For some time now at Exeter we’ve been exploring Google Apps and how it might fit into the Enterprise. Google Apps is like Google Docs, i.e. a way of storing your documents in the Cloud, but is a private area that is tied into your own domain name, in our case “exeter.ac.uk”. On the Web [...]
If you’ve not come across Google Goggles before now, it is an astonishing visual search technology. It has been available for Android phones for some time, but has just become available on the iPhone. A similar feature called ‘Amazon Remembers’ in the Amazon iPhone app allows you to have a photo you take matched to [...]
UPDATE, June 2011: Layar is now a live service, you can read more about how to get it here: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/students/life/layar/ Back in May last year I wrote a short blog post titled Augmented Reality – The Sleeping Giant?. Back then we were just starting to get a feel for the ways in which augmented reality [...]
Your worst web 2.0 nightmare. You’ve just sent that Twitter post about how much your feet smell after your 5k run to 1,265 of your business followers instead of your close personal friends and family. Ouch. Several months of cultivating social media up in smoke in an instant. Just why is it so easy to [...]
As my mind was drifting around the ether the other day, I was pondering on the meaning of creating online. As a web designer of many years now I can create things relatively easily, as I know how the building blocks of the web work and have powerful tools to help me construct (currently using [...]
If there’s one thing that’s constant about the web today, then it’s change. Not so long ago it was all about Internet Explorer versus Netscape, then IE versus Firefox, but just when you think things are settling down – and browser wars are a thing of the past – along comes mobile browsing and things [...]
In my personal life I was recently on the receiving end of a social media campaign that was commissioned by the RSPCA. Seems they’d found my food blog, The Sunday Roaster, and thought I was worth contacting in order to spread the word. It’s been a long running campaign, well over a year, but I [...]
We were lucky enough to be invited to showcase our work at the RSC (regional support centre) conference on Thursday 24th of June 2010. We met a diverse and enthusiastic collection of attendees. They were interested not only in many of the technologies we hope to bring to use at Exeter University, but they were [...]
This time last year I was nervously setting up a new desk in an unknown office, surrounded by people who I didn’t know, to start a new job with little idea exactly what I’d be doing – and so started the Web Innovation Project! At that point colleagues and I were still fine tuning exactly [...]
Back in December last year I started this new blog post about Web Science. Other things took precedence though, so it’s laid on the back burner for many months, but I always intended to come back and finish it properly – after all, Web Science may well be one of the most important new disciplines [...]