birmingham Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/birmingham/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:10:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png birmingham Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/birmingham/ 32 32 be2camp Birmingham: Thursday August 12th (Free) https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2010/08/11/be2camp-birmingham-thursday-august-12th/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:10:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=962 We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham – an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on...

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]]> We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham – an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 – 8.00pm

There are tickets left and its free so if your in Birmingham or around town it looks like an event well worth going to. You can Register Here.

Central Library, Birmingham


Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.
The speakers and topics confirmed so far are as follows:

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services
Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project
Speaker: TBC

Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham
Speaker: TBC

Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham
Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown – Be2Camp

Be2Camp Awards – The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com
Self publishing + augmented reading

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org (ie us!)
http://www.talesofthings.com

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio
Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt
Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA
Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com
The Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com
Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius
Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People
Disability & Digital Accessibility

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]]> be2camp Birmingham: Thursday August 12th (Free) https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2010/08/11/be2camp-birmingham-thursday-august-12th-2/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:10:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=962 We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham – an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on...

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]]> We are just fine tuning our talk for tomorrows Be2Camp in Birmingham – an ‘unconference’ about social media, digital tools and the built environment held at Birmingham Library Theatre, on 12 August 2010 from 12.00 – 8.00pm

There are tickets left and its free so if your in Birmingham or around town it looks like an event well worth going to. You can Register Here.

Central Library, Birmingham


Part of the agenda this year will aim to explore the possibilities for the new Library of Birmingham building and discuss how digital tools might change the way we experience a 21st century library.
The speakers and topics confirmed so far are as follows:

Speaker: Brian Gambles – Head of BCC Library Services
Introduction to Library of Birmingham Project
Speaker: TBC

Second Life and the Virtual Library of Birmingham
Speaker: TBC

Wifi, interaction design and the Physical Library of Birmingham
Paul Wilkinson & Martin Brown – Be2Camp

Be2Camp Awards – The final shortlist

Proboscis – http://bookleteer.com
Self publishing + augmented reading

Andy Hudson-Smith – http://www.digitalurban.org (ie us!)
http://www.talesofthings.com

Michael Kohn – SliderStudio
Democratic Design: StickyWorld

Andy Hartwell – Substrakt
Mobile & Web Apps in the Built Environment

Nick Corbett with Geoff Henderson – Urban Living & DNA
Web2.0 & Sense of Place urban design project

Nick Booth – http://podnosh.com
The Librarian at Large

James Thomson – http://www.burohappold.com
Building Information Modelling: Virtual Reality, Parametric Geometry, Google Earth

Bob Leung – Woobius
Getting your web 2.0 fix in large companies

Alison Smith – Pesky People
Disability & Digital Accessibility

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]]> 3D Birmingham now in Google Earth https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/09/14/3d-birmingham-now-in-google-earth/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/09/14/3d-birmingham-now-in-google-earth/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:02:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1207 Google Earth has taken some notable strides forward recently with the inclusion of auto generated 3D cities. To such a level that the output rivals Microsoft’s Earth which for a...

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Google Earth has taken some notable strides forward recently with the inclusion of auto generated 3D cities. To such a level that the output rivals Microsoft’s Earth which for a while did have the lead in terms of visual quality. The Google Earth blog reported last week that Cardiff and Dublin had been added and now Birmingham joins the throng – see the movie below:

We are really impressed, the city actually looks like the city should, the auto generation system holds up well with the facades of the buildings not suffering from the traditional ‘stripes’ as seen in other models. It would be nice to see each building ‘click-able’ allowing for the integration of data within the built environment but we are sure this is coming. These are exciting terms in terms of 3D cities.

Thanks go to Phil for his comment in our Google Earth in Second Life post regards the model…

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