links for 2008-05-16

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Links for 07-05-2008

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H3: Beginners Arduino workshop 6
If you’ve ever wondered about taking software and interfacing it with physical objects this could be a good start. Even if you’ve heard of Arduino and want a great introduction. I did this workshop back in November and it was WELL worth the money.

Put your house on Twitter
AndySC lives on the Isle of Wight yet I know how much electricity he consumes, when his phone is ringing and when he turns his lights on and off.

“Band In Your Hand” gets press
A slice of fried gold augmented reality idea from my colleague Hugh Garry finally hits the press. More of this kind of thing!

Links for 01-05-2008

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Yahoo! Media Player
It’s just too easy to use this, and it looks nice.

Links for 26-04-2008

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Ubuntu AMIs for Amazon EC2
Most of my EC2 instances run Fedora, which is fine, I just prefer Ubuntu as a Linux option and Alestic has a large span of AMIs to use.

Links for 25-04-2008

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Links for 22-04-2008

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A small bit of press (finally) for the Sound Index
I was starting to wonder why, months after it’s launch, there wasn’t more press about this potentially industry changing product. The Guardian sort of finds out.

Semantic Spend
The Economist suggests that close on $100m has been spent by smaller, new companies on the addition of semantic web technologies in the last 12 months

OpenCalais: Reuters semantic web service
They’re going for the Giant Global Graph. Wow, big talk. Nice service however, attaching semantic markup to any content you submit to it.

What the hell am I on about?

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A question that I didn’t think I’d ever get an answer to. However, all of that changed this evening when everything I’ve been wittering on about on Twitter for the past 18 months or so was presented to me in cloud form!

Tweetclouds takes your Twitter feed and bundles the most used words into a cloud (see above for the collated joy of my past 500 tweets). It’s a nice, simple application that offered me more of a revelation than anything particularly useful.

In some ways it’s like being able to get some stats for your own life (if you care that much). I’m a big fan of any kind of data porn or visualisation and after seeing this I have to admit, I’d be interested in finding more ‘lifestats’ apps like this.

So, a slightly light hearted analysis of the cloud is in order, given that my tweets aren’t particularly focussed on any one topic, or really that focussed at all.

Here’s what I gleaned from the pulsing mass of blue above:

<beginanalysis>
I go places like the office to do some work or my house (to continue to work), mainly during the day. I am occasionally distracted by going drinking or thinking about which new, nice things I need at some point during said day. Whilst doing all this I have worked on some projects, ordered some pizza and possibly stopped some strange street stuff whilst being stuck on the District Line.
</endanalysis>

Revealing. I guess I should do it again about tweet number 1000 and see if my endless babble has changed in any way.

Edit: On a work tip, here’s the cloud for a sample of about 11,000 records played over the last year on BBC Radio 1: www.tweetclouds.com/user_pages/bbcradio1.html

Links for 15-04-2008

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Links for 19-03-2008

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Links for 18-03-2008

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