Knitware is always interested in finding out about new technologies and how they can effect us in our day to day lives.

Magnus Ivarsson, lives and works in Sweden and has been creating robots that can be controlled through the web, it seems like a cool area to explore … so let’s do it!

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Finally. It’s been 19 years since we last saw Indy - 19 years trying to pick the truth out of the rumours. And with only a month to go I’m pretty excited. I am not the only one. The Indiana Jones series is a silver screen legend. Rarely do film-goers talk about action films with such enthusiasm because rarely does Hollywood produce action films with such quality characters. And rarely has a film’s development had such a slow burn. Suffice to say anticipation around the Cystal Skull is rife. Hype should be easy. But it ain’t what it used to be. read full post »

(cross-posted from Made by Many)

We went to mashup* Events Widgets last night. There were about 200 people there, four panelists and some people demo’ing new stuff. I went along to find out what is happening on the widget scene. I was hoping to hear about some concrete examples, and was interested in hearing how people, brands, media owners are making money from widgets. So was everyone else, and the audience attacked.

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Jeff Jarvis has written an interesting post writing off polls and listing a number of new ways to take the pulse of the nation during US election campaigning. They include:

• Google searches
• AdWords demand
• Mentions of candidates in blogs
• Textual analysis
• Web traffic
• Video traffic
• Microblogging traffic (Twitter)
• Social sites
• Prediction markets
• Bookmakers odds

I scored an invitation to the beta of PhotoPhlow.com via a badge at Joi Ito’s blog and discovered an amazing story linking back through the history - yes, history - of Web 2.0 photo-sharing phenomenon Flickr.

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You might have read what has been happening recently between Prince and his legions of online fans. Rolling Stone summarised it nicely with their headline “Prince Attempts To Alienate Entire Fanbase In One Fell Swoop”. In short, Prince has hired a “web sheriff” to issue cease and desist letters to Prince fan sites demanding that they remove all photos, artwork and fan-submitted, Prince-related pictures.

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