23 month ago
plasticbag : I think it's in Swedish - an article about my thing at ETech that I don't understand in the slightest. Anyone help? - Particularly horrified by the picture, which captures my exhaustion and desire to get into trouble only partly as well as it gets my double chin and my 'raises handbags' gesture.
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plasticbag : The most detailed coverage I've seen of Fire Eagle is from Venture Beat. I talked to them a month or so before we launched. - If you're interested in Fire Eagle, I think this is the article I've read with the most substance.
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25 month ago
philgyford : Yahoo! Developer Network: Fire Eagle Launches - O'Reilly Conferences - Tom Coates launching Fire Eagle. Yay congratulations Tom (and team)! We miss you over here you know.
plasticbag : Yahoo! Developer Network has video of me doing the Fire Eagle launch on stage at ETech - Nice and short. Ten minutes. I want to do more talks that length, I think. It looks like I came across reasonably well, anyway!
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Extraordinary pixel-art map of Hong Kong that you can browse and explore just like Google/Yahoo Maps... - It's really beautiful. I've spent at least an hour roaming around it over the last few days.
nelson : Hong Kong, pixelart - Amazing map
Andy Baio : Isometric pixel map of Hong Kong - insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level [via]
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27 month ago
plasticbag : dConstruct 2007 podcasts have been posted, including my talk should you be interested. - I really need to get up the slides for it. I think the thing is that I spend so much time on my talks that I can't bear to just use them once. But if the slides are out in public already, people don't enjoy them so much. Difficult.
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30 month ago
plasticbag : I'm seriously considering getting myself some plasticbag.org branded M&Ms - They're just so totally awesome that I find it astonishing that I don't have them already. God knows what I'd do with them except give them to people at conferences...
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Just so people know, I'll be doing an overview and introduction to Fire Eagle at the Future of Web Apps Expo in London in about a month - I talked a bit about Fire Eagle at Hack Day and at dconstruct yesterday, but we should be pretty close to letting people see things a little more clearly by then.
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plasticbag : Tom Carden responds to my comments about Twitter Blocks - It seemed only fair to link to him so that people could hear his feelings about people's responses to them. Read my comment for more context.
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31 month ago
plasticbag : I have a freaky name doppelgänger in the US asking very sensible questions on YouTube - Hearing other people say, "Hello my name is Tom Coates" who aren't, you know, me... Strange.
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32 month ago
plasticbag : I'm going to be doing a talk at dconstruct that at the moment I'm calling 'Designing for a Web of Data' - It's going to be a fairly personal view on design process when you're no longer knocking out brochureware and editorial sites and are looking to be part of a web of data. Bit scared of it. Too much to do at the moment.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : The Third Annual Satin Pajama Awards is about celebrating the best in European weblogs... - It's a pretty good way to see what people are writing about and to discover some new sites, and if you want to vote for me in the 'Past his best' category, that would be fine too...
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35 month ago
plasticbag : My namesake Tom Coates Jr is busy getting into trouble for producing sculpture of women with their tops off made of wire... - The sculpture is a bit Athena 1987, but it's fun to hear about what this particular doppelgänger is up to. Other name twins are researchers in HIV and a watercolour artist.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : My search for a headshot has now become an attempt to make a decent picture the most 'interesting' one on Flickr... - Hence I'm linking to it here, hoping that the few extra page views it gets will result in it usurping that bloody thing Kottke linked to a while back. Bastard.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : The Johari window allows other people to describe you and matches that with how you describe yourself... - This is my Johari window. Choose some words that you think describe me (don't be too unpleasant, please) and it'll help me get a better sense of myself. If I take it seriously. Which I hopefully won't.
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Stop bitching. Make it better... - Something I wrote in 2003 that I still agree with. Nick Carr please take note.
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37 month ago
plasticbag : With all the conversations about social media going around at the moment I thought I'd link back to this old piece of mine from March last year... - It's not a great piece, it's a bit messy and clumsy. After a fascinating conversation the other day, I think it's important to remind ourselves that media has often been meant to mean simply a container for information. If we think of it as social storage
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plasticbag : Wired's Monkeybites weblog has all their coverage of the Yahoo! Hack Day in one place - I only really mention it because it's got a picture of me in it and I'm that vain. Although having said that, the picture does rather make it look like I have a substantial cleavage, so I don't know that I should be thrilled...
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42 month ago
plasticbag : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... - I wrote this piece to explain how you can geotag photos in the wild by connecting your Nokia mobile phone with a cheap Bluetooth GPS device. Hopefully it's clear and detailed enough without being grotesquely over the top.
Rod Begbie : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (plasticbag.org) - Good overview from Tom Coates on how to get your cellphone geotagging and uploading photos automagically. This is the process I use, and I recommend the Nokia 6682 highly. It's a decent-ish camera, and a great phone. #
Simon Willison : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS - I've been playing with this stuff for a while - it's awesome fun.
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plasticbag : Just over a week ago Techcrunch UK launched keeping track of the tremulous UK start-up scene - I hear really good things about Techcrunch UK, but haven't yet been keeping much track of it. Nice to see that I get a mention though.
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Thingtagging: Pictures of objects - A project that Mr Biddulph's been working on for fun built off the back of Thinglink.org. I did some of the colouring-in work for him in return for his immortal soul. It's pretty cool.
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47 month ago
Rod Begbie : Cybermen are Human 2.0? (plasticbag.org) - Quality silly Tom Coates post suitable for that popular cross-section of humanity: Dr Who fans who blog bitching about "Web 2.0". #
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47 month ago
plasticbag : "Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers" - There's a story in The Guardian today about the disproportionate influence held by webloggers in which I'm quoted. This may be of interest to some of you. Mum, are you out there? Check it out!
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Carson Workshops have a whole bunch of photos from the recent Future of Web Apps event up on their Flickr account - And looking at them, I'm terrified by how exhausted and fried I look in every single photo of me. It's like I've been replaced by some freakish semi-dead lych...
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Fun with LED Throwies - In which Jones buys Webb a DIY Throwies kit and we assemble them in a bar and then throw them at metal things, and they don't stick. Later Jones puts one in his mouth and I stick one up my nose (not shown)...
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49 month ago
philgyford : Yahoo open up their UI libraries... (plasticbag.org) - Links to all Yahoo's shiny developer things in one handy place for me to never get round to reading.
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