Just had a reminder e-mail from Christian that the next Minibar is coming up, this time with a focus on geolocation and mapping services.
This fits in with my interest in services like Plazes and Dopplr, geotagging, and cool gadgets. I’ll definitely be making an effort to make it.
Dale should probably come along, too 
Tagged Interest, London, Technology
I’ve been quiet and I’ve been on the road (although like many people, I’m twittering wildly).
Thanks to Roo, I’m now also starting to play with Dopplr. It’s a remarkably simple idea – mark the dates when you’ll be in a particular place and work out when contacts might be in that same location. In true Web 2.0 style it has the usual feeds, tagging, Google Maps mashup, etc.. Looks very useful. The information is limited to you and the group of trusted other travellers, and it is invite-only (and I’m currently out of invites), but I think this “trusted circle” idea is probably a sound one. Looking forward to seeing how the service develops.
[1] aka “webspherepalooza”… that is, if you are Kelly…
Flicking through my feeds this morning, I noticed that Suw Charman is pimping next week’s Open Rights Group party in London (here’s the event entry for the upcoming-inclined). The group had a brief slot at the last Minibar. I would have been interested to go along to this meetup, but sadly my work schedule will have me 250 miles away at the time.
Anyway, if you are around London and fancy learning more about ORG, it sounds like a worthwhile gig. Hope it goes off well.
Technorati tags: Open Rights Group, ORG, Suw Charman, London, events
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Two observations about my recent blogging habits. Firstly, I’m apparently blogging less than I did this time last year. Secondly, perhaps my twittering has reduced my interest in blogging.
I’m aware of the former, but I dispute the latter. I’ve been busy, attempting to think about what I blog about and when I do so, and yes, I apologise if I’ve been quieter than “normal”. I do want to get more technical again, and I’ll make an effort to do so.
In the meantime, here is a break from the norm. Stop reading now if you came for highbrow discussion of technology trends.
A fascinating and utterly frivolous fact that I learned from a Toffee Crisp wrapper the other day:
Cats will not walk on tin foil
Since making this discovery, my mind has been working overtime:
Technorati Tags: cats, facts, humor, humour, tin foil, Toffee Crisp
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After watching Ian’s twitterings and Roo’s blog postings, I’ve set myself up a tumblelog on Tumblr.
Over a year ago I tried a new service called Suprglu, which had a similar promise of aggregating feeds from different sources (Flickr, blogs etc.) into a single site. It doesn’t really call for any maintenance at all – it just sits there and pulls together my photos and posts. Unfortunately though, it has a bit of a lag on updates (usually taking a good day or so before new entries appear).
Tumblr is different, both because I can customise the way that the feeds are displayed, and because I can post snippets directly to the tumblelog itself, making it more of a flexible scrapbook. One thing I don’t know is whether I can use my normal blogging clients (ecto and Windows Live Writer) to add content. I’ve no idea how much I will use it… I already Twitter my discoveries, add them to del.icio.us, or write longer pieces on the blog. We’ll see.
Note to my detractors: I’ll get some WebSphere-related posts lined up for you shortly, to avoid further accusations of lack of interest in blogging the day job.
Andy Piper
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