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Makemedia win Best Visualisation Application award

Makemedia are happy to be finishing 2009 with another award!

Having won the Business Growth Award at Brighton and Hove Business Awards just a few months ago, last night we were celebrating after being awarded the Presagis Best Visualisation Application Award at the worlds largest simulation, training and education conference – I/ITSEC, in Orlando Florida.

Presagis, who provide off the shelf VR & simulation software, recognised Makemedia for the fantastic 3D work the team have been producing recently. Quoting the Presagis website, 

The company [Makemedia] is recognized for pushing the boundaries of innovation to create a highly realistic training environment for construction project managers“.

Check out the case study that won us the award here.

Here’s looking forward to more great work in 2010!

Makemedia at the Brighton and Hove Business Awards

Makemedia at the Brighton and Hove Business Awards

Makemedia launch www.writing-skills.com

Makemedia is proud to announce the launch of the new website www.writing-skills.com. Emphasis is a specialist business-writing consultancy that trains clients to write clearly and effectively.

The main objective of the new site is to promote the company as a high-quality resource for business writing and training. It does this effectively with its clean, professional and approachable design.

A key information channel for the site is the Resources section. The site aims to build an online community for people needing help with their business writing.

Fully supported and managed through our CMS, the Resources section contains a fantastic selection of up-to-the minute podcasts and blogs, a regular tips bulletin and an advice forum. If you could benefit from some business-writing advice, I suggest you drop by and get involved!

To find out more visit the site at www.writing-skills.com

Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics

I was scouting round on New Scientist when I came across this interesting article about prototype technology that embeds a display device into a contact lens!

“One of the limitations of current head-up displays is their limited field of view. A contact lens display can have a much wider field of view. “Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m away,” says Parviz.”

Cool stuff! Read the original here

Makemedia launch Insurance Buyers Guide

Makemedia are pleased to announce a recent site launch – Insurance Buyers Guide. Insurance Buyers Guide (affectionately known as IBG) is a classified advert site aimed specifically at the Insurance Broker market. Avoiding the consumer insurance market, the founding principle of IBG is to provide a highly cost effective resource through which brokers can publish and search for insurance products.

The recently launched site is actually the second version, Makemedia originally designed and developed the site in 2005 as a proof of concept to evaluate the potential for such a service. Originally designed to provide a searchable list of insurance products along with a contact directory, the site was so successful that IBG asked Makemedia to evolve the brand and extend the functionality.

Relaunched in September 2009, IBG now boasts insurance product listings, job listings, contact directory listings, an insurance terminology library and a categorised directory of insurance companies.

In order to search the site all users must register as either a broker or advertiser. Registration is free, but advertisers pay for each advert they place. Along with all the site search, listings and registration, Makemedia provided a complete account section for all brokers and advertisers, which is all underpinned by our easy to use Content Management System – YourCMS.

To find out more, why not visit the site at www.insurancebuyersguide.co.uk

Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts

Scientists are developing new ‘sentiment analysis tools’ to mine the increasing mountain of data being generated by Social Media sites. By using such tools companies can benefit by gaining direct feedback from customers that would otherwise be lost in the ether, interesting…

“An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored frontiers: translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data.”

“This is more than just an interesting programming exercise. For many businesses, online opinion has turned into a kind of virtual currency that can make or break a product in the marketplace.”

Read the original here

Microsoft Taps Wolfram to Make Bing Geekier Than Google

Rumour has it that Microsoft is harnessing the power of the still-in-alpha knowledge engine “Wolfram” for its own search services. This could result in some very geeky search results!

Read the original here

Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

So Microsoft are embracing the new HTML 5 standard, from what I’ve seen HTML 5 has some great new features i’m looking forward to testing:

After leaving much of the creation of a new version of HTML to Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla, Microsoft has begun sinking its teeth into the Web standard.

“As part of our planning for future work, the IE team is reviewing the current editor’s draft of the HTML5 spec and gathering our thoughts. We want to share our feedback and discuss this in the working group,” said Internet Explorer Program Manager Adrian Bateman in the message. “I will post our notes as we collect them so we can iterate on our thinking more quickly. At this stage we have more questions than answers, but I believe that discussing them in public is the best way to make progress.”

Read the original Here

Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration

This article struck me as interesting becuase the concept is not that new. I’ll be interested to see how it gains traction over the next couple of years.

“Normally, virtual worlds are the setting of many online games and entertainment applications, but now they’re becoming a place for scientific collaboration and outreach, as well…..the organization conducts professional seminars and popular lectures, among other events, for its growing membership.”

Read the orginal here…http://www.physorg.com/news168608901.html

Touchable holograms!

Cool! Cant wait to see this in action for real!

“Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed 3D holograms that can be touched with bare hands.”

Read the orginal here… http://www.physorg.com/news168797748.html