Two years back I posted an entry listing the science companies I knew around Brighton who are involved in high-tech software (i.e. not science companies who make physical products). The list has changed a bit with some nice additions so I’ve updated it below.  If you know of one that I’m missing do send me an update. I’m interested because I’m an A.I. researcher for industry by trade.

• PANalytical at SInC (one of my current employers for interesting A.I. work – I work on CUDA for parallelisation and pattern recognition and optimisation for solution finding, Prof. Paul Fewster is the head of the R&D team)
• Qtara (a new employer of mine creating a cutting-edge Intelligent Virtual Human)
• BrandWatch in the BrightonMediaCentre (a social metrics company using natural language processing)
• SecondLife in the North Laines (this office is a big part of their European presence)
• Ambiental at SInC (great flood-risk simulations and modelling, I help them with speeding up and improving the science behind their flood models, Justin Butler is the founder)
• Proneta at SInC (very small company, John Hother sometimes has A.I. related questions)
• Observatory Sciences at SInC (Philip Taylor is the main chap here, they use EPICS and LabView)
• Ricardo in Shoreham (a big engineering consultancy)
• Elektro Magnetix at SInC
• NeuroRobotics at SInC
• MindLab at SInC (they do non-invasive brain monitoring)
• Animazoo in Shoreham (they build motion-capture suits for dancers and actors)
• BotBuilder in Brighton (a robot focused design and build company)

Another nice addition to Brighton is the BrightonHackerSpace, a collective of like-minded souls who build new electronic devices and pull things apart to understand how they work. This HackerSpace has spawned BotBuilder (above) and I’m looking forward to seeing a few more created.

A little further away up in London I also know of:

• Smesh who offer a brand monitoring system similar to BrandWatch
• CognitiveMatch ‘who match customers to products in real time’
• Maxeler Technologies in London create parallelised solutions, they appear to specialise in finance and oil modeling

And even further out in Cambridge:

• EmotionAI create realistic emotion-expressing 3D avatars via the Cambridge Science Park

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Here’s a simple idea to help visitors to a new area.  Maybe it’s been done before and someone can leave a comment about it?

The problem – when you visit a place you don’t know you have no idea what you need to see, where to get a map, which pubs and cafes are nice, where the worthy landmarks are etc.

Possible solution – visit a site that gives you 1-2 pages of printable (or iPhoneable) data culled from WikiPedia, OpenStreetMap/GMaps, OpenPlaques, Flickr, Twitter and more.  The pages would give you a summary of what’s there to see, some history, maps and also some recent information (probably via Twitter).

The printable option would be useful, iPhone coverage still isn’t great in the UK in the smaller and more interesting towns.

Personally I’d use this – we go walking to places that we don’t know every weekend and some background, a map and some topical info (e.g. are there any fairs or events happening today?) would be super useful.  I’d guess that this would be useful for anyone visiting an area, even just for parents coming to visit for the weekend.

Does anything like this already exist?

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Many people have asked why I’m writing a book without a publisher.  The story has interested a bunch of people so I’ll outline the basics here.

Update: there’s a related article by Marc-André Cournoyer covering how he wrote his “Create your own programming language” eBook.

I started writing The Screencasting Handbook in the middle of this year (about 5 months back).  My primary motivation was to write a useful Handbook that teaches my 4 years of skills to new screencasters.  My main goals were to:

• Release early, release often – so I can iterate based on the needs of my readers rather than the needs I’d guess that they have (based on some support at the Business of Software forum)
• Get the written parts out as soon as possible – I didn’t want drafts kicking around for a year before a publisher released them to the readers, I wanted the chapters out in the hands of readers as soon as possible
• Build a community (Google Group) around the Handbook – so my readers can ask and answer questions without me acting as a bottleneck

To achieve this I needed to create a site and determine if there was demand for the topic.  I had a WordPress theme created which signs potential readers up to an AWeber mailing list (costing $20USD/month) and I setup a Google Group.

