There’s a rather nice house listed for sale in London at the moment. Most of the rooms are nicely furnished and I’m sure that it would be fantastic for most families. However the house’s attic is where the geek in me got very excited: The entire attic has been converted into a space ship! […]
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Google Glass Could be the Ultimate Sex Toy
There’s a scene in an episode of Black Mirror, where a couple is having sex. In that fictional society, most people have an implant, called a ‘grain’, which records their every waking moment, and can replay any experience for the user, privately, ‘in their mind’s eye’. It turns out that, while making love, both partners […]
Racism & Stupidity – How Not to Do Corporate PR
Justine Sacco used to be the Corporate Communications Director for IAC – the company that owns web content companies such as College Humor, About.com, Match.com, Dictionary.com and The Daily Beast. Now she’s a textbook case study for how to offend millions and destroy your career in a single day. Her first mistake was to post […]
A Chat with Patrick from Notion Capital [Video]
Here’s another video from Startup Express. Patrick Norris is originally from Dublin, but is based in London where he works for Notion Capital, “an entrepreneur-backed venture capital firm focused on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service“. I spoke to him shortly before boarding the train to Web Summit. Loading the player … Related articles Trustev Closes $3 […]
Exploring The Tardis Via Google Maps
Some of the “easter eggs” that you can find embedded in Google products are fun and oh so very geeky. Today’s find (thanks Rick) is the Tardis. Here’s a quick screen grab of what you can see, in case they disable it.. Enjoy 🙂
Interpol Confirm Assange Still On Wanted List
Over the last few days Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange has been in the news again. Assange has been hiding out in the Ecuador Embassy in London and that country finally granted him asylum yesterday. The UK and Swedish governments are not too happy about Assange’s new status (understatement!) Interpol have also confirmed that Assange is […]
Olympics and Social
The London 2012 Olympics were tracked, tweeted, “liked” and shared via multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube and many more. The guys over at SEO.com put together a pretty interesting infographic Related articles London 2012 Olympics: social media by the numbers (thesportsbank.net) Summer Games Social Stats – The ‘Olympic-Sized Consumption’ Infographic Predicts […]