Aden Forshaw – AI, Data, and API enthusiast.
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Back to the Future on Stage: A Surprisingly Brilliant Sydney Show
I finally saw Back to the Future: The Musical in Sydney, and it delivered far more than I expected. I went in just hoping for a fun nostalgia hit, but the production quality is well beyond that. The sets and special effects are outrageous in the best way. The DeLorean moments, especially, are the kind…
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Parkrun Volunteering
I spent this Saturday morning on the other side of Parkrun – volunteering instead of running. I try to do this every six runs or so as a small way of giving back. The event doesn’t magically appear at 7am every week – it only happens because a bunch of half-awake people in hi-vis vests…
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I absolutely adore HomeAssistant
My home already had a stack of Beelink mini pcs running my home lab, flipping one to a dedicated HoemAssitant box has been the best decision home IoT decision in recent years. Pairing it with a old tablet for custom views has been key to getting buy-in from other people. These can be easily mounted…
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My post about an Ad supported Uber – could you get a free ride?
I’ve always thought it odd that you can’t tip an uber driver in-app, sure you can give them cash — but who carries that around anymore? I get that they want a friction free experience, but maybe there’s a way to have both. Use the money from you watching Ads on the journey to: 1.…
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Auction theory – reverse auction example
As part of building next generation of adtech marketplaces i try and find & use as many different marketplaces as possible in other industries to see what lessons can be learned from the mechanics, and how it’s users behave. This time it’s home moving platform Anyvan! AnyVan is a reverse auction platform allowing people…
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Video Ad Tech 2016 Predictions!
There’s a rising tide in Ad spend, upcoming US election, Rio Olympics, European football, users demanding more respect, and new wave of premium inventory coming through – it’s going to be a busy year! Here’s what I hope or expect will happen in video ad tech. Rise of Ad-Supported-VOD (AVOD) over Subscription-VOD (SVOD) like Netflix,…
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Smarter Coffee machine + Raspberry Pi = IoT coffeetime
The wifi coffee machine by smarter coffee is not a secure device. It can’t be allowed to connect to your main router, but it needs to be controlled by a group remotely …plus it’s fun to play around with right? Solution: Connect it to a satellite router with only a RaspberryPi for company. This satellite…
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Talking HTML5 Ads with Ciaran at Exchangewire
Currently the Chrome beta has a setting enabled by default to pause any non-essential (embeds smaller than 530 pixels wide) of Flash movies on a page. Their plan is to make this default in Chrome 45 in Sept when it auto-updates the default Chrome browser. This video discusses the problems this will cause for the…
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Is Ad-blocking the next Adpocalypse?
What’s going on? Viewability is the zeitgeist inside the industry, outside it’s all about Ad-blocking. On desktop there’s very little friction to installing an Adblocker. On mobile there is still friction to root or sideload, but with iOS9 adding new blocking support mobile will grow massively. Google still make it hard to do with Chrome…
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Location based social apps
They’re all bullshit. You read an article, get interested in one, install it, find out none of your friends or anyone nearby is using it, and uninstall it a week later. Why have none of them thought about solving this issue that every single one of them has. MAKE IT AN EVENT! I’m not talking…
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