There’s been a lot of noise in the Blogosphere about Wikipedia, like this article at Techdirt. Wikipedia, in case you missed it, is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by ordinary people. Some small town journalist seems to write off Wikipedia based solely on how it was created and maintained, and not at all on the actual [...]
Archive | August, 2004
It’s coming
I’ve written about my ideas on the future of computing before. In summary, there’ll be huge central servers, with “thin clients” about the size of a PDA, interfacing with them. Well, Andrew Carton, via Emergic writes Imagine this scenario: 1. A 17″ Bluetooth+WiFi enabled LCD monitor (or any other monitor) 2. A Bluetooth Keyboard & [...]
BBC and Smartphones
The interesting thing about this BBC article on Smartphones is not that they’re going to grow by 50% in the next 5 years. It’s that they’re already mainstream enough for the BBC to be writing about them. Actually, I think the analysts are completely wrong in their forecast. It’s going to be 50.7563% growth. I’m [...]
Blogspam – A Rant
Hurray! No more Blogspam. With our change to the new server (well done Torsten and the Creative Weblogging team) we have a few funky blogging features too. One of these is if you’d like to leave a comment here (and please, please do!) you have to authenticate it by entering a number you’ll see on [...]
Bluetooth Guide
According to Engadget JonÌs Guides has put together a pretty exhaustive guide on how to make your PC play nice with pretty much any Bluetooth device you might happen to own (and it seems like heÌs tested them all). It covers everything from setup to security and even has an advanced section for those who [...]
Mobile Couponing
Engadget reports on another entrant into the mobile couponing space – Vivotech. TheyÌre working on using kiosks at the storeÌs entrance (which probably no one will stop at) to send ads, sales and specials to cellphones and PDAs via Bluetooth or IR. Firstly, I’m not as sceptical that consumers won’t stop. In the UK, Sainsbury [...]
Bring your own iPod
Blogcritics’ Eric Olsen reports iPod-DJ is a funky new London party concept where you bring your iPod and upload your own fab sounds. The concept’s pretty simple, really – it’s a digital music DJ club, people show up, sign in and get 15-minutes to play their favourite songs, people can also sign up to be [...]
Kodak Goes Mobile
Moco News reports that the Grand Daddy of photography, Kodak has announced that it will offer a premium-content sport images service that will be able to be downloaded and saved as wallpaper on to mobile phones, in UK. The French photo agency AFP will regularly supply the library with pictures from international competitions in a [...]
Fashion Victim
Via Engadget we have this rather err….silly? scary? contrived? conversation piece – I mean, fashion statement. Inspired by Anthony Dunne and Fiona RabyÌs Design Noir, the victims behind Fashion Victims wanted to create clothes and accessories that dealt with the interactions between all the electromagnetic radiation of our gadgets and the ÏrealÓ world. Notice how [...]
Virtual Keyboard
We’ve looked at these before, but they’re 1. Totally cool 2. Now in the UK and 3. Have the potential to revolutionise (sorry about the r-word, but I do try not to over-use it) the way we use mobiles and fiddly PDA’s. Textually reports via Gizmo (not to be confused with Gizmodo) The cigarette-lighter-sized VKB [...]
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