Technology

I had the pleasure of heading over to Area 15 in NoDa on Oct 17th for the second edition of BarCamp Charlotte. BarCamp is a user-generated conference, which encourages attendees to pitch for their chance to present a session on a topic of their choice. “The name ‘BarCamp’ is a playful allusion to the event’s ...

Following Dusted’s appointment back in April, the new website for CEME – the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence – recently launched with a dual presence covering two distinct sectors – the corporate and education audience and the conferencing and events market. The work consisted of a design and an online branding exercise for the ...

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. We were to have talks on ...

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 ...

Sam here at Dusted asked me “What Blogs do I read?”. I said, “Where do I start‽” Strictly speaking I visit very few Blogs, but I do subscribe to several Blog RSS feeds. So for Sam’s enjoyment, and hopefully yours, here is my list. Design A List Apart | RSS Boagworld | RSS Brand New ...

Only recently did I joined the creative commons iPhone users and ever since I have enjoyed the rich discussions and ideas of useful software which users can benefit from. Having a hand-help computer at your disposal sometimes empower the user to be able to manage their social/work events better. I can’t wait to see the ...

I recently attended a tribute to Karen Spärck Jones at The Royal Society of Medicine hosted by the British Computer Society. It was breath taking to listen to Dr Ann Copestake a Reader in Computational Linguistics in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Her lecture on tackling some of the issues relating semantic representation and ...

The sky is the limit when it comes to creating electronic devices for entertainment purposes, specially for the conventionally called ‘geeks’. For better or for worse, some of them can be really catchy and appeal to the greater public, be it die-hard techies or young and well-off curious.