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The Social Flight Sim Video

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Courtesy of the London Hacking scene’s filmic auteurs Cristiano Betta and Mel Seckington, it’s the construction and discussion around the Social Flight Simulator from last month’s Mashed event at Alexandra Palace. Thank you very much Cristiano and Mel for the video (and everyone else involved). Social Flight Sim from Cristiano Betta on Vimeo. Now, how can we get a cheque from BBC Three to do a pilot series of “Ewan’s Mad Ideas” and involved as many Web 2.0 people and different skills as possible? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[Mashed] Introducing The Social Flight Simulator

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It’s time to let you all know what I (and others) have been spending the last week or two planning for our BBC Mashed hack. There have been a few hints out on the web already, but the biggest one was in Matthew Cashmore’s [Mashed organiser on BBC Backstage] interview on NetMag: In fact a bunch of developers are building a flight simulator to bring along that they intend to fly around the world in Google Earth, making all their data available as they go. You’ll have everything you’d get from a real plane, right there inside Ally Pally! If

[Mashed] Top Ten Tips To Survive the BBC Mashed Experience

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So it’s that time of year again, when the great and the good gather to watch the pivotal episode of the Doctor Who season gather in Alexandra Palace for two days (and one night) of hacking, coding, building, geeking out, and other stuff – BBC Mashed. Yes I’m there again; no I’m not building a rocket (but Ant is); yes I am doing something (ask me tomorrow); and yes I’ll speak to you if you point a video camera at me. In the meantime though, there seems to be a lot of people attending the event who weren’t there last