Comments on: Teenagers show UK Govt how web/mobile services should be done

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Set our Data Free and Create a (Digital) Economy | redcatco blog — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:03:55 +0000

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By: Jon Mobile

Jon Mobile — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:10:45 +0000

I think the bus thing could be pretty useful. I mean you could hang out at your mate’s house/the pub and not bother getting up for the bus if you know already that it’s not coming on time. You could arrive at the stop at nearly the same time as the bus instead of waiting around in the cold.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:42:34 +0000

I think people are slightly missinterpreting what I said.

Personally, I think it’s great that 15-18 year olds can bash together useful projects in a short space of time – they have an exceptionally bright future.

My comment was more focused on the style of OTT journalism that typically crops up when ever a story involves children and original thought.

I’m just being a miserable old git, please ignore me!

By: Denny

Denny — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:20:54 +0000

Did you read the bus app description? It’s not a time-table, it’s live service status updates. I can think of at least three people in my extended online connection group who’ve mentioned wanting such a thing (in blog posts/comments or twitter/facebook statuses) in the last month or two alone.

Perhaps you don’t rely on London buses for your commute?

By: Bryant

Bryant — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:53:44 +0000

Oh – forgot to say, you’d be surprised how important children are to parents

It was a great weekend – thanks to everyone who organised it!

By: Bryant

Bryant — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:49:36 +0000

Mike,

I’d like to reiterate (Stephen beat me to it) that when these ideas were thought up we were simply attempting to come up with something interesting, vaguely original and data-related, rather than something to make us rich.

In addition, please bear in mind most of the apps on show were hacked together in a great rush in two days, often mostly put together by two or three coders (in our group’s case, ‘will work for peanuts’, the whole PHP/MySQL backend was “managed” by myself) owing to the large variety of talent, meaning most were mere proof-of-concepts which can be scaled up to cover a broader spectrum of applications. The school route idea may seem ridiculously esoteric / niche to you, but with a sufficient data source it can be scaled up to plan routes around other forms of undesirable events; what I’m essentially saying is I don’t think you appreciate the scalability of some of the hacks created.

Anyways, it would have been nice for me not to have had to defend myself and others for trying to come up with good ideas.

Bryant

By: Stephen Mount

Stephen Mount — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:28:41 +0000

Mike,

I understand where you’re coming from as you’ve picked up as a “start-up” as a commercial entity. None of the hack teams were considering monetising them and/or turning them into a commercial service them because at the end of the day the point in the event is that tried to make government data presentable and to show the government where government data was lacking.

Stephen.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:01:24 +0000

When you were at school were you ever ridiculed because you didn’t come up with a million-dollar idea?

Cut them some slack, eh?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:23:14 +0000

“…Rewired State probably saw the birth of five or more successful startups of the future…”

Start-ups of the future? Yeah, right… because there is just a HUGE market for searching out the school route that is least likely to result in a stabbing… And I’m sure Google are just beating down the door to buy a bus time tables app.

Care to explain how ANY of the above mentioned ‘hacks’ are “…easily monetized …” ???

*shakes head*