Happy Birthday Sir George Gilbert Scott
Had he lived, the St Pancras architect would have been 200 today.
Google And British Library Put Books On The Internet
250,000 out-of-copyright works from 1700-1870 to be digitised.
Hop Randomly Around Town With Robot Flaneur
Useless but oddly addictive.
Google Street View Technology Enters Galleries
National Gallery and Tate Britain among 17 galleries now explorable using Street View tech.
Debate: Has Google Got Too Big?
Is Google a benign, modern company that abides by its corporate motto of “don’t be evil” and enriches the sum of human knowledge by indexing and sharing the world’s information ? Or is it an avaricious power-crazed entity that wields a dangerous amount of power …
O2 Boss Blames iPhone For Crappy Coverage
Photo / Takuya Murata In a rare example of corporate confession, the director of phone company O2 has admitted that the service provided to London has been shoddy in recent months. During an interview for the Financial Times, CEO Robert Dunne confirmed that customers were …
Editors New Album Available In Google Street View London Mashup
‘In this light, and on this evening, London’s become the most beautiful thing I’ve seen.” So opines Tom Smith in the opening track to the new Editor’s album. We know because we’ve just stood on top of Primrose Hill with him and his band looking …
Breaking News: Fire At Google HQ, London
A small fire has broken out at Google’s UK headquarters in Buckingham Palace Road. The building has been evacuated. Twitter pictures show a small section of the roof on fire. More updates to come… Looks like it’s well under control now. Seems a tree caught …
Google Street View: A Journey Along The Northern Line
It’s art, but not as we know it. Ian Buchan has pieced together this (overground) journey along the Northern Line using nothing but screengrabs from Google Street View. Where the hell do these people get the time? Still, it’s hypnotic viewing, especially on high quality …
Google Street View London: The Odd Bits
Looks like nobody got any work done yesterday. The new UK Street View implementation from Google is the most alluring diversion since Lady Godiva invented Tetris. As well as checking out your home and place of work, Street View is also the perfect waste of …
Google Street View Now Live In UK
The much-anticipated UK implementation of Google’s Streetview technology happened this morning. Follow the link, zoom in on London, and drag the yellow man icon onto the map to get a 360 degree wraparound of the chosen location. We’re finding it very difficult to post about …
