Richard’s Blog, Blogging Since 1996

  • Back from Paris

    Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m back from Paris and what you can expect from me this week are a post with two or three short video clips of people exposing what they discussed at Podcamp uk as well as two or three amusing videos from the Paris Seesmic meetup.

  • Parisian moments

    Reading Time: < 1 minute There is more video to come but I need to wait for seesmic to recognise and promote the files before I link to them.

  • Twitter’s broken again

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Yes, it’s happened yet again, twitter is broken again but in an entirely new way. At first it appeared that twitter had crashed in the old way, that is to say no server response. This time is different though. We’ve got the WML website version showing. The mobile version is…

  • A lakeside stream

    Reading Time: < 1 minute With 3g and fast mobile broadband access on the horizon more and more people will be streaming their content live for those across the world to see. Of interest around Geneva in the next few days is the European cup. We may find a few more people than usual in…

  • Sports tracker and Google Earth

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Six thousand steps later and I’ve created yet another track via the Sports tracker application for the N95. What’s fun is that within a few seconds of arriving home I can bluetooth the KML file to my laptop, open it in google earth and I’ve got an arerial view of…

  • The Paris Seesmic meetup

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Next Saturday I’ll be catching the TGV to Paris to meet with a few friends from the Seesmic community. I had planned to do this for over two months but never got the opportunity due to various events. It’s fun to go to meet people who you know via online…

  • Just installed WordPress 2.5

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Today WordPress 2.5 came out and I’ve decided to try it out. The backend is quite different from the old one so you feel the difference. We’ll see what problems I’ll get during this time. Streamed earlier today in the Mountains

  • Mapping wifi availability easily

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Wifi is something that should be ubiquitous so that our digital lifestyle may not be limited to being online at home or at work. It should include, bars, restaurants and city squares. In some cities wifi is easy to find but in others that’s not the case. The lazy way…

  • A nice streaming surprise

    Reading Time: < 1 minute The month is almost over and I’ve got fourty megabytes of streaming left to play with so I’m going to take advantage of that with my mobile phone. Since cities around Switzerland are covered by 3g you may find that I’m using Qik, Bambuser and Flixwagon to stream what I’m…

  • I’m going to play with Flixwagon

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Because three or four, I’ve lost track of how many, live streaming applications for the phone aren’t enough i’ve started to play with flixwagon as well. So far it’s taking some getting used to but I hope that by tomorrow I’ll have learned more. It’s still an alpha and only…