OpenStreetMap may not wield a big stick like Google but it certainly knows how to mobilise its user-base. Furthermore, if not already obvious,OpenStreetMap definitely isn’t as ‘sexy’ as Streetwise but they have probably secured their biggest round of support so far in the form of the city of Atlanta in the US. A BBC article [...]
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OpenSteetMap Vs Google StreetWise
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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Valuable art work abused for fun
Monday, October 5th, 2009
In a great article the Onion has published a story about the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York letting customers paw, scratch and poke at a selection of its very valuable and prestigious paintings. Here’s fabulous “quote”: Gerard Schmidt, a retired banker who lives near the Met, said he had never much cared for [...]
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In a great article the Onion has published a story about the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York letting customers paw, scratch and poke at a selection of its very valuable and prestigious paintings. Here’s fabulous “quote”: Gerard Schmidt, a retired banker who lives near the Met, said he had never much cared for [...]
Online video stats
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Everyone by now has a good grasp of video content online and will have at some stage been on a video web site or stumbled upon one. With this in mind here’s a few interesting stats we found on IABUK.net: 29.6 million people in the UK accessed online video in January 2009 (comScore). That’s 8 [...]
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Everyone by now has a good grasp of video content online and will have at some stage been on a video web site or stumbled upon one. With this in mind here’s a few interesting stats we found on IABUK.net: 29.6 million people in the UK accessed online video in January 2009 (comScore). That’s 8 [...]
Bologna hotels in video
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Video guides are gaining momentum in Bologna. A few people namely in the hotel industry but also bars and restaurants are beginning to take note of the extra potential that video guides represent to their individual businesses. In fact, we had a meeting with a few separate people representing various Bolognese hospitality organisations last week [...]
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Video guides are gaining momentum in Bologna. A few people namely in the hotel industry but also bars and restaurants are beginning to take note of the extra potential that video guides represent to their individual businesses. In fact, we had a meeting with a few separate people representing various Bolognese hospitality organisations last week [...]
Bologna needs internet Tzar
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Record numbers of visitors are hitting Bologna’s museums – according to Carlino Bologna. They provide the following stats on 10 popular museums such as Museo del Patrimonio Industriale = 32,730, Museo Civico Archeologico = 103,839, Collezioni Comunali D’Arte = 31,053, Museo Davia Bargellini = 6,442, Museo Medioevale = 27,462 Considering Bologna is not on every [...]
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Record numbers of visitors are hitting Bologna’s museums – according to Carlino Bologna. They provide the following stats on 10 popular museums such as Museo del Patrimonio Industriale = 32,730, Museo Civico Archeologico = 103,839, Collezioni Comunali D’Arte = 31,053, Museo Davia Bargellini = 6,442, Museo Medioevale = 27,462 Considering Bologna is not on every [...]
Thee Da Vinci Guide
Friday, September 11th, 2009
How do you spice up a good old chase around town just like in the Da Vince Code? It wasn’t that long ago that board games made it on the real-life stage ie, where people become the characters and an actual location becomes the board set. A great example of this which was played out [...]
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How do you spice up a good old chase around town just like in the Da Vince Code? It wasn’t that long ago that board games made it on the real-life stage ie, where people become the characters and an actual location becomes the board set. A great example of this which was played out [...]
Dinosaurs in Tourism Offices
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Dinosaurs – not the real ones of course but their human ancestors readily thrive in our societies, particularly in places you would never expect. Take the little visit with a respected economic advisor from ASCOM in Bologna yesterday (mention no names as I might have to go back some day!). He quite happily declared that [...]
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Dinosaurs – not the real ones of course but their human ancestors readily thrive in our societies, particularly in places you would never expect. Take the little visit with a respected economic advisor from ASCOM in Bologna yesterday (mention no names as I might have to go back some day!). He quite happily declared that [...]
Belfast pubs make digital jump.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Pubs and hostels in Belfast are making it into the digital era by being featured in our iGuidez video guides. We’ve uploaded several more places which let users now see them in a wholly new way. For example, Laverys Pub which is owned by a family in the trade for 150 years opened their doors [...]
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Pubs and hostels in Belfast are making it into the digital era by being featured in our iGuidez video guides. We’ve uploaded several more places which let users now see them in a wholly new way. For example, Laverys Pub which is owned by a family in the trade for 150 years opened their doors [...]
Radioactive tours in Chernobyl
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Not for the faint-hearted or paranoid – there’s now tours to be booked around the Chernobyl radioactive zone. Tourists, or rather, ‘visitors’ as they are being curiously referred to according to a Times article are being thrown into the deep end of where the Geiger Counter would no doubt have a field day. Sight-seers are [...]
Not for the faint-hearted or paranoid – there’s now tours to be booked around the Chernobyl radioactive zone. Tourists, or rather, ‘visitors’ as they are being curiously referred to according to a Times article are being thrown into the deep end of where the Geiger Counter would no doubt have a field day. Sight-seers are [...]
The “Spoken” Web
Friday, July 10th, 2009
An interesting article in the Economist magazine really puts into perspective how the internet can be used by illiterate users as a means to develop their own web services. Before, there was plenty of talk about how Google and others wanted to design apps to make mobiles easier to use simply with voice recognition. This [...]
An interesting article in the Economist magazine really puts into perspective how the internet can be used by illiterate users as a means to develop their own web services. Before, there was plenty of talk about how Google and others wanted to design apps to make mobiles easier to use simply with voice recognition. This [...]