Brilliant short video clip. I defy you not to watch it twice. Have a great weekend. I’m off skiing on Saturday – just the normal routine Russell —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
Archive | January, 2005
20 Predictions for 2005
Sorry these predictions are so late, but they took a little longer than I thought! They’re only a bit of fun really, but I’ve had a go anyway with what I think 2005 holds in store for the world of mobile, location based services and anything else I cover here on this blog. 1. P2P [...]
Pull based Sales People
The Pondering Primate has an interesting post about Circuit City in the US (via Techdirt) and the implications of one of their new marketing initiatives. It seems that when you walk into their shop, you’re handed a pair of headphones to wear. This tracks your progress round the store, giving you information about products, pricing [...]
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New Hands Free Head Sets
OK, I think I first saw this about 6 years ago, but it still made me smile again. Via Eyebeam reBlog —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Hyperlinking via Photo’s
I wrote a feature for Net Imperative last year that proposed that an important aspect of location based services will be real world hyperlinks that you “click” on with your camera phone to explore the virtual world behind it. This works in much the same way as if you click here you can read my [...]
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Mobile TV Needs a License?
The Inquirer (via Picture Phoning) has a story that the UK’s TV License Authority is intending to force people with mobile TV to purchase a license. For those of you not familiar with some of the UK’s quaint laws, owning a TV means that you must purchase a license for it. It currently costs about [...]
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American Graffiti
One of my favourite Blogs, We Make Money Not Art, has a story on Grafedia, another New York based Virtual Graffiti project, along the same lines as Yellow Arrow. It works like street-based Hyperlinks, along the lines that I wrote about on NetImperative. You write/spray your graffiti as usual, on the street, on walls or [...]
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Top 25 Innovations
CNN are currently running a feature on the Top 25 Innovations of the last 25 years, according to the Lemelson-MIT Program, which promotes inventiveness in teens. Here’s the top 10: 1. The Internet 2. Cell phone 3. Personal computers 4. Fiber optics 5. E-mail 6. Commercialized GPS 7. Portable computers 8. Memory storage discs 9. [...]
The Human Clock
Occasionally, I feature stuff that has nothing to do with mobile, but is very clever for all that. Check out the wonderfully viral Human Clock. —–>Follow us on Twitter too: @russellbuckley and @caaarlo
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Geocaching Taking Off
Geocaching is a location-based “sport” enjoyed by around 500,000 people worldwide, according the USA Today. It’s like a hybrid of orienteering and a Treasure Hunt, where players use internet clues and a handheld GPS device to uncover more clues or prizes. Though, admittedly, it’s the fun of the process than the value of the prizes [...]
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