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£5 App August 11th, last for a few months!
The 19th £5 App will feature a new fab speaker talking about his career as inventor, followed by Seb and Raul. This will be our last £5 App for probably 2 months (due to conferences and John’s wedding), we’ll probably return in November.
The next event is Toy Maker – from Employee to Inventor, it’ll run on Tuesday 11th August at The Skiff, from 8pm until late. Please sign-up on Upcoming so we know how much beer to buy and cake to bake.
I’ll copy the blurb from the site:
Tony Ellis will be speaking about moving from being an employee to an inventor, successfully licensing 45 electronic inventions. Tony spoke at an earlier RobotBrighton on his robots and toys, now he’ll give the story about how he jumped from a career in electronics to running his own company, figuring everything out on his journey to licensing 45 toys and games to large distributors like Mattel and Radica.
Next Seb – Flash Guru and previous 5K App winner – will be talking about a new project called IWillPayYourParkingTicket he is working on with Jamie Matthews.
Finally Raul will give a talk titled “Language and design: we write too much, we design too predictably”.
Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.
The Micropreneur Academy
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!):
Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.
The Screencasting Handbook
I’m very pleased to say that my new screencasting book – The Screencasting Handbook – is now in production.
The website went live this week and once one tiny bug is resolved (the title seems to float a bit weirdly) the site will be finished.
The book’s goal is to present 4 years of my own experiences screencasting, along with the experiences of others, to help new screencasters get up to speed quickly.
My screencasting experience comes from 4 years building ShowMeDo with Kyran where I’ve made over 140 tutorials and founding ProCasts for professional work a year back.
Along the way I wrote a 9-part screencast tutorial but I’ve got so much experience to share…so I figured it was time to write a book.
I’m taking an agile approach to the book’s development. I’ll release a table of contents with Chapter 1 as the first commercial release, probably in mid August.
Next I’ll release new chapters every few weeks. The aim is to iterate on the feedback from my readers so I’m delivering the book that answers their questions, rather than the book that I guess might contain what they need.
You can sign-up on the site for emailed notifications and a chance to win a free license. If you’d just like to keep an eye on things you could always follow our Twitter feed.
Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.
£5 App #18 – A.I. controlled kites, bootstrapped start-up, geo-urls, robots
On Tuesday we had the 18th £5 App event, details of the line-up are here.
Update – write-up by David Hawes on his talk.
Allister Furey on A.I. controlled kites and live physics simulations for green power generation:
£5 App #18 – Allister Furey on A.I. Controlled Kites v2 from IanProCastsCoUk on Vimeo.
David Hawes on his Boot-strapped Start-up:
£5 App #18 – David Hawes on Safety Training Network from Ian Ozsvald on Vimeo.
Jamie Mathews on HereIt.Is:
£5 App #18 – Jamie on HereIt.Is from Ian Ozsvald on Vimeo.
Preview of Steve Carpenter’s Solderless Robot Experimenter Kit:
£5 App #18 – Steve on his solderless robot from IanProCastsCoUk on Vimeo.
Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.
£5 App Tues July 14th @ Skiff – Kite power with AI, short geo-urls and safety training
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.
Ian is a Chief Interim Data Scientist via his Mor Consulting. Sign-up for Data Science tutorials in London and to hear about his data science thoughts and jobs. He lives in London, is walked by his high energy Springer Spaniel and is a consumer of fine coffees.
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