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2013-05-19 10:11:37 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 41 +1s)

Here are a few pics from our trip to Google I/O to report on Google Glass

2013-05-19 08:57:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

2013-05-16 20:46:01 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

I've been in San Francisco at Google I/O - mainly to report on Glass. Here's a blogpost and a couple of videos

2013-05-10 11:07:42 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Anyone going to Google I/O with Glass? I'm a BBC reporter looking to interview people about their experiences so far... 

2013-03-23 15:36:09 (26 comments, 3 reshares, 32 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21882845  I wrote what I thought was fairly uncontroversial and cheery piece about the way kids are using Raspberry Pi this week.

The first comment made me laugh: "What a good tech story. I wonder how long it'll be before someone feels the need to criticise it."

But quite soon there were indeed people piling in to knock it - whether it was criticising primary school kids for wanting to use "bloatware" like Skype, or mocking the whole idea of Raspberry Pi.

Overall the tone of the comments is much more reasonable than is usual on my posts - but there does seem to be a section of the tech community that can get cross about just about anything.

2013-03-10 13:30:28 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 38 +1s)

Here's a little video I made on my last full day at BBC TV Centre - it's a quick tour of the news operation accompanies by the ghosts of news bulletins past....

2013-03-08 08:04:08 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21699459

London tech startup Roli is working on new ways of interacting physically with technology - and its first product is a new musical instrument, the Seaboard. It's a piano with a spongy keyboard and it's already being tested by leading musicians. Have a look...

2013-03-07 09:30:06 (26 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

Here is my blogpost plus video on the latest update to Google Street View. Interview with Street View mastermind is via Google Hangout - very disappointed with video quality

2013-03-01 17:35:59 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm trying to do a Google Hangout using a Chromebook Pixel - but my office network doesn't seem to like it. Keep getting errors - micropohone not working when I know  it is switched on, connection problems when tests show I'm on a fast network.- I'm wondering whether it's something to do with the settings on the Chromebook or with our work network, but after half an hour with an in-house support guy, we've failed to crack it. Any ideas?

2013-02-22 21:18:34 (21 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21553138 A quick look at the Chromebook Pixel

2013-02-22 20:22:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

A night at the Brits...

2013-02-17 10:11:00 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-02-15 17:44:01 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21472520 Jony Ive interviewed in his design studio. This is the first time I've seen anything filmed inside Apple in recent years - a huge scoop for Blue Peter!

2013-02-11 18:13:06 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Ski Morzine GoPro 2013 Took two GoPros on my skiing holiday - here's the result

2013-01-20 22:47:23 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

2013-01-17 15:33:58 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21059806 It's 30 years since Britain's first breakfast television programme launched - and with it the first (?) computers in a UK TV newsroom. I was there - here's a look back

2012-12-10 10:47:17 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

A China tech trip Behind the scenes on a BBC trip to film tech firms in China...little video shot on phone/GoPro

2012-12-06 06:31:59 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20603946 Lenovo's quest to be cool - can the world's biggest PC maker start building a brand consumers love as well as respect? Second of three reports on China tech firms

2012-11-26 17:19:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

A few pictures from my trip to China to report on three hi-tech firms. The pics are from our one day of sightseeing.

2012-11-26 17:15:20 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

One of my favourite pics from my China trip - a bride poses on the Great Wall

2012-11-06 14:03:45 (14 comments, 11 reshares, 28 +1s)

Did you play Elite, the classic 3D space trading game - on the BBC Micro in the 1980s? One of its co-creators David Braben is trying to bring out a new version using the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous?ref=live)  Within hours of the project going live, he's raised £170,000 towards his £1.25m target - but after the initial excitement has died down is there a big enough audience for this game? I'll be watching with interest 

2012-11-03 10:37:49 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20137791 Here's my film for BBC Newsnight on 3D printing

2012-11-02 16:55:53 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Smartphone camera test - very unscientific. The Nokia Lumia 920, the Google Nexus 4, and the iPhone 5.  They all seem pretty good to me.

2012-10-21 09:52:24 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Really pleased with the quality of video I'm getting out of my GoPro - here is a video about walking the dog....

2012-10-14 15:51:57 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

GoPro test on Skye On my trip to the Isle of Skye I tried out the new wifi bacpac plus iOS app with the GoPro HD Hero - here's the result...

2012-10-14 15:34:56 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19873530 My interview this week with Jeff Bezos produced a scoop when he revealed that Amazon makes no profit on the Kindle Fire, selling it at cost to promote sales of ebooks and videos. 

