I was just fiddling with some pictures at home and using Picasa to manage them when I found an answer referring to a Picasa Web Albums API. The official documentation is over on Google Code and it already looks like some companies are creating some pretty exciting stuff using it. Picasa has always been a… [Read more…]
June 10, 2007
Adobe Apollo moved from developer preview to beta recently, and also changed its name to Adobe AIR. This is a very, very exciting space – it gives much more flexibility for the creation of Rich Internet Apps. Rather than learning up on VB or other horriblenesses, AIR lets developers use skills they already have in… [Read more…]
June 10, 2007
Nothing whatsoever to do with museums, but this made me laugh. Genius, inspired idea: http://www.break.com/index/japanese-tetris.html
June 6, 2007
My Clash of the Networks post has got a bunch of traffic – not surprising really – underlying this is an emotive issue which all museums, and probably most technologists, struggle with. Mike Lowndes (ex NHM Website Manager) has opened up a thread in the comments which expands the “should we free our data?” question… [Read more…]
June 2, 2007
I’ve been very interested for some time in how you might go about tracking objects around a space, but I haven’t yet had a conversation with anyone in a museum who has actually done it. This could well be because it isn’t yet do-able, or more likely I just haven’t found the right people to… [Read more…]
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