7 items tagged “oxfordgeeknight2”
2007
Oxford Geek Night videos. The videos from the last Oxford Geek Night have now been posted.
So that was Oxford Geek Night 2. Nat’s writeup, including video of the local news coverage (in which I look like a total dork).
Discourse DB. A collaborative effort to collect the opinions of the world’s journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues, powered by Semantic MediaWiki so there’s metadata coming out of its ears.
What the heck is HTML 5? Slides from my five minute HTML 5 talk at Oxford Geek Night 2.
Extending a WiFi network with two Macs and a FireWire cable
Last night’s Oxford Geek Night went really well, despite more than the usual flurry of problems. It’s definitely true that the more geeks there are in a room the less likely it is that the projector will work! Thankfully we got everything up and running in time for the talks to start, although it was a pretty close call.
[... 595 words]Quakr 7d Tiltometer. How the Quakr team built their own seven dimensional metadata camera using sellotape, protractors and a ball of string.
quakr. Uses Flickr machine tags to add tilt/pan/direction information to photos, then displays them in the correct orientation in a 3D Flash viewer. Presented at last night’s Oxford Geek Night.