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How London Black Cabbie are using Social Media and Data to improve their own performance

22ND NOVEMBER 2011

You all know that Black Cab Drivers have a lot to say for themselves, right?  Well, a private Twitter account has been giving drivers the chance to tell each other what is going on around the Capital, and has helped turn an idea hatched by ...

Measuring Happiness and Well-being

8TH NOVEMBER 2011

In November 2010, the Prime Minister asked the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to develop measures of general well-being ...

London Fire Brigade to set Twittersphere alight with Bonfire Night tweets

4TH NOVEMBER 2011

This Saturday London Fire Brigade is set to hold the world’s first live Bonfire Night twitterthon (@LondonFire <http://twitter.com/londonfire> ). You may be wondering why; well, the answer is simple ...

Transport Museum Goes Digital

12TH OCTOBER 2011

Transport Museum Goes Digital for Thought Provoking Event Sense and The City

Our friends in the London Transport Museum wanted us to flag this event. On Monday evening 17th October the digital ...

Open Data in Ireland - where are we now?

20TH SEPTEMBER 2011

Fingal Open Data was launched 10 months ago today and became the first Open Data website in the Republic of Ireland.

At the time of the launch we looked forward to our site being joined by many more ...

London gets real-time bus information... at last!

12TH SEPTEMBER 2011

In one of the most significant new data releases of the year, London Buses have this week released live bus departure information for every stop in London on countdown.tfl.gov.uk. This is a beta service to ...

A Lobbying Opportunity for Digital Agencies

3RD AUGUST 2011

During the process of creating and developing an online community of Creative Agencies, as we have recently at http://siliconjunction.co.uk/, we find ourselves frequently presented with new opportunities ...

The Place Station

6TH JULY 2011

People living and working across the capital have fantastic ideas about how to transform their neighbourhoods through social enterprise, but often don’t know where to start when it comes to identifying the premises and support that they ...

Opening Up London's Environmental Data

6TH JULY 2011

Today marks the publication on the London Datastore of an unprecedented amount of information detailing the state of London's environment, published as

A New Standard Open Data Format for Public Toilets

5TH JULY 2011

The London Assembly has produced a new tool to help improve the availability of data on public toilets, and we would welcome your views.