If you have a LinkedIn account you can get a weekly update of what your contacts are up to including new profiles, pictures and requests for references. Sometimes you can correlate bursts of activity from multiple contacts in the same organisation with impending restructuring or downsizing (aka layoffs). Try it, you may be surprised. Now if someone could write an app to do this on a large scale they might have a market prediction tool. […]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
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So we finished the GeoVation Awards Programme with a cracking showcase at the wonderful RGS venue in South Ken on Tuesday evening. I got home late and had to pack to head off to for a series of meetings in another time zone first ting Wednesday so I have not had much time to gather my thoughts or write anything up. I want to write about the whole GAP, what we achieved, what we can […]
Just as everyone has been getting excited/delirious/innovative over the launch of data.gov.uk (and of course they should be chuffed) a little spanner appears in the metaphorical works. Over 2000 people signed this petition to No 10 seeking to get postcodes freed up after the Ernest Marples site was closed down and several useful services that relied upon it were forced to close. Now you might have though that after the PM himself announced in November […]
Less than a week to go to the GeoVation Awards Showcase, starting at 1pm on 26th January at the RGS in London. There will be 9 ventures pitching. Although I did not have a vote in the judges shortlist session I found most of my favourites seemed to get the judges thumbs up and I am not saying which ones didn’t. It wouldn’t be fair to mention one or two of the ventures and not […]
You may recall me mentioning the AGI Foresight Study that I have been helping to edit. We are drawing to a conclusion but before we write the final wrap we would like to gather some input from the wider community (a bit late I know but weather, holidays and technology have all conspired to delay us). So hop along to SurveyMonkey and share your wisdom with us. The survey will be included in the editorial […]
The judges have met (well virtually) – plans have been reviewed, combed, questioned and debated and finally we have a shortlist of ventures for the GeoVation Awards Showcase on 26th January. You can find the 8 shortlisted ventures here The short-listed candidates will be invited to present their plans at the GeoVation Awards Showcase, to be held at the Royal Geographical Society on 26 January. Doors open at 11:30 with a sandwich box lunch before […]
But you can repurpose an old video clip with a new humorous set of subtitles Enjoy
In the wonderful world of free you pay (yes pay) London Underground to advertise a free browser. I suppose there must be some logic here, it just bypassed me. No doubt there is some added value to getting people to click on your ad inventory in your own browser. I wonder what is hidden under the covers of Chrome. Watch out for the adverts for Maps and mobile directions Posted via web from Steven’s posterous
Back from a fantastic holiday in Egypt except …. Roaming rates in Egypt (or for that matter most places) are so extortionate that you can’t use mobile internet services. I cannot see how all of the much vaunted location based services like Rummble, Yelp etc are going to reach the travellers who most need them if the cost of using them is £6/MB! There surely can’t be a justification for the current level of data […]