I just stumbled across a great initiative from the UK Cabinet Office. The ‘Show us a better way’ site asks the world at large how it could best mashup the vast data sets the UK government has at it’s disposal to provide useful services. To support this the Power of Information Taskforce have released some […]
Monthly archives: July 2008
DeepPhoto
Liveside have just posted about a cool new technology MS is building called DeepPhoto. It looks like a mashup of tools like Virtual Earth and PhotoSynth and allows photo’s to be mapped against the geometric data being built up by the virtual earth team. With all of this information combined you can do some pretty […]
Bye-bye Windows?
Having just been thinking about what a next generation Microsoft OS might be like, I do wonder if they would keep the Windows name. It’s served MS well for decades, but it brings with it a heap of baggage. A shiny new name would help give the platform the fresh start it might need. (What […]
Microsoft Midori Speculation
There’s been quite a lot of talk over the past few days about an project MS is running called Midori that may, or may not, be the makings of a new legacy free OS. The prospect of an entirely new OS is quite an exciting one, the world has moved a long way since the […]
HTC Touch Diamond – First thoughts
Yesterday I got a HTC Touch Diamond to play with for a few days. I’ve been wanting to see one in the flesh for a while, partly because I need a new phone, and partly because we’re a Windows Mobile house here and with the 3G iPhone looming we’re thinking hard about future direction. The […]