Slow march towards digitizing Bologna Finally, Bologna city council has launched an initiative to roll out technological advances across the city – at least in theory anyway. For the local Bolognese business leaders this is a positive step for 21st century commerce, however, a laziness attitude here permeates business circles. People expect others to do [...]
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Lazy attitudes in Bologna!
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
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Future of Bologna is digital
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Images, not words will open up the city of Bologna. Google Goggles is basically a search engine that uses images instead of words and one that Google is pushing with gusto, albeit in a sort of experimental way. A recent article and video online via the BBC, demonstrates how we will soon be looking up [...]
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Images, not words will open up the city of Bologna. Google Goggles is basically a search engine that uses images instead of words and one that Google is pushing with gusto, albeit in a sort of experimental way. A recent article and video online via the BBC, demonstrates how we will soon be looking up [...]
Good PR for Cities
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
If social media is good for ‘Protesting’, why not for a city? Considering the Arab Spring made good use of social media, now it appears that the infectious use of Twitter and Facebook et al is heading north into the colder climes of Russia. International – and some national figures – are commenting that this [...]
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If social media is good for ‘Protesting’, why not for a city? Considering the Arab Spring made good use of social media, now it appears that the infectious use of Twitter and Facebook et al is heading north into the colder climes of Russia. International – and some national figures – are commenting that this [...]
Art up close & personal
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Game changer with Google Art Project It was an employee called Amit Sood, who eventually convinced Google to utilize their streetwise camera technology to begin ‘mapping’ inside museums, hence the name Google Art Project. The results – considering what Google have done for street maps – are just as outstanding, although why it took them [...]
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Game changer with Google Art Project It was an employee called Amit Sood, who eventually convinced Google to utilize their streetwise camera technology to begin ‘mapping’ inside museums, hence the name Google Art Project. The results – considering what Google have done for street maps – are just as outstanding, although why it took them [...]
The next big thing: NFC
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Could QR codes already be history? Nokia has apparently been working on Near Field Communication (NFC) for sometime now, however, with the introduction of their Nexus running on Android, they have really illustrated the true power and future potential of this nifty piece of technology. Seen here, on a promotional video, two people bring their [...]
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Could QR codes already be history? Nokia has apparently been working on Near Field Communication (NFC) for sometime now, however, with the introduction of their Nexus running on Android, they have really illustrated the true power and future potential of this nifty piece of technology. Seen here, on a promotional video, two people bring their [...]
Videos on tablets sky rocket
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Official stats prove video is King on tablets According to a TC article, Ooyala, online video content being watched on: “…tablets are seeing a significantly higher level of engagement in online video viewing, as tablet viewers watch longer than viewers of desktops or mobile devices.” Considering the technological steps that have brought us down to [...]
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Official stats prove video is King on tablets According to a TC article, Ooyala, online video content being watched on: “…tablets are seeing a significantly higher level of engagement in online video viewing, as tablet viewers watch longer than viewers of desktops or mobile devices.” Considering the technological steps that have brought us down to [...]
Google goes indoors
Monday, October 31st, 2011
The last frontier for Google maps has now been crossed. It was only a matter of time before they finally announced what was their next obvious step in their mapping technology concept: going indoors. Privacy concerns aside – because, nearly everyone has the capability to take photos of inside buildings now and publish them on [...]
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The last frontier for Google maps has now been crossed. It was only a matter of time before they finally announced what was their next obvious step in their mapping technology concept: going indoors. Privacy concerns aside – because, nearly everyone has the capability to take photos of inside buildings now and publish them on [...]
Virtual museum tours – for 21st century
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Virtual museum tours are hardly new yet, they still lack that real sense of being there – obviously. Virtual Worlds, on the other hand, are really beginning to entice people from the real world to do business online. In an article by the BBC ‘The Rise of virtual conference’, it’s a wake up call for [...]
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Virtual museum tours are hardly new yet, they still lack that real sense of being there – obviously. Virtual Worlds, on the other hand, are really beginning to entice people from the real world to do business online. In an article by the BBC ‘The Rise of virtual conference’, it’s a wake up call for [...]
Open Geo-database of places for all
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Finally, it has been suggested (in TC tonight), that an open database of places should now be everyone’s priority. Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook et al are all chasing after the exact same thing and thus as TC reported are bound to start replicating the same information sooner or later. It’s madness therefore to continue on [...]
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Finally, it has been suggested (in TC tonight), that an open database of places should now be everyone’s priority. Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook et al are all chasing after the exact same thing and thus as TC reported are bound to start replicating the same information sooner or later. It’s madness therefore to continue on [...]