Josh Russell, aka @joshr

Current Project

1. A dashboard for..

   currently in stealth. Leave your email address to hear about future launches first:

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Advising

1. Metranet

   Next generation, 4G, citywide wireless infrastructure.

2. Loose Connection

   One of the UK's earliest commercial free wifi hotspot networks. Famous for creating the first wifi beach.

Community

1. Tuttle Brighton

   Weekly coworking meets for local startups.

2. Hidden People

   Tech and business advice from top industry folk, over coffee, for free.

3. Sussex Digital

   Everything going on in the tech scene in Brighton, UK, and the surrounding area.

4. QR Best Practices

   Wiki documenting research on the usage of QR Codes.

Hacks and Fun

1. ClipStack

   An HTML5 video sharing experiment, bookmark MP4 files and create video podcasts.

2. I CAN HAZ dot COM

   Short urls. With cats.

3. Brighton WiFi

   Crowd-sourced map of wifi hotspots in Brighton.

Open Source

1. OnePageMapSite

   The code behind brightonwifi.com, creates a configurable one page site to display a Google "My Maps" map.

Past Roles

1. User Experience (UX) Evangelist at Microsoft

   Engaging with the UK web and tech industry on emerging MS technologies, as part of the global Developer and Platforms team.

2. Interaction designer and Strategist at Comic Relief

   Conceiving and managing the applications for the core activities of campaigning and fundraising.

3. Founder of Loose Connection (aka Metranet)

   Very early commercial free wifi hotspots, and now deploying next generation infrastructure as Metranet