…but I still need to decide for sure what I’m going to go and watch. Here’s what I’m really looking forward to, and the choices I can’t quite decide on just yet.
Day One, Thursday 9th October
Obviously I’ll be first second (sorry, she’s ahead of me) in line to see Kevin Rose talk on The Future [...]
Posted at 23:45 on September 24th 2008, tagged as conference, fowa, fowa08, london, with 2 comments
I’m really into my Google Maps at the moment. With the amount I’m using it, it’s easily my favourite Google service, except maybe Gmail. Or Reader. Or Analytics. Screw it, they’re all brilliant.
The latest creation comes from a service called map a list, which Lifehacker played with a month ago. I couldn’t think of a [...]
Posted at 20:25 on September 24th 2008, tagged as google, googlemaps, mapping, with one comment
Spent half an hour this evening trying to think on what the deal with iTunes’ new Genius feature is… nobody’s totally clear on how it works, so I thought I’d half-heartedly check into whether it works better for people with a more mainstream music taste or not. Here’s the results from me pulling a few [...]
Posted at 0:11 on September 23rd 2008, tagged as itunes, lastfm, research, twitter, with no comments yet
I’m lucky to be going to the Future of Web Apps conference this October… and unlike last year, I’m there on a proper student ticket this time. That means I get to go see talks from the likes of Digg, Google, Dopplr, Rev3, Twitter, Sun, Amazon, and Facebook (deep breath), as well as some from [...]
Posted at 20:25 on September 22nd 2008, tagged as conference, diggnation, fowa, fowa08, london, with no comments yet
Put this map together this afternoon, and it scares me quite a bit. It shows the 25 teenage boys and one girl who have been killed inside the M25 since the beginning of 2008 (I think I got them all).
The Google Map is embedded, so click through if you can’t see it in an RSS [...]
Posted at 19:30 on September 14th 2008, tagged as london, mapping, murder, teen, with 5 comments
No matter how much negative press the App Store is getting at the moment, I’m continually surprised by the availability (and quality) of the software you can get without spending anything at all. Trailguru is a MediaWiki (think software that runs Wikipedia) based site for tracking your running, hiking and snowboarding using GPS.
Sign up for [...]
Posted at 10:54 on September 14th 2008, tagged as appstore, iphone, web, with one comment
