About: I'm a dreamer - fascinated by the transformative potential of world-changing ideas, people and technologies :)
One of the founding partners of Carbon Imagineering, an emerging technologies think tank and product hothouse based in the UK and US. FormerlyDeputy Director of Technology Research at Orange UK and part of the team that established Freeserve's R&D unit and Wanadoo's Research & Innovation division - providing intelligence on emerging technologies, consumer trends and innovation strategy)
Variously, a graphic designer, blogger, developer...a board director for bmedi@, Ensembli.com; a blogger and programme consultant for O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony brand and an occasional contributor to O'ReillyGMT, TechCrunch UK and Corante's Mobile Messaging 2.0. Bootstrapped OpenCoffee and BarCamp events in Leeds (UK) as part of a regional tech initiative called .north.
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Blog Posts
Holographic Google Earth... [del.icio.us]
--...Ubiqlabs
Scott Brown on Why He Does Not Welcome Our New Robot Overlords [del.icio.us]
--HAL 9000 and his minions have been war-gaming the robocalypse for years — testing our responses, cataloging our weaknesses, and, most important, co...
OpenCoffee Leeds {July} [Flickr]
--Imran... posted a photo:
Internet start-ups fail to achieve critical mass [del.icio.us]
--What would it take to make Manchester a hotbed of Web 2.0 talent?
No Babies? - Declining Population in Europe [del.icio.us]
--“These countries are going out of business,...at the end of the 21st century there may still be places on a map called European, but these will mer...
Why Less Is More And How To Unlock the Web [del.icio.us]
--'Create a solid foundation, and let others build a thousand different houses, each catering to a different need, and you’ll never go out of fashion...
Bookmarks:
London Biotopes: Exploring potential City - Body ecologies
Holographic Google Earth...
...Ubiqlabs
Scott Brown on Why He Does Not Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
HAL 9000 and his minions have been war-gaming the robocalypse for years — testing our responses, cataloging our weaknesses, and, most important, conditioning our attitudes with mass roboganda
55 Free High Quality Icon Sets | Graphics | Smashing Magazine
Internet start-ups fail to achieve critical mass
What would it take to make Manchester a hotbed of Web 2.0 talent?
No Babies? - Declining Population in Europe
“These countries are going out of business,...at the end of the 21st century there may still be places on a map called European, but these will merely be designations for real estate.”
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Hi Imran! Welcome to Crowdvine and thank you for contributing so much! Looking forward to meeting you!