I then put the word out to screencasters, mostly through ShowMeDo and by writing some useful blog posts that were picked up by screencasting companies.

At the same time I wrote a proposed Table of Contents (August) and released a survey via SurveyMonkey (free account).  I released this into the Google Group and asked for feedback.  I iterated a few times (September) based on feedback until everyone figured that I would cover the most beneficial topics.  At this point I added the Table of Contents as a PDF to the Handbook’s homepage.

By now I had 50 or so people signed up to the list – between the silent sign-ups and the active users in the Google Group I knew that the book would be in demand.  The survey detailed all the areas that caused problems for screencasters so I could be sure that by answering those questions, others would want the Handbook.

Pricing and releasing

At this point I cracked on with writing the Handbook.  I quickly went from 1,000 words to 10,300 and in October I announced that a new release was being prepared for sale.  I announced that the target price of the finished book would be $39USD and that early-bird purchasers could get it for $26USD (a 1/3 discount).  I also offer an unconditional refund at any time.

The payment gateway is PayPal and the front-end is e-junkie, they take payment and offer downloads for just $5/month.  Integrating the e-junkie basket into WordPress involves copying over a few lines of javascript, it is all very simple

At the start of November I released version 4 into the Google Group and announced it on the mailing list, this was quickly followed by a 5th release which added a new chapter.  I’m also about to decrease the discount by $1 taking the price up to $27USD.

After purchase everyone gets invited onto a second emailing list for Handbook Updates (and they’re removed from the first mailing list).  The second list is used to mail out links to updated versions of the PDF.  I also mail out a second survey about a week after purchase to ask the reader if they found the book useful and to ask what else I need to cover soon.  The feedback from the surveys and the Google Group is invaluable.

Figures so far – in several months with only a little effort at publicity I signed up over 200 users to the mailing list.  Just over 10% of those became buyers in the first week of releasing version 4 (given that the book is only about 1/6th written I’m pretty happy with this).  Next week I’ll be writing a couple of extra chapters and then I’ll be increasing my publicity.

I’m releasing my beginner screencasts on the Handbook’s blog for free, this will help prove the quality of the Handbook and it will bring in more visitors.

Print on demand?

Once I reach ‘edition 1′ I imagine I’ll release a print-on-demand version via lulu.  Several readers have already asked for a printed copy rather than a PDF.  ‘edition 1′ is a way off yet – probably early next year some time.

Tools

I’m writing the Handbook with Google Docs, I can edit it from home or whilst sitting in Cafe Delice.

To publish a new version I download a PDF.  I use Apple’s Preview to open the PDF and then ‘print to PDF’ a shorter version containing just the first 15 or so pages.

I upload the shorter version as the Outline to the Handbook’s homepage.  The longer version goes to e-junkie (for new purchasers) and to my second AWeber list (where everyone who has bought a copy gets notified about new releases).

I’ve used Google Website Optimizer to A/B test the landing page, with the Google Website Optimizer plugin for WordPress you just copy over the javascript that GWO provides to three pages (A, B and result page) and it starts to track conversions.  If there’s interest I’ll write some details on the (few) things that I’ve learned about landing page design.

I’ve already discussed AWeber, SurveyMonkey and Google Groups above.

Having an ‘accountability buddy’ helps!

Andy White is writing Podcasting Unleashed at the same time, we’re meeting every two weeks to push each other forwards and trade tips.  We’re both using WordPress and he’s about to move to Aweber so we’ll have pretty much the same setup.  Knowing that your partner is making progress when you’re having a slow day is a great motivator to write a few more pages!

Edition 2?

I’m thinking about the needs of a second edition, I’m wondering if a book format (with a linear series of pages) is wrong and perhaps a wiki is a better tool.  It would certainly allow collaborative content creation.  I’d also like to build some tools like an automatic de-noiser and a scripting tool.

Want to write you own eBook?

It occurs to me that the above process might be useful to other people who want to write their own book, particularly those who want to get early feedback from a potential audience before committing to write a full book.

