Walk Score

I like to walk or cycle if I have meetings in town and Edinburgh’s a pretty easy city to get around.
So yesterday after (walking/cycling to and from) a chat about visualization of data I took a look at some examples of mapping. I like the look of Walk Score which gives an idea [...]

Sound and Vision

Things haven’t been too recent on Recent Changes … er, recently. I was going to write something a little while ago about Slideshare launching its slidecast service – it nicely marries slide presentations with audio – and now there’s a widget to pop them into Facebook too.
But then the Coffee Morning crowd introduced me [...]

photosynth

The TED blog now has a short video of a presentation on Photosynth.
Photosynth ‘…takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space’
Incredible.