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I’m currently at WhereCampEU.  Here are the slides from my presentation on Social Networking…
Wherecamp EU – Social Networks
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Do you love Java and have experience with the Spring Framework? Do you have a passion for software design?  Do you want to work for an exciting Swiss based company (Axon Active) doing some cool stuff with transaction data, risk data, geospatial technologies and social networks?  If so please drop me a line (via my [...]

I have talked about embedded maps before, but Map Channels have released a new tool, Switch Maps, which allows you to easily embed a maps in a web page.  But the cool thing is that you can select from your map provider of choice (Google, Bing, Open Street Map, Yahoo, etc).
So for example here is [...]

This snowy image of the UK on 7th January looks amazing:

Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response.  From BBC News
And I love this little story:
Plymouth Ski Centre at Marsh Mills was forced to close on Wednesday due to the icy conditions.
(from bbc news)
What?!

So there are all kinds of rumours flying around today about apple’s immenent release of a tablet type device.
From the geo perspective there is some interesting speculation (initially based on trademarks) on the Vector 1 blog and Geek.com about a new apple mapping application (or platform) coming with it.  Do we have another disruptive mapping technology [...]

The Guardian reports:

The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April…..Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint event in London today…In the new year Brown intends to publish 2,000 sets of data…

Is this too good to be true???  We will have to wait until April to [...]

Here are the slides I presented.  They are all pictures, so you need to use your imagination!
Where2now – AGI North

Taken here.

I really enjoyed the BBC radio programme Archive on 4 – In the Beginning Was the Nerd by Stephen Fry. It is great retrospective in the ridiculousness of the Y2K panic ten years ago and a broader reflection on society’s relationship with and attitudes to computing in the C20. I was working in Local Government [...]

So I have started to use Prezi.com (a ‘cloud’ based presentation tool) as I have been interested in any alternative to slide based presenting. The real test was my presentation at AGI Geocommunity. So far it has been well received by audiences and I am enjoying the ’single canvas’ format.  
An introduction video is here.
My thoughts [...]