technology – Hyphall

Hyperlocal telepresent information streams

I just watched http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html in a bid to get my latest Ted fix, and am very excited by the potential that this technology represents, especially when combined with crowdsourcing. What if people start offering their phones anonymously for specific requests? What if you could visualise the swarm of mobiles available at any given time, at […]

Talk to Me Bubbles update

What started as a laptop experiment, is proving to be a great technology for events. Please use the hashtag #lbubbles to add your own stories to the talk to me bubbles experiences. Talk to me bubbles have now been successfully tested at several conferences and business events including: Deutsche Telecoms Innovation Day – Will men […]

Laptop Bubbles

Based on a previous conversation with Peter Bihr and being in a space for 6 weeks where I can do pretty much anything . I decided to play with some basic technology for a change. The supposition is simple. Express what you want to talk about on your laptop. Grant permission for people to talk […]

Permissive Conversation Spaces

Is it possible to create zones and areas in public, where we feel comfortable talking to strangers? Post BarCamp Sheffield 2.1 I was mulling over the impact of the event and some of the technologies we implemented. On analysis I realised that a lot of the success of the event arose from the fantastic conversations […]

Open Calendar Systems: Sharing time

Open calendar systems, seem to me to be a massively underexploited gap in the Web 2.0 marketplace. I have yet to find anything that is remotely good enough, and that fully exploits the opportunities that shared time presents. Sharing time based information creates numerous opportunities and an open calendar with an intuitive UI represents an […]

The Ideas Diary – How YouTube can turn a profit

Photo Credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwaszewski/ Further to my previous post on Augmented Content, i’d like to follow with an example. The example in question, could remove some of the many issues of media rights that we presently face, if the right profits share systems can be created. Augmented Broadcasting Imagine your watching a film and you see […]

Jay’s Lexicon – Augmented Content

There’s been a lot of talk of content, and user generated content, but strangely the phrase augmented content I find greatly overlooked. Especially as the process of content augmentation is one which we appear to be constantly engaged in, albiet at the moment in a limited form. Augmenting tweets by linking to urls and blogs, […]

Response – will the internet kill think tanks?

First off why am I writing this on my own blog rather than on the Guardians comment pages? Because they’ve closed comments. Why? I can only presume it’s because they had too many responses, or that they think that the internet is like a newspaper and that after a few days nobody will read the […]

Organisations and Social Media – Stage 1. The buy in

To start introducing social media into any large organisation, one must first recognise the obvious – Social media is social. It can only be as successfull as the number of people using in, and social forces will come into play. What do I mean by social forces? I mean your dealing with people, each will […]