By now you’ll probably know I have a thing for sheds. So when this popped up in my feeds I just slipped into auto pilot to blog about it. I think (as I remember an email from a fellow Biter) it was featured in the Metro this week too. But, just in case you haven’t seen it - this is one of the finest tech sheds I’ve seen, built by Alan Cook here in England.
Cook has managed to squeeze an astonishing amount of kit into a 9ft by 6ft wooden box. Aside from the essential big-screen TV, there is a gym, an unspecified games console (probably not a Wii), a refrigerator full of beer, a coffee maker and an HD satellite box (the dish is on the roof).
This looks pretty amazing. With stuff this good on the web, who needs crap British TV? More from Scoble here (he cried when he saw this). Just one of the TED talks available now online.
Just been sent this - a trio of geeks using a couple of iPhones and a Nintendo DS to make some tunes. With nice interfaces comes nice software. Can’t wait to see what’s in the pipeline and the implications for making music on the move. Below that is a another video of the ‘iAno’ in action that surfaced a few days ago. After Electroplankton, the continued success of Guitar Hero and Rock Band and stuff like the Tenori-On and lots of other stuff in development, the future looks very exciting indeed.
This is super cool. Still very early days but it’s pretty amazing you can now stream to the world right from your mobile phone. Scoble is all over it and have a feeling that this is the absolute tip of the iceberg.
UPDATE - don’t think the embed code works, have tried a few times.
This looks really interesting. I’m right in the middle of lots of stuff right now so have only had a quick poke around. First stab at the holy grail . . . how to rate and rank people’s digital presences
“Be seen how you want to be seen
Up until now there has been no way to measure digital presence, to see where you fit in to the online world. At Garlik, we’ve analysed the digital profiles of the nation and have made available a QDOS score for every UK adult . Your QDOS score is made up of 4 different components:
Popularity
Who you know and the extent of your online network.
Impact
How much people listen to what you say online.
Activity
What you do online e.g. shop, chat, blog.
Individuality
How easy you are to find online according to your name, your age etc
Put simply, the more you are out there surfing, buying, selling and socialising online, the higher your QDOS score.
To find your QDOS simply enter your name and postcode in to the site - it’s as simple as that. Once you’ve found your QDOS you can also claim it, and from there you can tell us a little more about you that will help us refine your QDOS score and make it even more reflective of you. Your QDOS will also change over time according to what you do online. Take control of your online status with QDOS.”
Chuffed today. Using the modem script here and some instructions here, I really easily set up my MacBook to use my T Mobile MDA Vario II via bluetooth to surf the web over 3G. It’s actually quite fast and a whole lot better than last time I did it using GPRS. Bring it on.
Well it’s not that bad really is it? But, I do think this is worth reading. Found via the good people at neoco, it might be old (really not sure) but definitely still makes you think. Was 1.0 the creation of it, 2.0 the realisation and quick-fix of it and 3.0 will be the creation of something completely different? I don’t know. But I do know that the internet isn’t all that sh*t right now and in the future (say, inside 5 years), think it’s gonna do stuff we haven’t even thought of.
Amidst all the rugby fever and wax statues of JW appearing in Trafalgar square, Bite client Blinkx has created a special rugby wall which pulls in the latest commentary, pre-match interviews and random user generated rugby content. Looks great and I think that we’ll be seeing a lot more visually-led interfaces like this about town in the future.
PS - show your support on Facebook (another Bite client) today by changing your profile picture to the one below. Just grab it and upload it.
I'm a creative/digital consultant that blogs about brands, technology, cats and other things I stumble upon whilst perusing the interwebz.
And I'm also founder and director of Shed, a brand new consultancy specialising in web participation and social media for human brands and beings like BView and Green Thing.