One possibility is the construction of a site that makes ‘everything easy’ for a potential author.  If you’d like to know if I push this idea in the future, make a comment below which includes your email.

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Yesterday I ran a workshop on ‘How to build a network’ for 35 WiredSussex interns.  The presentation is clear, the links below will help.

During the talk I linked to some OpenStreetMap early progress videos for London 2006- and worldwide-2008 edits, these demonstrate a nice graphical result of building personal networks around a project.

Early on I ran an idea based on ‘free schools‘, I asked everyone to name something they could teach and something they could learn.  People put up their hand if they could teach something that another wanted to learn – of the 35 in the room we had 33 hits for skills that could be taught, sometimes over half the room could teach that skill. The goal was to show everyone that they had many as-yet-unknown links with everyone in the room which could help build their network.

Everyone wrote their skills/needs on a post-it and WiredSussex has listed them all here, here’s an example:

Roughly, here’s what I covered:

1. Be yourself, be human, don’t be a shiny-suited-salesman-with-secret-handshakes
2. Everyone spoke to someone they didn’t know and then introduced their name, their company and how they either met a friend or started a conversation – this was an ice-breaker aimed at getting everyone to meet one new person
3. Laying the foundation of a FreeSchool (ignore the anarchistic overtones!  just take the general idea of non-formal education and skill sharing) using Post-Its to show ‘something you can teach’ and ‘something you want to learn’, then each person read out what they want to learn and others put up their hands if they had a relevant skill.  33 of the 35 interns could learn a desired skill from others in the room, only 2 misses is not bad at all.
4. 10 years of my experiences learning to network, working for others and building my own businesses and projects all in 15 minutes
5. Getting 3 people to stand-up and explain ‘here’s what I’m good at’ (for reference later)
6. 10 minute break for the interns to meet someone new – most of them succeeded (which was rather lovely)
7. Ranking business cards using bluetack on the wall – which cards were ‘most communicative’ to ‘least communicative’ and discussing what makes for a good or bad card
8. Getting a Moo card – super easy card creation for personal cards and projects
9. Who remembers people that were introduced earlier – emphasising that if you meet someone for a personal chat or stand-up you’re more likely to be remembered – so always take the opportunity to be memorable
10. Online networking – who uses blogs, twitter, facebook etc
11. Homework – interns to mail me a write-up on their blog, tweet, facebook posting or whatever that links them to the event – I’ll then update this post when they mail me the link
12. Discussion of local events (listed below)
13. Places and people the interns might come across – The Skiff, The Werks, SInC, Cafe Delice, Jon Markwell, Paul Silver, Sarah Bird, Seb Lee-Delisle, Emily Toop, Matt Weston

Some local events: Likemind, OpenCoffeeSussex, £5 App, BrightonFarm, FlashBrighton, BrightArray, BuildBrighton, BrightonRobotics, Slackspace, Brighton Business on LinkedIn, WriteClub, BANG, Brighton Illustrators, Girl Geeks, UXBri, CultureGeeks, GeekWineThing.

Someone (say if it was you!) asked me in the pub about the state of Artificial Intelligence (that’s another subject of mine), I came across this article on the End of the AI Winter which you might want to read.

My projects include working for MASA, building IMOzsvaldSystems, building Mor Consulting Ltd, co-building ShowMeDo with Kyran Dale, co-creating £5 App with John Montgomery, building ProCasts, writing The Screencasting Handbook.

My pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, my blog – feel free to follow me or link to me.

Thanks Hon Mond Ng for the tweet.  Thanks to Maria Welby and Gearoid Conlon for Linking In, Alexandra Gaiger for Linking In and blogging, David Howard for Linking In and welcome Stefan Daniels to LinkedIn.  Hi Katie, Oli.

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Tomorrow I run a workshop for WiredSussex to teach 35 interns ‘how to build a network’.  I’ll write an update that links to my presentation after the workshop, here I want to link to a few examples I’ll probably use.

