The iPhone and Android apps Gooii are developing for the Imperial War Museum’s Social Interpretation project, have been featured in The Guardian. To read the full article visit:The Guardian Culture Professionals Blog
Read More30th March 2012
We are proud to announce Gooii are developing an exciting new iPhone and Android app, for the Imperial War Museum’s ‘Social Interpretation’ project. The app, programmed natively for each device, starts with a QR code scanned from within the museum space. Once an object is scanned, information about that artifact is loaded into the handset,…
Read More26th March 2012
Surely the most obvious match since chicken and chips, the SEGfL Birdbox project is now on Twitter! School Birdbox updates will automatically be published to Twitter, live throughout the nesting season. Click here to follow the feed now and catch up with all the lastest from this great project, or visit the Birdbox website at birdbox.segfl.org.uk
Read More15th March 2012
So we didn’t get an iPad 3 afterall, Apple you tease. The “new iPad” suggests more of a 0.5 update much like the iPhone 4S, with the iPad 3 still to come. As usual it’s a brilliant piece of hardware but is it worth upgrading if you already own an iPad? I’m going to approach…
Read More28th November 2011
‘Apps for Children with Special Needs’, or ‘A4CWSN’ as they are often better known, are a community committed to providing parents and educators with more information about Apps for the iPad and other such devices, that can benefit children with special needs in the home and school environment. Veronika Walshe is an administrator for the A4CWSN…
Read More28th November 2011
15 years ago everyone was banging on about “virtual reality”, a phrase that seemed to be applied to anything from enormous monitor wielding headsets, to almost everything interactive. Thankfully the buzzword has been buried with cyberspace, Y2K and Dirty Den but that doesn’t mean the ideals and notions have gone away. Instead, now they’re actually…
Read More23rd November 2011
The early days for any console can be a tricky time for hardware companies. On one hand you have a fantastic and powerful new system but on the other, actual software to play on it can be a little thin on the ground. The PlayStation Vita, Sony’s successor to the PSP, looks to buck this…
Read More10th November 2011
We are very proud to annouce that the National Education Network & E2BN’s ‘Gallery’ website has been short listed for a 2012 BETT Award. The site, designed and programmed by Gooii Nottingham, has been selected in the ‘Digital Collections and Resource Banks’ category, with the winners to be announced January 2012. To view the site…
Read More10th November 2011
Some sites are wrongly suggesting Adobe has abandoned Flash, it hasn’t. What Adobe has announced is they’ll no longer be developing Flash for mobile browsers, which is something very different indeed. Adobe will now be focussing on developing HTML5 software that incorporates all the Flash features we love (and hopefully leaving out the bugs and…
Read More10th November 2011
Scottish universities hold a high proportion of Scotland’s nationally important collections – more than 1.8 million items. The Revealing the Hidden Collections website gives information about all the material through almost 2000 detailed descriptions of collections and an increasing number of records of individual items and collections, making available all records through a single search…
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