Tag: london

I’ll be speaking at London Social Media Week’s Ignite

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Social Media Week this year is Feb13-17, and I’ll be involved in one or two of the events in the London wing of the event, specifically speaking at the Ignite event on Feb 15, starting around 7pm: Ignite started in Seattle about 5 years ago and is the brainchild of Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O’Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Makerbot.com. Basically, it’s a presentation style where you are asked to present about something you love for 5 minutes. 20 slides. 15 seconds each. Think Pecha Kucha. That’s all you need to know. This edition of Ignite is being

The ultimate disaster that will spoil the 2012 Olympics

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“The mobile networks are already facing a capacity crunch that, without widespread, consistent wi-fi, will leave people unable to do the most basic things such as keeping up to date with the latest travel situation and getting directions while out and about.” My FSM, an Olympic Games where people won’t be able to use Twitter or Facebook! What shall we do? Err… ask every Olympic Games organiser in history how they managed without all these gadgets and just watched people run round a cinder track? Besides, I’m pretty sure the small print in London’s contract means that people can’t Tweet/Facebook/Hurdlepile

The airport security ring for London 2012 will only benefit Coca-cola

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Of course there’s going to be airport style security at the 2012 Olympics, causing twenty minute delays to people getting into their stadium. There is no other security known to man that can screen everyone going into the Olympic Stadium to make sure that they only have Coca-cola with them, and are forced for no good reason to throw all their Pepsi-cola into a big unmarked trash can.

The geographically-accurate London Underground map

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I love stuff like this: I doubt if Beck would want to put his name to the current [Tube Map] version. If he were to start from scratch today, would he have used the same approach? There are twice as many lines, with London Overground and the DLR moving the emphasis away from the Circle line loop. Also, the map will increasingly be viewed on screen so we are not constrained by the limitations of the printed page.