Posts tagged in ‘innovation’

Like maps? In Sydney?Posted on October 13, 2008

My brother Steve has organised Australia’s first Ignite event, Ignite Spatial, coming up on Wednesday 12th November at the Occidental Hotel on York St, Sydney.
What is Ignite? It started in Seattle by O’Reilly and it’s a night of presentations and entertainment. Each presenter has 5 minutes and has 20 slides - each slide goes [...]

Tags: events, innovation

A beautiful and tragic Flash piecePosted on October 7, 2008

The BBC has put together a brilliant Flash piece around the timeline of British police shooting innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes after the London bombings in 2006.

It’s a fantastic use of Flash, incorporating maps, story-telling, photographs and CCTV footage of the incident, as reported in the trial of the police officers. It’s [...]

Tags: Speaking engagements, innovation, politics

Build your own Power bar (as long as you like sugar)Posted on September 17, 2008

Element Bars have just launched a site where you can make your own protein/power/nutrition bars by picking your ingredients from the website and buying them in packs of 36.
It’s a great idea as I don’t like the commercial nutrition bars available - they are always too sweet and make me feel sick as I [...]

Tags: innovation, random thoughts

Get off the slush pile (or rifle through it).Posted on September 2, 2008

Photo by Flickr user Makani5

For most of my life I have been obsessed with reading and writing - I was a nerdy bookworm when I was a kid, and grew into a nerdy bookworm as an adult. I’ve always been fascinated by the publishing process; from submitting a manuscript, getting on the slush pile, getting [...]

Tags: innovation

I wish Flickr or Facebook would add thisPosted on

The new version of Picasa (being released today) has an upgrade in facial recognition, meaning you won’t need to tag every photo.
Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for people based [...]

Tags: innovation

YouTube adds captioningPosted on August 28, 2008

YouTube have recently announced their new captioning features for all videos being uploaded onto their video service. The interface is quite simple and can be accessed through your “My Videos” interface, all you have to do is click the edit button on any videos you have uploaded in the past.
This is pretty cool. I know [...]

Tags: accessibility, innovation

Is this the future of music?Posted on August 26, 2008

I’ve mentioned before that I hate buying CDs - they just add clutter and I just convert them to digital anyway.
So I’m pretty excited about a new venture by some forward-thinking music executives (isn’t that an oxymoron?) about a new site that gives you the chance to invest in new acts and help them [...]

Tags: innovation

Google maps finally recognises walkersPosted on July 22, 2008

One of my small gripes with google maps has finally been rectified - they now do walking directions. I try to walk everywhere and I usually use google maps as a reference to see the distance to my destination.

At first glance it seems pretty good. They give walking time assuming about 19 minutes per [...]

Tags: Development, innovation

When your phone runs out of batteries… dance!Posted on July 9, 2008

Orange in Europe has just collaborated with GotWind (terrible name) to launch a mobile phone charger powered by dance. In what sounds like my worst nightmare, when you move your arms along to the music, a specially designed system of weights and magnets, similar to that found in kinetic energy watches, creates an electrical current [...]

Tags: innovation

Dexter is back with a brand new viralPosted on

I’ve blogged before about the brilliant dexter viral campaign they did a bit over a year ago.
Well they’re back with a second viral for season 3. Since blogging about it originally I’ve become addicted to the show and have watched season 1 and 2 back to back.
This viral is much the same in [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Marketing, innovation, memes