Data

08.09.09

Matt

The Future’s BrightON – dConstruct 2009

dconstruct 2009
It was the eclectic range of speakers and associated subject matters that convinced me to return to Brighton having attended dConstruct in 2007. If you didn’t know dConstruct was a conference aimed at web designers and developers you certainly wouldn’t have gleamed that from looking at this year’s schedule. Read the rest of this entry »

09.01.09

Jamie

Facebook Vs Google

The rapid rise of Facebook cannot be ignored and reminds me of the speed at which Google rose to prominence a few years ago. At face value, the offerings of both companies seem different (search engine vs social application) but they essentially comprise of many similar elements; personal user data, email, IM, advertising revenue, social applications and search functionality. Read the rest of this entry »

15.07.08

Matt

House of Cards


Radiohead’s latest video for their single House of Cards is, in true Radiohead fashion, a little bit ground-breaking. The video was recorded without light and without cameras. Instead they employed a couple of scanning technologies that mapped the scenes in 3D. They could then use the raw data to create the video using various rendering options and show the scenes from any angle they desired. Read the rest of this entry »

22.01.08

Jamie

Portable Personal Data

DataPortabilityWe are quickly becoming overwhelmed with the number of online accounts we have to open, maintain and access. Within each of these accounts, we store all sorts of personal data including photo’s, contact details, bookmarks, video and music. The privacy of our data is out of our control and the whole process has become very difficult to manage. Read the rest of this entry »