beta testing facebooks hyperlocal augmented reality:
Met up with some interesting intruiging and exciting peeps last night in Cardiff #cdfblogs meetup with @getgood @hrwaldram @carlmorris @stuherbert @GlynTansley Am excited again about the concept of local online. 
Might even do something like a “secret swansea” facebook group.
Photo by M Guy
…but not really. I met one of the people who taught me photography the other evening (and, by the way, another person who taught me photography is really quite well known now – see his work here). We were talking about digital photography and how it killed the high street camera shop and development labs. That got us talking about the other career killers out there in terms of technology: affordable computing, desktop publishing, WYSIWYG editors, digital printers, blogs. All things I’ve made use of and made money out of, but all of which (apart from the first, maybe) have devalued my expertise in the fields I trained in – print design, web design, photography.
All of which makes technology a bitter-sweet thing for me.
This week I was fortunate enough to see the futurologist Ray Hammond speak. He used to live next door to Steve Jobs dontchaknow. He managed to cover pretty much the whole of life within 45 minutes from the past to the future, the local to the global and the real to the virtual.
He touched on the recession, which is why I’m mentioning him here, and he said a few interesting things:
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Paolo - glorious leader of South Wales web empire Refresh Creative. Paolo also reviews cheap laptops for his other website.
Andy - runs a web consultancy based in the sunny city of Bath. He has been working in the online industry for 13 years. His mission is to get his clients to "improve their business, achieve the results they want and not get suckered into spending money on things they don't need!".
