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Dad just received news he’s in the Street or Studio Tate Modern competition. He was in a group of 100 out of 2600 submissions which is pretty cool! His shot is of a fishmonger in Shanghai sleeping in her fish-bowl. Click the image on the left or click here to view it.

The 100 winners are viewable here. His other submission is here. My submissions were this and this. The views went up slightly on the first one during judging so I was hopeful, but obviously Dad pushed me out of the competition - I’m not jealous at all ;)

Photosynth (a cool Microsoft Labs product which stiches collections of photos together in a 3D panorama) have recently opened up to allow people to submit their own content. I just uploaded a series of photos from Djemaa el Fna at dusk from a restaurant balcony (see video of the square at night in a previous post) - it took a few attempts to get 100% of the photos stitched together (it does it automatically but some photos don’t always match up - you have to edit your submission, remove the images and reupload).

The final result is pretty cool. I think it gives a really good feel for the square and the people in it. To view it click here.

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I took loads of photos in Morocco so it will take a while before they are ready to put up on this site. However, in the meantime, here’s a video I took using Lydia’s camera while in the Djemaa El Fna square in Marrakech. The square is amazing - by day its full of orange juice vendors, snake charmers and henna tattoo artists, but at dusk, the smoke starts rising and the drums start drumming and it becomes alive. Its amazing to watch and experience, and hopefully the video gives a tiny hint of that. For more on the square, go here.

Beam Mobile got into the Broadcast Magazine today. There’s a few good soundbites from Mikey who is one of our developers, including, “This is a fundamental shift in how content is accessed”.

Unfortunately I was away in holiday so didn’t get interviewed for it. Its nice to see a mobile and not just an iPhone focus on the article though.

The article is here, and the print version goes into this week’s publication.