In the same month both the West Sussex County Times and West Sussex county council have revamped their websites. The council have gone for the big band and changed their live site, while the local paper launched the new version as a beta site alongside the old one. Having said that, they quickly ditched the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Internet'
All change in West Sussex
September 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Tags: Design·Internet·Local Papers·WSCC
The dog that didn’t bark
July 31st, 2010 · 11 Comments · Politics, Technology
The 2010 election was billed as ‘the internet election’ , but just about every election since about 2001 has been hyped to be the internet election and one of them was. The general feeling is that 2010 wasn’t the internet election after all, which is what the Hansard Society are saying in a new report. [...]
Virtual visits
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
Microsoft Research say:
By combining 360-degree panoramic zooming with dynamically adaptive multi-perspective panoramas, Street Slide provides both an immersive and an informative experience for exploring street-side imagery and geo-located information.
Skuds translates:
It’s cool
If phrases like “adaptive multi-perspective panoramas” leave you cold then this demo of Microsoft’s answer to Google Street View is best watched with the sound [...]
Desperate Russian Housewives
June 2nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Technology
This is an interesting FoI request – about what domain names the BBC has registered to it.
Along with the long list of expected domains, like www.bbcbrasil.com, www.bbcspanish.com and www.bbctrust.org there are a few amusing ones like www.desperaterussianhousewives.co.uk and www.brightonbam.co.uk
For The Win
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Technology
Another book I recently finished is For The Win by Cory Doctorow. At nearly 500 pages it is a substantial read, but I got through it really quickly, which is usually a sign that I am enjoying it. Given my circumstances it is hardly surprising that I enjoyed a story of oppressed workers organising themselves [...]
No more Ning
April 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
Well not for free anyway, according to this report. This is really bad news for a lot of people. Ning is a great system for setting up user groups and forums, either on an open or closed basis and it is used by loads of charities, community groups and other organisations to set up their [...]
Tags: Internet
Google 3D
April 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Life, Technology
Love the 3D version of Google Street View – just need to find one of the many pairs of 3D glasses that are knocking around the house somewhere. Talking of Google, this advert popped up the other day…
My first thought was to doubt the expertise of so-called experts in Google analytics who can’t even spell [...]
Pointless, unproductive and fun
February 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Technology
If you saw a link on a website that pointed to http://5z8.info/cats-being-dropped-into-the-sea_p6d8l_hot-older-goats.mov I bet you would think twice before following it – and then decide not to. If you received an email with a link to http://5z8.info/olive-loaf-penetration.gif_u0p8z_ninjastaroutlet it would probably get stopped by your mail filters and marked as spam or potential malware. But you [...]
Facebook fail
February 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Technology
The recent Facebook redesign has not been popular. I’m quite sanguine about Facebook layout changes: I figure that if I don’t like it that is not a problem because it will change soon anyway, but a lot of people are still upset about. A few of them are even upset about a major change that [...]
Tags: Internet
Guess who
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Technology
I am currently just a little obsessed with Akinator.
I know how it is done and all that, but I’m still amazed how it still managed to get people like Harriet Harman, Carlos Santana, Daara O’Briain, Trevor Brooking, Geddy Lee, Tom Baker, Alan Sugar, Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Saville, even Andrew Collins in twenty questions.
Caught it out [...]
