A story about social media
Today I was fortunate to spend 30 minutes talking to the Social Media Leadership Forum. I themed my talk around how we create, consume and analyse content online. Here’s a breakdown of the technologies I talked about. Bing Twitter Maps…
Microsoft Technology, a trip through recent history and a glimpse of the future
Here’s some links from the talk I gave today. Out of context of the presentation and without the narrative, they are still fun to explore. World Wide Telescope – http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ pptPlex – http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx Seadragon example – http://www.nli.ie/discover/ Photosynth – http://photosynth.net/…
Robot Fish ‘Charlie’. This is James Bond, need to know time via The CIA (sshhh)
The CIA have launched YouTube and Flickr accounts showing off historical videos and pictures. ‘The idea behind these improvements is to make more information about the agency available to more people, more easily,’ Director Panetta said in a statement. ‘The…
I’ve fallen in love with a robot (via @MissRobotics)
Something in me thinks this isn't real, but that's probably because it's so special and, well, magical. I could show it to my kids and they'd probably just shrug and say 'well, that's just the way things work these days,…
Rules. Games. Playing the rules. Playing the game.
Watching my kids play always surprises me. They create their own games with their own rules and these rules change as the game is played, as it matures. Often that maturity happens over a period of minutes, not hours, days…
Social flying revolution by @planely
I’m not sure that i get this, but then I don’t get Facebook either. However, I do use Facebook (occasionally) and I’m going to use this on the next few flights I’ll be on. something tells me this will be…
Bristol cars goes into administration. Here’s the Blenheim Speedster. How very, very lovely
Each time I pass Bristol Car's only showroom I stop and gaze in awe at the Blenheim Speedster that sits in the window in Kensington. There are no prices on the cars and little is known about how many are…
Chem4Word – something for the chemist in you. Chemistry Add-in for Word
Wondering what alternative storytelling use this could have:
The magic of TV car scenes. So that’s how they don’t crash during filming.
I’ve always known that there’s usually a bit of trickery involved, cars travelling on the back of trucks, sitting in a studio with a projection screen in the background, but some of these green screens are pretty incredible: Stargate Studios…
It was possible to send a postcard to a friend in the morning arranging to meet in the park in the afternoon
Crazy different world. Well, it was 100 years ago. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous