tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72246221675056490542011-04-22T03:28:21.677+01:00I am a product person working for a spatial technology company. If you are looking for a techie blog go elsewhere - we are all down to earth here! The musings below are my views and not that of my employer.Bishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12790957813908236490noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7224622167505649054.post-91349859379948572812008-10-24T21:42:00.007+01:002008-10-25T15:05:01.541+01:00

Music is a one form of media that is very important to me, forget TV, the internet, books, magazines etc. music for a long time has been a living breathing hobby. Up until recently I have been using minidiscs almost exclusively for my home music collection (I have over 500 - picture later). Minidisc for a number of reasons, mainly as a legacy to my youth, producing mixes and trading discs, but

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Talking about metadata recently with a customer and showing off our new bit of kit - Stratus Gallery. The chap I was talking to made a suggestion that users would want to comment on the metadata records.Comments that may include items such as:Subjective rating 1-10Previous Projects the data has been used forReferences to other data that may be useful.I also notice that IBM have just launched a

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There are people far more qualified and experienced than me in GIS, Web, Technology, Academia and dare I say business at this years AGI Conference. I went with a slightly tongue in cheek approach and I hoped to put some fun into the proceedings. I also strongly believe that the people I was speaking to understand Geo better than I do and wanted to show them a different angle on technology, rather

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What have I discovered on the Icebreaker?I work in a dynamic industry and many of my ex-colleagues have infiltrated far and wideThe Average age of an icebreakers attendee is 40+I'm not very good at location based quizzes.I should not stay out and booze too late this evening.Marketing and presence is noticed.Should be a good day today - lots of interesting speakers and topics.CheersBish

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This little bugger caused me a lot of hassle this week.Rather embarrassingly I lost a single document that prevented me from traveling to Sweden. I was quite impressed with the 4 hour turnaround service, but not so impressed with the price tag (still £10.10 a year for 10 years isn't so bad). Still my own stupid fault, should try and look after this one. Also amazing how fast news travels as the

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(yeah I know there are others...)Nice:SpeedOmnibarApplication Mode (which means corporate web applications can now be nicely locked down - may interest a few ICT departments)Not so nice:No Plugins (Yet)Menu all the way on the rightNot on Linux (Yet)Fears of google data gathering (TBD)Will we one day see everything running in browsers regardless of OS. Linux may rule on servers and web

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I'm a newcomer to document management, but this new site raised my eyebrows. However I thought online magazine content was just not going to be a workable thing until I saw this site. http://www.mygazines.com/ You do need to sign up to read the magazines, for a web system the interface is sweet! I'm not sure how long this will stay live due to property rights lawsuits - we shall see.The UI is

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I just love screencasts to demonstrate technology. I truly believe they allow for a rich representation of what products and technology can offer end users. They can be pretty funky at times and can really add an extra dimensions to traditional web content. I've experimented with a couple for one of the products I work with and so far I've seen people at all levels mesmerised by them. There is

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I travel into London less these days. I've become slightly spoilt by being able to drive into the EMEA headquarters. Despite taking around an hour to do 18 miles its still quite pleasant to be cocooned in the car with a radio and a seat!Despite having traveled every day for 3 years into central London from the suburbs I'm now very impatient with the number of people. This morning at Waterloo,

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Interesting gmaps development I hadn't spotted until this evening - public transportation by TFL integrated into google maps. My gf asked me for how to get to Bishopsgate for a meeting in the morning, I hit GMaps and suggested walking from Bank - low and behold a click on the map and it looks like tfl are on the GMap waggon:It wasn't that much use to me there or then, but perhaps it may be one

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Welcome to MappinBytes.I thought I would jump on the band wagon and start one of these blog things. We'll see how it goes. I guess I need to slap a disclaimer all over the place to stop me getting fired, not sure how just how much that would hold up in court... I'm not certain on just how much I should mix personal content with work rambling, is there an article on blog policy (its not in my HR

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