Orchid Project

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/twitter-arab-spring-tweeter.html Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Lecturer (Roberts Fellow), Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ t: +44 (0) 2380599309 w: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sdr

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2013/03/24094.html Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Lecturer (Roberts Fellow), Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ t: +44 (0) 2380599309 w: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sdr

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/03/23/174956817/the-cicadas-are-coming-crowdsourcing-an-underground-movement Sent from my iPhone

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/15/esa-crowdsource-drones

Call it ‘Crowdsourced VPN’…. it will be hard to track where people are logging in from in future! (a challenge for cyber security + provenance) http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/031313-users-flock-to-japan-student39s-267650.html Gopal

Alex Rogers and his team will be running a ‘Hunt the Cicada’ game at the Garden Court today (from 10:30-16:00): http://www.southampton.ac.uk/schoolsandcolleges/scienceweek/scienceday.html Gopal

An interesting article on how well rescuers worked with robots in disaster situations. https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0hxrqq685qbvp5/Robot%20to%20human.pdf

According to analysts from the global investment banking giant UBS, the arrival of socket parity – where the cost of installing solar is cheaper than grid-sourced supplies – is about to cause a boom in un-subsidised solar installation in Europe, and the energy market may never be quite the same again. http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/ubs-boom-in-unsubsidised-solar-pv-flags-energy-revolution-60218

If you haven’t tried out MyJoulo yet, give it a go. We’ve had 650 users so far, and are currently doing a trial with DECC using three loggers per home. Follow us on Twitter at @myjoulo. On Monday we put another 120 loggers into the loop, so if you register this weekend, you’ll probably get your logger […]

Seems they have implemented a few features we haven’t (ongoing monitoring, notifications), but this lacks the ability to take into account actual home energy data  http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub