Mashup* Being Location Aware took place last Thursday at Ogilvy UK in Canary Wharf. I had the pleasure of sitting on an experienced panel of GIS experts, and spoke about my perspective on location-based services. The debate was moderated by Tony Fish and further insights and analysis were offered by Dr Daniel Arthur of International [...]

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….if this is your first time at BarCamp then you must give a presentation. No shirt. No shoes. No rules. Tyler Durden would be proud. Well actually it’s not quite that hardcore – you don’t have to give a presentation (I jest – of course you can keep your shoes on ) I’ll cut to [...]

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In December I hinted of plans for Total Hotspots to build an slick new mobile app, but couldn’t reveal any details about the platform or planned integration. Since then I’ve been busier than ever making these plans a reality with the help of some extremely talented individuals. The big news is that Rummble and Total [...]

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Today is a one of the most important days in political history. Finally the US, and the World, has a great leader in President 2.0, Barack Obama – of whom we should be truly proud. I’m confident that waving goodbye to Bush will indeed present a positive new era of change that has been resconating [...]

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Earlier today @foxnews tweeted the shock breaking news that Bill O’Reilly is gay. Shortly afterwards offensive and obscure messages were posted on 33 high profile accounts, including Facebook, Britney Spears, and President-in-waiting Obama. Twitter had been hacked. This comes at the same time as a phishing scare in which thousands of people complained about receiving [...]

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I found this presentation embedded on the Discover.io homepage. They are the people behind Mr Tweet, a service which recommends people to follow based upon your extended network. The points raised are already guiding recent developments at Total Hotspots, and should apply to all online communities. Enjoy! View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: [...]

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I recently returned from a festive break with my girlfriend’s family at their home in Gignese – a beautiful small Italian comune high up in the Piedmont region. One of the first things that we do after arriving is go for a walk around the surrounding area, which usually finishes at the local cemetery. Resting [...]

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It appears that I’ve committed a deadly blogging sin by not posting for a whole month, after starting with an average of one post per week. Hopefully my tweetings have provided the reassurance that I’m alive and well. So, what’s up? I spent some time working and playing in the United States – including my [...]

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For most readers, Twitter – the popular micro-blogging, short-messaging, fail-whaling, runaway train – needs no introduction. Twitterer Luke Razzell, aka @weakerluke, is a freelance consultant, UX architect and inventor I met a couple of years ago in Caffe Nero on Kensington High Street – I believe Luke was busy crafting a blog post about digital [...]

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This is the start of a couple of short posts that I’ve been itching to write about specific topics that interested me from FOWA London. Not suprisingly, there are a number of FOWA summaries and insights already circulating the blogosphere, including an account of two days camped out on the myspace bus with crates of [...]

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