Hallowe’en was a special time for me growing up. Alongside St Patrick’s day it made me feel connected with with my wider family in Ireland. We would have a barm brack sent to us by my Granny. This is kind of like a giant tea cake but richer or less stodgy than say Soreen. It [...]
Future Perfect » The Touchmedia Tax – fascinating myth of the ‘captive audience’ The facial recognition revolution – CNN.com Blogs Five-Year Plan launches China textiles on new course – move to South East Asia and less developed parts of China coupled with increasing automation Panasonic expected to post Y300 bil loss ‹ Japan Today – [...]
YouTube user SpiritPlumber put up a video showing how to make an impromptu cellphone charger from off-the-shelf components available in a Radio Shack (think Maplins in the UK). The impressive thing is that these were not bench assembled, but built on-the-fly in the electronics store a la the US fictional TV show McGyver of the [...]
La Quadrature du Net have dialled up their protest against ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) in advance of the European Union bringing it into law. A report by the European Parliament has pointed out that ACTA is bad for EU countries. Or as La Quadrature du Net put it: ACTA is an agreement secretly negotiated by [...]
Nokia (NOKA.NX) released an interesting short film of the manufacturing process for its Nokia N9 handsets. You can watch it on Tudou here. A number of aspects of the film fascinated me: The amount of work that was done by CNC machines (the drill-type machines) rather than mouldings to create the polycarbonate body of the [...]
Brand Disloyalty: Recession-weary Consumers Take Discounts to the Extreme – Knowledge@Wharton Only Connect: Facebook, From The Eyes of an Old Newbie | John Battelle’s Search Blog – really interesting post on the Facebook experience Daring Fireball Linked List: Apple Lossless Audio Codec Now Open Source Phone Wars: What the Fans Say « Sysomos Blog – [...]
Ok so the title is a lie, as one of my friends once told me “you could live here a lifetime and still not know it” but I really like this video which is a whistle-stop tour of Chinese culture, economics, history and politics. The video is on Tudou, so you may need to be [...]
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Taken from Jonathan Ive’s speech at Apple’s remembrance service for Steve Jobs: Steve used to say to me — and he used to say this a lot “Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea.” And sometimes they were. Really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But sometimes they took the air from the room and they [...]
Magnetic RAM could soon absorb and use waste heat | ExtremeTech TSMC R&D chief sees 10 more years of scaling EU’s Kroes aims to cut copper access prices to boost fibre investment Visa, MasterCard Looking Into Online Targeted Advertising Using Credit-Card Data – WSJ.com Netflix and the economics of nonrival goods | Felix Salmon Nokia [...]
Author Jeff Jarvis on sharing versus privacy. Jarvis talks about the importance of ‘publicness’ to try and balance the privacy debate. Jarvis doesn’t see publicness as the enemy of privacy. Outtakes Privacy concerns usually happens with the changes of norms comes along with technological change Privacy is about feelings in US law, it is different [...]
I was fortunate to participate in a panel discussion recently at a conference discussing measurement | ROI for social media activity and dropped in to witness a couple of the prior performances as it helps you to get a feel for the audience and the kind of issues that came up. One issue that seemed [...]
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government has always had the best online presence of all the different government departments, but I still find it interesting that it is they rather than the department of media and culture who are looking to lead a discussion on the future of the web and associated [...]
MixMeister Free Stuff :: BPM Analyzer Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female – Slashdot Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief Scott Noteboom — Cloud Computing News – ex-Microsoft data centre guy Kevin Timmons who was Noteboom’s predecessor has gone to smaller data centre company – fast turnaround Hundreds march against ruling on Filipino maid | [...]
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