James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.
Archive for February, 2009
BBC Trust rejects local video proposals
The BBC Trust confirmed today that it has refused permission for a planned BBC Local Video service after concluding its public value test (PVT) into the proposals. Diane Coyle, BBC Trustee and Chairman of the Strategic Approvals Committee, said: “The Trust is committed to improving regional and local services from the BBC for licence fee [...]
Birmingham Photospace – Flash Swap Exhibtion
Gutted! I’m away when this is on but I suggest anyone in the Birmingham area on Saturday 21st March should go along and take part. Basically, take along some of your own prints to be included in the exhibition and, for every one of your own that you are willing to give away, you can [...]
Links (9th February 2009)
Share your aerial imagery with the worldGoogle invites anyway to share their own aerial imagery via Google Maps. London 2012 MapAlready getting excited about the prospect of the London Olympics? Then this map could be just what you need. Flickr reaches 100,000,000 geotagged photosWhich means that around 3.3% of the 3 billion photos on Flickr [...]
Lego Brick Stick
Isn’t this soooo cool? £17.50 for your 1GB lego stick, and four colours to choose from, green, red, yellow and blue.
Google Latitude launches
Google launched it’s own Fire Eagle today, enabling you to ‘See your friends on a map and get in touch‘. I haven’t had enough time to get properly stuck in but from first viewing the Google Latitude user experience is more map-based and the ‘sales pitch’ is much more end-user focused. Whilst all the hype [...]
