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Copyright is hard. Dan Catt spots Adam Liversage (Director of Communications for the BPI, and hence right in the middle of the DEBill) suggesting his wife violate copyright on Twitter.

# 11th April 2010, 2:26 pm / dan-catt, copyright, debill, bpi

What’s hot? Introducing Zeitgeist. Dan Catt’s first project at the Guardian. “When something appears on the Zeitgeist page, it’s because it performed better (got more attention) than the norm for that content type/section/day”. The application itself is written in Python and runs on Google App Engine.

# 5th February 2010, 12:17 pm / python, appengine, dan-catt, guardian, zeitgeist

Where I’m actually living in augmented reality, Jefferson Airplane and what does this mean for photos. Rev Dan Catt takes us to the future.

# 27th October 2008, 11:53 pm / revdancatt, dan-catt, augmentedreality, rjdj, iphone

Google Earth in a browser (sort of), Scriptable, a quick peek and poke. Dan Catt on Google’s new browser plugin version of Google Earth... which conveniently exposes a JavaScript API to the browser in the form of the “ge” object, which can then be poked at interactively using Firebug.

# 28th May 2008, 11:13 pm / firebug, javascript, google-earth, dan-catt, google

The overdue Places post II—Prototyping Iconicness. How Flickr Places works.

# 25th January 2008, 4 pm / flickrplaces, flickr, revdancatt, dan-catt, geo

Geonames machine tags, Triplr.org and JSON, oh my! Dan Catt plays with Geonames and Triplr.

# 30th March 2007, 3:34 pm / triplr, geonames, dan-catt