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Robin Byles

Robin Byles has written 9 posts for Unsheffield

James Urqhart: How (not) to make a living off iPhone apps

Self exploratory analysis of my 6 months making iPhone apps

Dan Donald: Was Fur ein Vogel Bist Du?

The future user of cool technology are all about context

Chris Warburton: Combining front ends

Does there need to be a web/desktop division? How can the cloud be calmed locally and can we retain control of our data without it losing features?

James Almond: Jumping the shark

How do we evolve a technology without annoying existing users?

Joel Gascoigne: Filtering your social streams

How do you manage your online identities?

Grayde Bowen: Open source in HE/FE

Uses of open source in education without tech support getting uptight

Saul Cozens: Subverting consumer technology

Hack and use broadband routers and wireless devices that are sent outwith free broadband packages. Open TomTom – hack into these and use for a variety of other applications. TomTom have teamed up with Vodaphone to offer live traffic updates. Hard disk drives can detect when they are dropped in order to protect the data. [...]

Dave Mee: Holistic engagement

The fourth Unsheffield stimulus talk from the Showroom in Sheffield. Dave is from TANDOT Ltd. Now there is a new marketing landscape, where everyone is a publisher and there is bottom-up communication. To down-communicate no longer works. The medium is the message. People find out about stuff now through Google, syndication etc. People can find [...]

Sam Easterby-Smith: Not necessarily new-tech or high-tech…

The second Unsheffield stimulus talk from the Showroom in Sheffield. Sam hasn’t been in the Showroom for 5 years. He has travelled around but it is good to be back. Are his children the future users of new tech? Of course. Future users will also be us when we are dead – our footprint is [...]