fair amount of data capture must have been going on through out the year.... maybe some inspiration for our internal end of year investment report.....
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Excellent write up by Dan of his talk at Interesting South, Sydney. If you want to understand why i am measuring *stuff* or what is that i am doing then read this.
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Van der Heide also draws clients into the creative mix. “If you go to the theater, why is it beautiful? It’s the magic of sharing the moment.... interesting interview with Rogier VdH
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This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them.
January 12, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
January 10, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
The end of 2007 saw the final conference for the DTI Bop project. There has been a number of PR items around it including airtime on BBC Radio 5 (on the morning of the conference) and BBC Radio 4's Today programme. It also appeared in Design Week. The move into 2008 means the two DTI / TSB projects we have been working on applying wireless sensor networks within an office environment are coming to a close but two new projects are starting up.
The first is an EU FP7 project called SENSEI (evolved from EU FP6 project called e-Sense) looking at networks of wireless sensor networks. We are providing input to the scenarios and business requirements.
The second called ITOBO is with UCC and is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. Other partners include HSG, CYLON, Vector FM, and Intel. ITOBO will undertake research in Information and Communication Technology that will enable us to develop a holistic, methodological framework for life-cycle oriented information management and decision support in the construction and energy-management sectors. The domain-specific goal is to develop an anticipating (smart) building that operates on an energy efficient and user-friendly basis while reducing its maintenance costs. (More info for Arup staff is on the research wiki)
January 10, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
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...According to Duncan Wilson, who describes himself as a 'futurist' at engineering group and Bop partner Arup, there are commercial benefits to be gained from applying pervasive computing technologies to the design of working environments....
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While there may be a new generation that thinks that email is for old fogies, for many of us, email is a primary online tool, at least as important to us as the web. Many of us no longer file documents or attachments -- we just search for them again in ou
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Have just started to use Xobni Insight and after a week of use the verdict is great - finally a tool that helps me to understand the how I use the application I consistently spend most of my time in. ...[It] is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers
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just arrived via Amazon - looking forward to getting some weekend time to play with this book...
January 10, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
two months later, two additions to the family (Aoife and Orla) and hopefully the blog posts will start again.