Update – I now have a full write-up which makes this post obsolete.

OpenStreetMap early progress videos for London 2006- and worldwide-2008 edits.

My past projects include working for MASA, building IMOzsvaldSystems, building Mor Consulting Ltd, co-building ShowMeDo with Kyran Dale, co-creating £5 App with John Montgomery, building ProCasts.

My pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, my blog.

Some events: Linkmind, OpenCoffeeSussex, £5 App, BrightonFarm, FlashBrighton, BrightArray, BuildBrighton, BrightonRobotics, Slackspace, Brighton Business on LinkedIn, WriteClub, BANG, Brighton Illustrators, Girl Geeks, UXBri, CultureGeeks, GeekWineThing

The main discussion list is the BNM.

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Rob Walling has been working to build the Micropreneur Academy – a focused site aimed at MicroISV’s who want to grow their businesses into high-value, fast-growth affairs (original May announce).

He contacted me a few months back to ask if I’d like to contribute an article on how screencasts can boost sales of software products, naturally I jumped at the chance!

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first logged in.  Rob had sent me a login as I wanted to know what the community looked like, and what they’d need, before I wrote the article.  I was pleasently surprised to see a sort of mini-BusinessOfSoftware forum (i.e. friendly, helpful people who are working on cool stuff) backed by an awful lot of solid start-up knowledge written by Rob.

Knowing that I’d have to add an article of similar quality I spent time dissecting Rob’s articles.  Having worked in start-ups for 10 years and having founded 3 of my own, I had an idea about a lot of the content, but I kept finding nuggets of really useful material in Rob’s articles.

I was left wishing I’d had access to this when Kyran and I had founded ShowMeDo back in 2005!  I must also confess – I ended up using some of Rob’s ideas on market research to help plan my new eBook entitled The Screencasting Handbook.

Anyhow, I ought to cut this long story short.  I wrote the article and found a set of happy readers inside Rob’s forum.  I’m now also a mentor in his group because of my experience with on-line community building in ShowMeDo.

Rob’s about to open up the site to new membership, so if you have an interest in finding a closed group of people who are all building their own online start-ups, backed by lots of solid knowledge, do take a look at the Micropreneur Academy.

You can see two other write-ups by paying members for an idea of the value they see in the site.  Rob’s also very chatty, you can easily get in touch with him if you sign-up to ask any questions.

The following are a couple of the start-ups run by members of the academy (I don’t know any of these, but I did recommend another start-up who has happily joined!):

• Pixur.me
• ThoughtMuse
• BidSketch
• HotNameList
• Flip-start

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Next week’s £5 App night is shaping up nicely, we’re mixing A.I., clean energy production, geo-urls and a safety-training start-up in 3 talks by new speakers.  I’ve cribbed the following from the 18th event description, sign-up on Upcoming to give us an idea of numbers please:

Allister Furey will be talking about applying ‘bio-inspired’ AI techniques to the next generation of wind energy technology which uses tethered wings (that’s kites to you and me) to drive electrical generators. He’ll show some:

… examples of where these techniques; genetic algorithms and neural networks, have been used in other applications, sometimes in combination with physics simulation. Hopefully demystifying some of these techniques and show how they can be relatively simple to implement, including how to program a genetic algorithm in one line of code and how to let a physics model build itself.

Next up there’ll be Jamie Matthews on hereit.is:

a simple web app which lets you create and share short urls for geographical locations. As well as explaining what it is and how it works, he’ll be taking you on a whistle-stop tour of MVC architectures, REST APIs, CSS3 magic, the Google Maps API, and anything else he can squeeze into twenty minutes.

Finally David Hawes will discuss how a knee operation in July 2008 and hence an unexpected chunk of “down time” allowed him to finish a decent version of www.safetytrainingnetwork.co.uk, through the haze of various painkillers, in time for a launch at the Focus on First Aid conference:

The launch was well received and so he decided to quit his safe job at Avanade, in the depths of the recession, to pursue his own ideas full-time. Eight months later he released the first subscriptions for www.trainingcoursebooker.com enabling small Safety Training Providers to manage their businesses and sell courses. David will talk about what he has learnt and why he is glad he has done it after working at large companies for the last 5 years.

