The HackDay weekend
A very good, long weekend at HackDay in London – many thanks to Yahoo! and the BBC for staging the event, the Alexandra Palace staff, BT and Cisco for the facilities, and all of the people who attended...
View ArticleInteresting events this week
A couple of events in London that look good: 24 Hours of Flickr, tonight at Tate Britain Science in Virtual Worlds, tomorrow night at the Apple Store on Regent Street Technorati Tags: events, Flickr,...
View Article24 hours of Flickr in London
Ola and I went along to Tate Britain last night for the London leg of the 24 hours of Flickr tour. I’d heard about it from Upcoming, via the Flickr group, and thanks to Heather Champ reminding HackDay...
View ArticleAn excellent September Minibar
As I type this, I’m on the train on the way back from the September Minibar meetup at the Old Truman Brewery in Corbet Place. Very cool to get along to a Minibar meetup again after a break of a …...
View ArticleExcellent gig
This is a bit of a placeholder / early warning for a blog post I intend to write, but don’t have time for right now – I’m going to write up the gig I went to last night at the … Continue reading →
View ArticleAlex Cornish at the Troubadour
This will be a first, I’ve not written a gig review before… bear with me… Background Somewhere around late summer last year I started listening to the Song by Toad podcast (aka the Toadcast). It’s a...
View ArticleSOA in Vegas, Lotus in London
SOA / WebSphere at IMPACT IBM’s customer SOA conference, IMPACT, is taking place in Las Vegas at the beginning of April. IMPACT is the evolution of the annual WebSphere events… actually my first trip...
View ArticlePhotos I’m particularly happy with
Taken whilst in London for the Thames Festival a couple of weeks ago.
View ArticleAt Homecamp
I’m at Homecamp at Imperial College in London today – learning about home automation and energy monitoring. There’s an amazing group of people here. Follow the Twitter stream or watch it on uStream.
View ArticleThe inaugural HomeCamp
As I previously mentioned, on Saturday I went along to HomeCamp 08 in London, organised by Chris Dalby and Dale Lane, and sponsored by Current Cost and Redmonk. I was pretty actively commenting from...
View ArticleAlex Cornish with a string section
I went to a quite lovely gig last night – it was the third time I’ve seen my friend Alex Cornish playing live, but the first time I’ve seen him play with a string section, and in a church! The …...
View ArticleNext speaking engagement – SOMESSO London
Thanks to Luis Suarez who made some key introductions, I’ve been asked to speak at the SOMESSO social media conference in London on May 15th. I’m in some lofty company with guys I hugely respect like...
View ArticleHome Camp mark 2
The second Home Camp event takes place in London tomorrow. I won’t repeat all of the details here, as they are covered over on the Home Camp blog. We have some wonderful sponsors – CurrentCost,...
View ArticleOpenness and Innovation in a Web 2.0 world
Today I have been speaking at the SOMESSO conference in London. I inherited the topic from my friend Luis Suarez… it was billed as “Knowledge management: Security, Intellectual Property and Privacy”...
View ArticleSOMESSO summary
The nice folks from AudioBoo caught me for a quick interview after my presentation yesterday and you can hear the short summary of what I talked about on their site, or by playing the embedded audio...
View ArticleSome audio from SOMESSO
Couple of things: I added a c. 20 min audio commentary to my deck on Slideshare – hopefully it will make the slides a bit more meaningful! Here’s a snippet from Susan Kish’s summary of the day, where...
View ArticleSo… #borisbikes. The future?
On Tuesday night I travelled up from Farnborough to a London Java Community event at Skills Matter, which is a fantastic space for the London / Open Source / tech community. My friends and colleagues...
View ArticleCommunity, telephony, and prototypes: Make-a-thon
Warning: long post! the first in a series covering some of the events I’ve attended or been involved with lately. Background At January’s London Internet of Things meetup, I had the privilege to hear...
View ArticleInterview with Uhuru, and more events in the pipeline
As my new role continues, a podcast I recorded with Michael Surkan over at Uhuru Software has just gone online. Uhuru provide hosting based on the Cloud Foundry platform, and add first-class support...
View ArticleGeekery in 8-bits and more
In which I get misty-eyed and nostalgic, geek out over electronics, and think about mobile and the cloud. Then On Saturday I went along to the Horizons 30th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum event,...
View ArticleSushi, code, and craft
On the recommendation of my friend and colleague Alexis Richardson, last night I went along to the ICA in London to watch a documentary. Not at all my usual fare of sci-fi, action or comedy, but Alexis...
View ArticleBusy times, but let’s talk Cloud Foundry!
Users of the existing beta Cloud Foundry hosted service cloudfoundry.com were sent emails this week explaining that we are almost ready to launch version 2 of the service. If you’re a current user, or...
View ArticleKeeping the faith in Shoreditch Village Hall!
Last month, my friends at Shoreditch Works (a pair of amazing co-working spaces in the Silicon Roundabout area) ran a Kickstarter campaign to support their goal of repurposing an empty warehouse...
View ArticleEmbracing my inner geek and fandom: Nine Worlds
In February, I backed a Kickstarter campaign for a new conference event called Nine Worlds Geekfest – an event which promised to be a first-of-its-kind mixed genre gathering of geeks, sci-fi fans,...
View ArticleUpcoming speaking gigs
Fresh from a quick presentation and supporting Hackference this past weekend (more on that soon), I’ve turned my attention to the next couple of months of travel and events. There’s a lot of stuff...
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