Brendan Mitchell blog

Category: Tech Stuff

  • Don’t Click It, Multi-Touch It

    This morning I was sent an interesting video demonstrating a conceptual approach to a Multi-Touch GUI (Graphic User Interface). The concept has been well thought through and the video speaks for itself, so I won’t go into detail here, but they also touch upon (no pun intended), the notion of a 3D OS (Operating System).…

  • The Social Media Revolution Fad

    As I’ve re-quoted before “Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital“ Aaron Levenstein This video makes compelling reading/watching, but read between the lines, there’s more to this than meets the eye, major changes are unfolding in the social media environment, information/data/ID aggregation is becoming the new hot…

  • Wave Goodbye to Closed Networks

    Google said they’d have something interesting to demo at the Google IO Dev Conference, oh boy they weren’t kidding… Hello to Google Waves! The Video below is 1.5hrs long, but it’s worth a look, as this will change everything. I’ve been harping on for ages about data aggregation & building open platforms without walls, with…

  • All Vegans Look Away Now!

    OK, I have to ask why do this? even if you knew how to do this, why would you?  and just think of all that lovely Prosciutto… but I bet it smells amazing! [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2408155&w=280&h=230&fv=] more info http://www.graysci.com/ original post on Boing Boing

  • I Lecture, Therefore iPod

    The New Scientist posted an interesting article entitled “iTunes university’ better than the real thing” (below are snippets form the article) Dr Dani McKinney,  a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, led a study, to find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone – 64 students were…

  • ID Gator™ Calling all Beta Testers

    ID Gator™ is calling for Beta Testers, if you’re interested then drop them a line with a subject title along the lines of “I want to be a guinea pig” to betatesters@idgator.com

  • Twitter to charge commercial accounts, is this a good idea?

    Where did I hear about this first, on twitter of course! thanks to Matt Ryan In this piece in Marketing Magazine, it would appear Twitter is working out ways to monetize it’s service. Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: ‘We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make…

  • Macworld 2009: Apple Introduces The MacBook Wheel

    In a keynote presentation to end all keynote presentations, Phil Schiller replaced Steve Jobs to introduce the revolutionary MacBook Wheel. Watch the video for more information. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1939851&w=425&h=350&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Fxml%2F92328%2Fvideo%26autostart%3Dfalse%26image%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FNO_KEYBOARD_article.jpg%26bufferlength%3D3%26embedded%3Dtrue%26title%3DApple%2520Introduces%2520Revolutionary%2520New%2520Laptop%2520With%2520No%2520Keyboard] more about “Apple Introduces Revolutionary New La…“, posted with vodpod

  • Time for Facebook to Face the Facts

    Nick Burcher added a post on his blog about Facebook Usage Statistics for 2008 which made me think about something I mentioned a few weeks ago, as I noticed within Facebook’s top 21 only India & Hong Kong appear for the whole of Asia! Where’s China, Japan, Indonesia etc? Nick’s stats are interesting, but they’re…

  • How many SMS messages will be sent on New Years Eve 2008/9

    On New Years Eve 2008, an estimated 43 billion SMS messages where sent globally! Which was up 30% on 2007, but the rise wasn’t evenly spread… Portugal tripled and The Netherlands doubled. Developing nations are by far the fastest expanding mobile markets, India’s 220 million mobile subscribers sent over a billion, a 300% rise on…