Ever since my MacBook Pro was upgraded to Mac Office 2008 I'd had appallingly slow app start up times, with hangs and delays of over 3 minutes being pretty much the order of the day.
After some determined surfing this I've managed to dramatically improve my startup times to around 15 seconds by applying a combination of hints and tips.
With the standard disclaimers of YMMV, here be dragons and so on ...
I'm taking a trip to Barcelona between May 6th and May 9th to meet with the team from Yahoo! Research.
I'm taking a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon between September 23rd and September 24th to attend the AGI GeoCommunity '09 conference on Realising the Value of Place.
I'm taking a trip to Amsterdam between July 10th and July 12th to attend State of the Map 2009.
I'm taking a trip to Sunnyvale between May 17th and May 30th to attend Where 2.0 in San Jose and catch up with all my colleagues at the Yahoo! mothership on First Avenue.
Twitter can expand your horizons or just make wasting time a pleasure; here's a good example thanks to @SianySianySiany - the Album Cover meme.
It's devastingly simple. Here's how it works:
First you need a name for your band or group. Fire up Wikipedia, click on "Random article" or on this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The title of the random article is your band name.
Next you'll need a name for your band's breakthrough album. Go to QuotationsPage.com, click on "Random Quotes" or on this link: https://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four or five words of the last quote on the page are your album's title.
A product launch from Google is accompanied by a massive media campaign that reaches far beyond the techy demographic; Google is a consumer brand these days and their messaging generates headlines in both traditional and new media. This is a good thing; right?
It's certainly high profile messaging, Ted Dziuba writing in the UK based Register with less than his usual profanity laden prose, first brought the term Googasm to my attention and the recent launch of Google Latitude certainly has all the hallmarks of Googasm, but this has rapidly turned into an inverse Googasm of shrill, rhetoric laden, fin de siecle doom with the BBC commencing and London's Metro newspaper going way overboard.
With the Yahoo! Geo Technologies sponsored, London #geomob meetup coming up this week, this weekend I took a look at how many companies were actively using location within London. No easy task. After much web searching this weekend I took a trawl through those companies tagged as being in London in CrunchBase, the database of tech companies that TechCrunch operates.
Not strictly scientific but then again this is more about gauging a trend than being strictly empirical.
Hot on the heels of last week’s Fire Eagle presentation I was granted the privilege of an interview by Nestoria’s Ed Freyfogle; the interview is now up on Nestoria’s blog.
Last night I presented a deck on Fire Eagle at the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup, held at Google’s UK headquarters in Victoria; the full write up is here.
