Chaos'n'Coffee » openspime http://chaosncoffee.com/blog Sparkles of caffeinated nonsense Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:07:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Earth Day, focus on CO2 http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/23/earth-day-focus-on-co2/ http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/23/earth-day-focus-on-co2/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:49:30 +0000 bru http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/?p=200 In case you didn’t notice, yesterday was Earth Day. I’m not a big fan of whatever-days, but there’ve been a couple of interesting events in the last 24 hours that stimulated my interest.
First, Dopplr added a carbon calculator service. Discussing it last night with MattB, I mentioned the fact that for the first time a web two service makes me feel guilty, and felt a bit ashamed too when it prompted me to share the carbon profile with other travellers. He replied that the idea is to push people into starting conversations on the subject, and I think this is a good way to raise awareness. As Matt Jones puts it:

It’s not enforcing any particular course of action – it’s the weighing scales, not the diet.

What we all do with this information is up to us.

On a similar pattern, today in Milan at The Next Web Now (Microsoft event) FIAT presented Ecodrive: new FIAT cars are equipped with a sensor that register CO2 emissions; data can be stored in a USB drive and dumped in a PC for analysis and access by the driver.
The idea is kinda neat, and makes every FIAT 500 a potential 6 gears OpenSpime :)

Update: Information Aesthetics posted about this video today. Neat:

]]> http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/23/earth-day-focus-on-co2/feed/ 0 wee-e-e-e-e-e-eek http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/03/12/wee-e-e-e-e-e-eek/ http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/03/12/wee-e-e-e-e-e-eek/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:40:37 +0000 bru http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/03/12/wee-e-e-e-e-e-eek/ True, I said one week out :)

I’ve been spending a couple of weeks (almost non stop) kindly hosted by a client’s office in order to facilitate the launch of their new project.
Apparently there’ll be more (support, documentation, handover, other than the fun bug-squashing) so until the end of the month you’ll find me in the Fleet Street area more than in SE1.
Interesting discovering of the past week: the Leon Gobi.

I also realized that I didn’t write a word about the week spent in Italy.
I was at a Barcamp in Turin where I did a presentation about webdesign-meet-gamedesign (here my slides, in Italian), and at the girlgeekdinner in Milan (where I wasn’t the only UK based guest, as Sarah Blow, Maz Hardey and Amanda Lorenzani were also there).

The other surprise from my trip I wanted to write about is OpenSpime: almost by chance, stepping by Leandro‘s, I had the chance to see a live preview of the first prototype, amazing. Good luck with the tour now, and call me in for the next brainstorm :P

To understand OpenSpime in a nutshell, watch this interview to David Orban on YDN:


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