You might also want to see videos from last month’s event which include Darren Fell on Crunch, ChatBadge, Taykt and a human memory hack.

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Here’s a problem I’ve been pondering for the last few months, maybe you can say if my idea has legs…

This year I’ll be expanding my ProCasts at a rate of knots.  I intend to partner with a set of great freelancers (particularly animators and 2D designers) – but how do I find them?

The obvious answer here in Brighton is to attend BrightonFarm (I am – thanks Paul), but only a subset of all of Brighton’s (and near-by) creatives will attend.  How else do I find out who is active?  One excellent creative I’m meeting tomorrow doesn’t attend the Farm, I only heard about him through a personal recommendation.

What if I want to contact freelancers who’d never attend the Farm (BrightonFarm tends to attract web-devs but not, say, legal folk or niche non-web programmers)?  I guess it is back to asking around, reading directories and finding those who are great at marketing themselves.

A case in point – via my liaising with Sussex Uni I’m told that a couple of very smart algorithmic/Matlab/research chaps are looking for ‘tough problems to solve’.  I could direct them to the Farm but that’s not really the right locale and I can’t think of any other obvious place where they could say ‘hey, I’m available, here’s what I do!’.  Instead they remain (as far as I can tell) in obscurity and that’s just a darn shame.

An ‘active freelancer’ listing?

Something interesting happens when freelancers are more visible – more collaborations will result.  This helps build further resilience into our local economy and brings the skills of other’s a bit closer to us.

I suspect that SMEs as well as freelancers would benefit by noticing the skills that were on offer – just the act of making the skills visible would remind people of the range and depth of knowledge that’s available down here.

WiredSussex has a jobs-board and a projects-board and ProjectBrighton has a jobs-board – how about adding a freelancers-board?  A simple RSS feed that I can watch would let me see who’s active and available.  At the very least it would spark new conversations, at best it would help us point work at the right people and strengthen relationships.

WiredSussex have a freelancers showcase but Luke tells me it isn’t actively supported.  A twitter-like solution wouldn’t need any support time…

Filtered, restricted postings?

Spammy rubbish would be useless of course – so why not control the listing and only allow registered Brightonian’s  to post?  You’d only want occasional posts too to keep the signal:noise ratio high, perhaps I’d describe what I offered and what I was after and I’d only get to do so twice a year.

After setup we’d see a few posts a week – easy enough to keep an occasional eye on.  As a bonus, if a central authority can kill your right to post if you misbehave then you won’t mess around with spammy tactics – again keeping the signal clean.

If the listing is read by many (WiredSussex’s audience is pretty large down here) then those characters would count, making it worth spending time crafting a decent entry.  It would be a sort of ‘twitter-for-active-freelancers‘.

Does the idea have legs?  Any freelancers care to comment on whether being more visible would increase their chance of finding work?  Any non-freelancers think it’ll be useful to keep tabs on who’s active and what skills are locally available?

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

Last week I was kindly invited to speak at a Research Day for the Infomatics dept at Sussex Uni. by Inman Harvey and Anil Seth.  The plan was to talk about ‘life after my MSc [10 years back]‘ and to figure out if and how we could get more students involved with tech companies in Brighton.

Of the 30 attendees it was lovely to spot 10 old faces including my evolutionary-hardware thesis supervisor Adrian and old-drinking-buddy Andy who is now involved with the MSc programme.

