.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Skimming Block, originally uploaded by superlocal. I love the Far East. I love the way they just get on and make stuff and then make more stuff to solve the problems of the initial [...]
Category Archives: software
Sketching revenue generation for distributed media View Comments
Not the snappiest of titles and this isn’t the most lucid of posts, it’s more a half-baked brain dump. Never-mind. So, of late I’ve been trying to articulate what the new media landscape looks like and how it ‘works’, to a largely lay audience. It’s hard to convey complex things simply which is perhaps why [...]
Categories: research,socialsoftware,society,software
Documentary me View Comments
Timesnapper reminds me of the Paul Auster script ‘Smoke‘ where this storekeeper goes outside his store everyday of the year at exactly 12 noon to take a photograph of his store front. The value comes through the existence of these images over time: each individual image is worthless. And that’s obviously the value of Timesnapper. [...]
Categories: software
Ebuild: building on the foundations for ecommerce View Comments
The benefits of XML for me were in database [dynamic] driven content. I never took an interest in ecommerce applications. Until now. I recently came across some press releases from BASDA [the British Application Software Developers Association] which stated that a new XML standard had been created in agreement with house-builders and suppliers. Moreover in [...]
Google takes the P.. rint with online model for offline advertising View Comments
Link: Google takes ad sales to print | CNET News.com. via Gary Stein I’ve been a bit slow on the uptake about this one and hadn’t realised the potential of Google’s move into offline activity in terms of revenue generation. As Stein says: Satellite maps are cool and all, but this is where you should [...]