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When Matt Powlson’s job as an RAF aircraft engineering officer took him away from his family, he still wanted to read his three-year-old daughter Libby a bedtime story. From that paternal desire, an entire business has developed. Matt set about writing a programme for a digital picture book. Every time his daughter turned a page, [...]
10 Pixels
I was poking around Twitter the other day when I spotted an interesting looking tweet from 10 Pixels talking about a exhibition they’ll be running next week here in Bath. I emailed them to find out more, and they said this: Q: Please introduce yourself and your project A: We are 10 Pixels, a group of [...]
HashBang.TV Episode 8 “The Prime mover in the developer community”
Episode 8 of HashBang TV has arrived. On this weeks show we are joined by community legend Thayer Prime. We talk about her awesome name, and how she got started in tech. Thayer provides some killer tips on how to break into the industry, discusses how brands are attempting to engage with developers, the challenge of [...]
An interview with Margaret Heffernan
I recently had the pleasure of meeting entrepreneur, CEO and writer (Huffington Post & BNET) Margaret Heffernan, when she visited Bath to mentor groups as part of X Media Lab 2012.
Startup Weekend Bath
I caught up with Phil Thomson recently who is putting together an awesome tech-related event the weekend of 8th-10th June 2012. It’s called Startup Weekend Bath and if you’re entrepreneurial and technical, you’ll want to come along. I asked Phil to tell us a bit more… 1) Can you tell us what Startup Weekend Bath is? First [...]
An interview with Jem Finer
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Jem Finer, formerly of the Pogues, more recently the driving force behind Mobile Sinfonia. Mobile Sinfonia, which was launched at the Roman Baths during the recent Digital Festival, is a global composition of ringtones set to compile rings from around the world over coming years. Jem is also the artist [...]
Bath at the forefront of campaign to get coding on the curriculum
Thinkers, teachers and tech experts in Bath are leading the push to have coding taught in schools across the length and breadth of the country. Academics in the city say the UK will not be able to fully exploit opportunities in tech unless early-years courses are held in computer programming. The Bath Digital Festival blazed a trail last month [...]
Hashbang.tv: Episode 5
Introducing you to Hashbang.tv – a tech blog & podcast hosted by Bath’s very own Chris Book (founder of Bardowl and winner of TheSPARKies Best Startup award) and James Parton. The podcast is not Bath-centric, but covers interesting tech products and stories. This is Episode 5: Oded Ran is on the show to talk about Touchnote, the mobile [...]
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