The first part of the morning was spent looking through a set of research proposals from members of the dept. who were presenting short, low-cost projects.  The projects were vying for funding from a limited pot, in part the exercise was to present the wide range of research to everyone in the room.  Projects included:

• “Using Motion Capture to learn geometric transformations” (using Animazoo‘s motion-capture systems)
• “Music Interfaces for Mobiles” (involving novel iPhone development…I wish we’d had tech like iPhones back during my MSc)
• “Further experiments in perceptual crossing”
• “Optimal Computation meets Compiler Optimisation”
• “Towards an earlier diagnosis of infants with, or at risk of, cerebral palsy” (most voted for – a clear contender for using the funds to prime the pump for a larger project)
• “Network formations: from neural development to epidemiology, through ant foraging”
• “Prototype interface for pilot studies of visual attention research around ‘design for attention’”

Three of the talks received full funding, two part funding and one required further work.  The range of the topics was wide, I was particularly interested to see iPhones making an entry and the visual tracking system applied to cerebral palsy detection was darned cool.

Later I got to speak on my past and the local industry.  I explained how I’d worked in MASA, started Mor Consulting and co-founded ShowMeDo and FivePoundApp and was heavily involved with the local tech scene.  Outlining the range of high-tech companies was fun (from NCsoft through FuturePlatforms and Madgex and out to Ambiental).

During discussion there and later in the pub it is clear that there is interest in encouraging links between the dept. and local high-tech companies.  A possible way forward might be to encourage companies to propose MSc and 3rd year projects (talk to me if you’re curious).

I’ll also be posting research news about the dept. here (getting news out) and posting some of our events into the Alergic mail list (sending news in).  It was great seeing some ex-MScs at the last FivePoundApp, hopefully we’ll see more students out at our events in 2009.

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

We had a lovely night!  50 or so enlightened souls joined us at The Werks in Hove for Aleks and Barry‘s talk on the development and launch of SpaceShip! followed by 4 excellent gamesy-themed 10 minute demos.

As Richard says:

“I mean, how does this sound: I turn up at The Werks, icy cold, to be handed a lovely hot mulled wine by the Ribots, directed towards the mince pies, and then entertained with a range of funky technology stuff. Mmm.”

See additional write-ups by Ribot, Mark – thanks chaps.  Short write-up by Emily at robochick.  Longer write-up by Richard at lastminute labs.

For the first hour (video, slides) Aleks talked about the inspiration and development of SpaceShip!, a text-only adventure set in the mold of Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy and other Infocom adventure games.  Barry then picked up with a look at the Inform programming language behind the game.

We then had 4 great demos (sadly our 5th, Dom with the iPhone game, couldn’t attend due to illness):

1. Eye-controlled Pong by Ben Rubinstein (CogApp) (video – thanks Ribot)
2. Fighting Mini-sumo robots by Emily (video)
   
3. Lightsaber mobile phone duelling by Richard and Russ (Lastminute.com Labs) (video)
4. Flash 3D Snow and Xmas games by Seb (PluginMedia) (video)

Ben led the way with a fun look at eye-controlled Pong.  Emily followed with line-following and fighting mini-sumo bots.  Russ and Richard did a great two-part demo showing Nokia N95′s with Python controlling 2-player (across 2 phones) Pong and lightsaber-fighting using accelerometers and bluetooth.

Seb finished with some super-neato demos of particle physics, webcams and augmented reality (see a demo here).

The wonderful Ribots sponsored the night, they provided piping-hot mulled wine, mince pies and beer.  John brought some extra beer (which, um, we finished about midnight) and ginger cake, everyone got a taste.  We also had some announces about The Werks and Ribot’s new office (see video – thanks Ribot).

I was very happy to see some ex-MSc students and Inman Harvey (Sussex Uni’s MSc supervisor for the EasyMSc) – I’m keen to forge more links with my old Uni to get more students involved with local companies and perhaps start some collaborative projects in motion.

John finished by announcing the 5k Competition (rules: still evolving – talk to John or post in the google group), pencilled in for some time next year.  Contact John for more details.

For past events see fivepoundapp.com.  Join our low-volume google group to discuss what you saw, put up new ideas and follow new announces.  See all photos under the £5 App tag at flickr.

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Ian applies Artificial Intelligence for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, produces professional screencasts (ProCasts), writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.