October 2007 – Page 2 – Richard's blog

Bandwidth Upgrade

Oct 15, 2007

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThose stats are the current upload and download speed test results whilst watching France 24 on Zattoo. In other words I should have enough bandwidth to use operator11 without too many problems now.

Bill Palmer of Iprong 3c, twittermail3k twittter 3k+

Oct 15, 2007

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richard

in facebook, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s news is as follows. Having seen that Bill Palmer of the Iprong podcast and website would add the 300th friend on Facebook I decided I would take this opportunity to add him. His podcast is “for the ipod generation so take the time to listen to it. It’s mainly about…

Why Audiovisual Content That’s Not On-Demand is Dead to Me

Oct 14, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m online from 10-15hrs a day on average and as a result I’m used to having everything available within a short amount of time. I also had access to a PVR with a hard disk upgrade for quite a long time. As a result of both these developments anything that is not…

The Kendra Party – Networking Event and Party

Oct 13, 2007

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richard

in social networking, tech related, work

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I went to the Kendra event not knowing what to expect from the event. It started at 6pm and ended by 9pm and i had the opportunity to meet with a few people of which Brendon Kenny of VK media and the Jummp project. A large amount of metadata…

Vtap to play videos on the Iphone and Itouch

Oct 12, 2007

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richard

in ipod touch

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday whilst surfing through the webapps I found one that’s great for what I do, share video content via the web. I found Vtap, a video sharing website that allows you to search through, select and stream videos straight through to your iphone or Ipod touch without either converting it to…

The Facebook Friend Density Map

Oct 12, 2007

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richard

in facebook

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Friend density map is an interesting one. It shows you where the highest concentration of your friends is. It’s a good idea when you’ve got friends spread around the world as we do. It’s a shame it’s limited only to the US at the moment. I can only see six…

England is Top EU country for social networking

Oct 11, 2007

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richard

in facebook, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to a recent article in the Times England is top EU country for social networking with 5.6 hrs a month spent on social networking websites such as Facebook: Britons are the ‘social networking’ champions of Europe, displaying a far greater appetite for websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo than…

CCTV, Two Exhibits, one town crier and of course John Bull

Oct 10, 2007

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richard

in London, observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEngland is a CCTV nation with more cameras per capita than any other nation. As a result there is great interest from people like Christian of documentally.com and Our Man Inside and John Perivolaris. Both of them are working on CCTV related pieces. At Parliament Square Christian demonstrated his great ability…

What is a Twitterstorm

Oct 9, 2007

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richard

in social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Twitterstorm is a description of an event where hundreds of 140 character messages are sent at the same time. The most recent example of this occurrence is the one that took place when news of Jaiku being swallowed by google broke. Both Twitter and Jaiku are similar. They both give…

A MacBook, a MacBook Pro and a Remote

Oct 9, 2007

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richard

in Apple, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I was lucky enough to be asked what the remote on the new MacBook and MacBook pros were for. I went to the owner of the Macbook’s room and picked up the remote. Both my machine and hers were side by side and I started to play. I was controlling…

Month: October 2007