2012-10-14 13:04:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

A week that started with a Wiki wedding, and took me to Cheltenham and the Isle of Skye...

2012-10-14 12:56:15 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 7 +1s)

Had a great trip this week to the Isle of Skye, in search of Britain's most remote broadband user. Through diving rain, and travelling across a loch, we eventually found Iain Wilson on the Knoydart peninsular - no roads, no mains power, but a speedy broadband connection via the Tegola community scheme beamed over from Skye.  More on this here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19921726

2012-09-29 17:06:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

http://storify.com/ruskin147/my-half-marathon-september-30th I used Storify to record my training for the Ealing Half marathon - and try to boost my fundraising. Not sure if it made a difference - but one day before the race I've raised over £1100 for Children in Need..

2012-09-20 19:48:17 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19664578 Here's my quick look at Apple Maps - an upgrade which many users are seeing as a downgrade from Google Maps...

2012-09-03 16:40:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

I'm running the Ealing half marathon on September 30th - and raising money for Children in Need. I'm also hoping to use various social media tools and other technology to track my training and the run itself.

2012-08-28 10:54:21 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

We used a Freedom of Information request to find out how much the UK government had spent on Facebook adverts for its GREAT campaign. The answer was nearly £100,000 - a drop in the ocean compared with other spending on the campaign. But was it value for money?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19396785

2012-08-10 15:37:20 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19192395 Who won the social media Olympics? I've awarded medals to best tweeter, best social media picture, and best team. 

2012-08-10 15:29:04 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-08-07 14:29:42 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

I must get the hang of this by the end of the day

2012-08-06 07:40:12 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

McDonalds, Super Saturday, Olympic Stadium....

2012-08-06 07:38:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Umbrellas, Olympic Stadium.....

2012-08-06 07:37:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Panorama, opening ceremony, before the show...

2012-08-06 07:36:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Pretty cool to watch Mars landing via NASA app in bed....

2012-08-03 11:05:23 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19102635

What happens to China's gold medallists each evening? They are taken to a disused youth club in Romford to share their experiences with millions of users of one of China's social media superpowers.

2012-07-23 08:47:38 (47 comments, 17 reshares, 31 +1s)

A Chirp Experiment - can your iPhone hear this?

I've been playing around with a clever  new iPhone app called Chirp that uses sound to transfer data between phones. This video is a bit of an experiment to see if the audio signal transmitted by the app still works over YouTube - if you have an iPhone and download the app you can test it for me. (NB - the computer scientists from UCL who are behind the app tell me an Android version is coming "soon")

2012-07-19 13:57:27 (12 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18896983 The British music labels - in the form of the BPI - are at war with Google over online piracy. Here's a film I made for Newsnight about the issue. Warning - contains epic bad hair from Tim Burgess of The Charlatans.

2012-07-18 05:18:25 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18870170 I got a certain amount of flak - largely from social media consultants - about last week's investigation into the value of Facebook "likes" and adverts. Here's a response - and some more evidence....

2012-07-15 07:57:27 (2 comments, 8 reshares, 27 +1s)

Raspberry Pi - 4,000 A Day, Camera Coming

The Raspberry Pi project is taking off at a phenomenal rate. In May last year David Braben and Eben Upton from Cambridge came to see me at the BBC and tell me of their plan to build a tiny computer the size of a USB stick to encourage children's interest in coding. The YouTube video I made that day has had more than 800,000 views. By February this year they were ready to release the device - which had grown a little but was still only the size of a credit card, though they still expected demand to be in the tens of thousands. The day they announced pre-orders, the website crashed - and ever since they have been ramping up production through two suppliers RS and Farnell.  

More impressively, a vibrant community has grown up around the project - this weekend in Cambridge saw the latest Raspberry Jam event where people come together to... more »

2012-07-13 05:43:43 (34 comments, 50 reshares, 119 +1s)

A week ago I set up a Facebook page for an imaginary business called VirtualBagel as part of a BBC investigation into Facebook adverts. I did not promote it anywhere - but I bought adverts to let Facebook users around the world know about it. Amazingly, 3,000 people decided they "liked" a page with no real content about a non-existent business. But were my new customers really worth anything? Find out more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18819338

2012-07-10 16:10:47 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18768443
Meet SB.TV and Yogscast - great young entrepreneurs showing the established TV industry how to build an audience from your bedroom. And very nice guys too....

2012-07-08 07:51:46 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

Serena serves in the Wimbledon final as captured by burst mode on Samsung Galaxy S3