Archive for July, 2010

Geek Meets Government

Posted by Code | Category: Technology | 30/07/2010 9:20 am

If you’re aged between 15-18, scoot across to MadLab all next week for Young Rewired State, a hack week for young developers across the country to go and build visualisations, digital and/or non-digital products using government data, alongside working devs in businesses across the UK. It’s free to go, just make sure you get there [...]

Street Slide? Looks better than Google

Posted by Admin | Category: Technology | 29/07/2010 6:48 pm

Take Google Street View with its panoramic navigation, integrate the standard orthographic maps, add other interactive location specific data, such as shop names, building/house numbers or landmarks and smoothly animate in and out to a side-on navigation system for rapidly whizzing around the streets — that’s Microsoft’s new Street Slide, I think it’s pretty impressive. [...]