The Machine That Changed the World: Great Brains
Andy Baio posts the original 90s documentaries online. These are genius. Only on the rewatch did I remember them from when I was 10, which is strange because I don’t remember much else from then at all!
Links for 04-06-2008
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Links for 28-05-2008
On-board vs. Off-board Comet
More Comet research. It’s on the list as the next technology to learn about after the next few weeks of Django. This along with XMPP
High Scalability: Facebook Chat
More on the colossal technical undertaking Facebook went through to build Facebook chat. This aside, I would like to see usage statistics for non automated opt in of the service.
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Links for 20-05-2008
Sorry for the lack of any description on these links, but it’s an Ontology special. All in the name of research for the BBC Introducing project.
BBC Programmes Ontology
Music Ontology
BBC Programmes Schema {PDF}
XTech2008: BBC Programme Ontology presentation
Creating an ontology {PDF}
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Links for 16-05-2008
Social Media Measurement Camp
New group recently set up and holding regular meetings to try to sort out some rules and tools around the measurement of the impact of social media usage in marketing
Social Media Measurement Camp – A write up…
…by Helen Lawrence from Dare Digital. Helen has managed to get in a quip about Will McInnes’ choice of socks so you know this is worth reading.
Facebook’s latest software engineering challenge
I don’t like Facebook Chat but that’s just me. This is a good write up of their approach to using Erlang and Comet to run a system that would most likely go from 0-70million users the second it went live.
More from Dare
A recent collaborative animation made for Sony Vaio in conjunction with John Malkovich. Again from Helen Lawrence at Dare, it’s her day!
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Links for 07-05-2008
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!
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Links for 01-05-2008
Yahoo! Media Player
It’s just too easy to use this, and it looks nice.
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Links for 26-04-2008
[Via Derivadow] Designing Your API – lessons from Twitter and Digg
Really want to work an API into the Introducing development. As I’m writing the ‘wishlist’ at the moment, this is good stuff.
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.
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Links for 25-04-2008
Four Factors of Agile UX
Quick fire article on approaches to bear in mind when working on UX on an agile development
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Links for 05-06-2008
Tim O’Reilly latest thoughts on ubicomp and CI
Beth Garrod’s response to Techcrunch
Some answers to the questions posed last month by Mike Butcher on TCUK
Pool Party – Cloud EC2 Computing Made Easy
I like this ethos, I haven’t tried it. Plus I have no pool, the nearest one is the Tooting Bec Lido and I don’t really fancy that to be fair. Deploy and sit on sofa is probably more British summer.