Ben Werdmuller

Month: July 2009

  • BarCamp Transparency posters and the cult of openness

    I designed the following poster for BarCamp Transparency, this Sunday, July 26, at the University Club on Mansfield Road, Oxford. (It starts at 10am and tickets are free; visit the website to get yours.) Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, saw it and had this to say: [..] What’s so great about […]

  • You, me, Edinburgh Techmeetup? It’s a date.

    TechMeetup is a set of monthly technology gatherings in Edinburgh and Glasgow. It feels somehow illicit: the Edinburgh meetup takes place at the top of the Appleton Tower, a famous eyesore in the middle of the Edinburgh University campus. Piles of pizza and free beer are placed on tables, and after 7pm the doors are […]

  • Geolocation in HTML 5 and Javascript

    HTML 5 – as-yet unreleased, but shaping up well – contains a specification for finding the current location of the user. The API, if your browser supports it and you grant the web application access, returns your latitude, longitude, elevation, speed and some other details. (If your web-capable device doesn’t have GPS, these details will […]

  • Microsoft Web Applications 2010 bring the cloud to the enterprise

    In advance of the announcement later today, I Started Something have uncovered videos about the new Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Office turns to the web As anticipated, Office 2010 includes web-based versions of applications contained in the suite. These don’t have the complete feature set, but are designed so that company employees can create and […]