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Barcelona

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Bryan and I are heading to the Mobile 2.0 Europe conference on Thursday. Looking forward to a great event and the opportunity to meet up with assorted friends. Many thanks to Rudy for the last minute invites!
Anyone fancy meeting up for dinner on Thursday night?

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Tags: News · Yiibu

Spam, spam, spam

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

Very grumpy today.
Seems my blog’s been hacked and i’m now dispensing links to pharmaceuticals. Had beter things to do this week than try to sort this out.
Hope to be back soon with comments on the Future of Mobile and Mobile Youth Workout.

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Tags: Yiibu

Kids, Technology, Brands…(Part 3 - Marc Presky on Why kids are no longer ‘little us’s)

October 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Preface: I watched three great presentations about kids over the past few weeks. The first at Fjord’s MobileCamp London; was mobile focused. The second, at Brandlicensing Expo 2007 was about preschoolers and their relationships with branded/licensed toys. The third was Marc Presky’s plenary presentation at Handheld Learning 2007 on kids, technology and learning.
All three [...]

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Tags: Learning · Mobile Learning · Mobility · Yiibu

Brighton, London, conferences etc.

September 21st, 2007 · Comments Off

We’re moving on again (on Monday…yikes…) Bryan has been offered a full-time position working with Future Platforms in Brighton. I will be taking a month or so off to sort out what i’m doing next (definetely something mobile…) and in the meantime; I already have a very full schedule.

September 29-30: Mobile BarCamp at Fjord [...]

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Tags: Flash Lite · News · Yiibu · Youth

My Cocoon

August 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off

The nice folks at O2 have sent me a Cocoon to play with. My thoughts so far…
Things I like:

The form factor of the handset itself is quite nice. It’s got a nice weight to it and placing the music controls (pause, forward, volume jog-dial) on the outside are a nice touch. I’ve never really [...]

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Microlearning 2007

June 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

Wow–already June.
I’ve been invited (thanks Martin) to sit on a panel at this year’s Microlearning conference. I’ll be chatting with Ajit Jaokar and Roger Fischer. Ajit’s keynote is entitled “The future of mobile data and Mobile Web 2.0 and the impact on information and learning”. Should be an interesting discussion!
Microlearning 2007 is taking place June [...]

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Tags: Learning · Mobile Learning · News · Yiibu

Yiibu is a BBC Innovation Labs Finalist

February 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Yeah! Yiibu has been selected as one of the Scottish participants in the annual BBC Innovation Labs.
The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of professional creative technologists, application designers, software developers and interactive media designers. We are inviting independent new media companies from across England and Scotland to pitch [...]

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Computer Says No

January 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If my blog is quiet it’s because i’m still wading through the mass of bizarre paperwork involved when one moves to Britain.
I was chuckling last week at a story on Dina’s blog about the perils of buying a flat in Mumbai where you can be refused a property if you’re not vegetarian. I don’t have [...]

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