The end?

This blog was maintained as part of my masters degree course, which is now completed. As such there won't be any new posts appearing here.

However the existing posts have links to some interesting content so I'm going to leave them up for posterity. :)

IBM - The Internet of Things

Apologies for the lack of content over the last month. I'm in the final month of lectures in college and I'm up the walls with assignments.

This is a nice video from IBM talking about how data can be used to improve our daily lives by using the internet as a kind of central nervous system for the planet. It's worth a watch. If you want to see more stuff like this visit IBM's A Smarter Planet blog.

TisMe.com

Apologies for the lack of content recently. Since the start of the new college term I've been very busy with assignments, one of which is a mock-up of website I had to produce for one of my courses IS6116 Programming for Web Applications and Services.

The mock-up can be viewed at this link. The site is little more than a facade at the moment, with limited functionality due to the fact that we were only allowed to use client-side scripting for this phase of the project. The javascript for the login and registration work but they're not linked to anything yet and won't store any information.

The next phase of the project will involve using PHP to give the site more functionality with server-side scripting.

I'd welcome any feedback or comments.

Web 3.0

I came across a ZDNet blog post a couple of days ago that featured a nice video on Web 3.0. It's an interesting and concise explanation of how the agents might work and, at just under 4 minutes long, it's well worth a look.

Google Data Centre

I was looking over some material for an assignment for one of my masters modules, EE6162 Telecommunications Technologies and Applications, and I remembered a video I saw on Google's data centres. It's an interesting video featuring a tour of a one of these data centres and an explanation how some of the technology works.

Nexus One

The Guardian has an interesting article on Google's upcoming Nexus One smartphone.

It looks pretty cool. I'd be eager to try it out if and when it's released here.