Gary Vaynerchuk (Director of Operations at Wine Library) presented a high energy, passionate and fun keynote on ‘Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape’ at the Web 2.0 Expo New York last month. Highlights: “There is no reason in 2008 to do shit you hate. You can lose just as much money being happy […]
Category Archives: tech
A tale of two ISPs (and two social networks)
I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the speed, reliability, cost and (worst of all) usage limits on my ADSL service from PlusNet. Last night, following up on some new from a friend about O2, I asked Twitter whether I was mad to be considering switching to O2. With 1000+ Twitter followers (how did that happen?) it’s […]
Playful
Playful is a one-day conference about games, happening on Friday the 31st of October, 2008 in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. Add it to Upcoming or Facebook or, you know, just register. Focusing on the creative and cultural dimensions, Playful examines game design as both a discipline and craft, offering different perspectives on its […]
We could be guitar heroes
Before I went on holiday, I began to think about getting my Rock Band guitar controller to act as a MIDI instrument in GarageBand. I’m still fiddling with it, and since implementing a couple of extra features, I’m increasingly happy with the results. The setup in ControllerMate, initially quite straightforward, is gradually becoming fairly hairy. […]
Rocking Outside the Xbox
My lovely friends at IBM bought me a lovely leaving present: a copy of Rock Band for the Xbox 360. I’ve been enjoying it greatly, and have been working my way through a solo guitar career as well as in band mode with my wife (our band is called Good Girl OK after the praise/release […]
Open Tech 2008
Photo of Kim Plowright speaking at Open Tech 2008 shared by O’Reilly GMT. I went to Open Tech 2008 on Saturday. Open Tech describes itself as an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at [‘at which […]
Current Cost presentation at Open Tech 2008
Here’s the presentation Nick and I gave at Open Tech 2008 yesterday. | View with comments at SlideShare I really enjoyed the whole event and will try to put up some notes up about it tomorrow.
Brief thoughts on virtual worlds
My boss’s boss Luba recently asked me to put together a short video for an internal conference on the future of applications. I didn’t have long, so I wandered around Hursley with my camera and my laptop for an afternoon, thinking out loud about the near future for virtual worlds. For anyone following virtual worlds, […]
She Went Of Her Own Accord (.com)
In case you missed it, the super secret new side-project has finally gone live. Nick and I have wanted to do this for a few years. I registered the domain recently and we quietly hacked an instance of WordPress in our spare time last week to get something usable in place. Today, shewentofherownaccord.com is a […]
Speaking at Open Tech 2008
Open Tech 2008 is an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at. The Schedule includes the very lovely Kim Plowright talking about art history with Matt Webb, which will be worth the price of admission on […]