Here’s a side project that I’m happy can finally be unveiled.
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition has been formed to educate, inspire and mobilise young Australians to solve the climate crisis.
I was recently invited to build an interactive map for the AYCC homepage, to help people understand who else was active nearby, and to motivate people to join their local group.
Check it out below. You can see how many members are active nearby, or better still, join:
Ruby3′s new pre-Kindy teacher asked if we spoke Australian with her at home. Fair Dinkum.happy australia day to all friends over there. gonna stay up all night here watching federer vs. nadal and pretend.Sleepover with Jack8′s scout pack. On an aircraft carrier! (@ USS Hornet) http://t.co/XaDNCajFJust completed a 7.44 km run with @RunKeeper. Check it out! http://t.co/HCusWGxr #RunKeeper
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
I’m at Sightglass Coffee (270 7th St, at Folsom St, San Francisco) w/ 8 others http://t.co/r5FBFWNxSushi in Maui (@ Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/jju7vtan
Originally posted on incoming-media.com, to introduce my next challenge as it emerges from stealth mode.
This guy is Kurt Lewin. He’s the daddy of social psychology.
In 1936, Lewin tweeted “behavior is a function of the person and their environment.”
That might seem obvious these days, but back then it contradicted most popular theories by placing importance on your momentary context in understanding your behavior, rather than relying entirely on your past behavior.
Incoming is about behavioral prediction.
We believe that personality patterns can be detected in the unprecedented data being captured by digital media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Groupon and Zynga.
And we believe that patterns of environmental context can be detected and learnt and predicted, on a smartphone.
We’ve even made an overly purple video to prove it:
Last month I departed Xumii after a fantastic two and a half years.
It was my absolute pleasure to lead such a massively talented group of Engineers to build our mobile social networking platform. What a ride we shared!
From stealth mode, through private beta to market launch, then the crucial pivot from a direct-to-consumer model to one aimed at mobile operators and handset manufacturers, resulting in our acquisition by Myriad Group and the scaling of our delivery capability, and then achieving customer validation by selling our technology to mobile operators in over a dozen countries, with revenues estimated at USD 80 – 100 million.
But all good things must come to an end. It’s been around 12 months since the acquisition, and I have decided to move on to The Next Challenge…
I’m co-founding a business to commercialize and export some exciting intellectual property coming out of NICTA (National Information and Communications Technology Australia) that we believe will solve a big problem in the global mobile industry.
My partners in this new venture are Max Ott and David McKeague at NICTA. It’s great to be doing this with NICTA, the largest organization in Australia dedicated to ICT research, and the birthplace of Open Kernel Labs, which recently announced the deployment of its software in over one billion mobile handsets worldwide.
We are in stealth mode, so I am unable to share many details at this time. However, for now, the tag cloud includes: mobile, geo, social, big data, psychology, and machine learning.
I’ll be leading Engineering and Product, and I expect to be back & forth between Sydney and the Bay Area for the next several months as we progress through the initial stages of customer development and product development.
Stay tuned for more details.
geo-autocomplete is a jQuery extension I wrote to convert any input field on a web page into an autocomplete field that suggests locations in real-time as you type. It’s like Google Instant for your Maps.
The location results are supplied by the Geocoding Service built into Google Maps API v3.
A thumbnail of each suggested location is also presented, using the Google Static Maps API v2, to help you quickly choose the right location.
The feedback from sites using geo-autocomplete has been really positive. It has been used as a solution for users to check the spelling of foreign locations, and also as a solution to quickly re-locate a map, as seen on GeoMeme.
Since I wrote the first version of geo-autocomplete, about a year ago, there have been a few feature requests, and some developments in jQuery and the Google APIs that can be taken advantage of, so it’s time for an upgrade.
The new geo-autocomplete is built on the new jQuery UI framework, as a jQuery UI Widget rather than a jQuery plugin.
Adding geo-autocomplete to an input field is now as simple as adding one line of Javascript, plus there are some new customization options available for power users.
Here’s the code, and you can play with some examples below. Start by typing location names into the input fields:
Early this morning I ran my first half-marathon. We started over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ran around the City, and ended up at the Sydney Opera House. It was a beautiful day and a great experience.
My recent running adventures have been motivated by the usual things; keeping fit, feeling healthy, living longer. And also an unusual interest in running gadgetry.
So I thought I would share some details of that gadgetry, in the hope that it will appeal to the latent runner inside some other gadget enthusiasts out there. It’s an Engineer’s approach to running a half-marathon.
Also I am finding it difficult to walk this afternoon without cursing like a pirate, so I might as well be productive while I sit here at the computer, alternating my feet between buckets of hot and cold water and hallucinating about apple pie and custard.
First up is Fitbit, a wonderful gadget that provides you with visibility of your calorific inputs and outputs. The Fitbit Tracker contains a motion sensor like the one found in a Nintendo Wii. It senses your motion in three dimensions, works out what you are doing, and provides useful information and advice about these daily activities.
Data is uploaded from your Fitbit device to your Fitbit website via a wireless base station connected to your computer. On the website, you can also detail everything that you eat, chosen from a large database of foods, to compare your calorific intake to your calorific burn.
Understanding calories is no longer a black art. I’ve long had a suspicion that sitting at my desk all day long was probably a bad thing. Now, my Fitbit shows me exactly how much of a bad thing.
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