If we stopped all web access at work (excepting email and company sites) would productivity go up or down?
Children’s Tales
At work, a few of the team have children and recently they’ve hit the web generation gap. The team all remember LBW, Life Before Web, and have embraced the new world to various degrees. Not so the kids – they know nothing else. Two dads in the team have recently come in with tales of […]
4 Generations
4 Generations Originally uploaded by RachelC. A family gathering – 4 generations of the family, with the youngest being 2 week old Joshua. He’s the first boy born in the direct family for 60 years. My mother immeidately wished she’d cleaned up – but this is what you get with a 5 year old and […]
Global Flyer Tracking
Joaquin from Metal Toad Media added a comment about a movie version of the trip tracker from Global Flyer’s recent flight…fast fast run through of the trip. (but needs a slow down button…the countries zoom past very quickly).
Guinness Great Britain Starts Blogging
Disclaimer: I still work for this company (but only for the next 2 weeks…) so this is little bit of an ad for a site, but thought it would be interesting to share some of the process behind the scenes and the challenges of digital marketing in an alcohol company. Over at guinnessblog.co.uk you’ll find […]
Women In Technology Network
Last night I attended a networking event run by Women In Technology, with the topic of Flexibility in the workplace. There were 2 very different keynote speakers, a panel debate and then a chance to eat and drink and chat. Eileen Brown was up first, talking about how technology helps her be flexibile in the […]
Microsoft Office Stickers
Talking about Microsoft (well, sort of) they had a particularly lame attempt yesterday at marketing the new Office Suite in Waterloo Station. The station has been decked out in banners and posters and great big floor stickers with the Dinosaur campaign all over it. (It’s big in the papers as well) And to bring this […]
Scoble and the Brrreeeport
Scoble’s test of blog Search Engines is now giving 235 posts on Technorati with the made up word in and has driven the search to the top of Technorati’s list. Interesting word – I have to check the spelling everytime I try and write it. – of course, it means that’s probably the only word […]
Measuremap bought by Google
Measuremap, my favourite blog measurement tool, has been sold to Google. No longer does the screen proclaim it’s being bought to you by Adapative Path, it’s Google all the way. The email from Jeff Veen talking about the aquisition promises good things to come: : I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been […]
Women in Technology
I;ve read two great posts this week on Women in Technology.http://giagia.blogspot.com/2006/02/modelling-or-whoring-atoms-one-thing.html The first, from Gia, addresses her feelings after watching Anina at Lift06. She was not impressed, feeling that Anina was there because of being a model: I’m genuinely glad that Anina is excited about “technology”, but can’t we as people who are involved with […]
Feedburner Announcement
Feedflare…announcing an API to “extend the usefulness and reach of your syndicated content by integrating third party web services and offering them as linked actions users can take when viewing feed content, wherever it is displayed ” feedburner.com
Future of Web Apps – Ryan Carson
How to Build an Enterprise Web App on a Budget Ryan Carson – DropSend Definitely the most practicaal – reall figures and good advice. Why it’s important What’s the big deal? you don;t have to be big anymore…this has changed the landscape Why now – broadband; people are comformatble with web apps. They provide ‘common […]
Future of Web Apps – Shaun Inman
Shaun Inman : 10 Reasons Why You Need to Build an API still no spelling – it may be tidied later mint.com What is an API: a documented means of interacting from one application to another. A successful one obscures the storage format and the retrieval process Don’t change it – people rely on and […]
Future of Web Apps – Ruby on Rails
David Heinemeier Hansson – Happy Programming with Ruby on Rails. Still my typing sucks! Introducing a Silver bullet…MOTIVATION motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor (this falls into the No Shit Sherlock statements…but it’s too easily forgotten) Motivation comes from happiness. SO you need to optimise your tools for happiness. Beautiful […]
Future of Web Apps – Tom Coates
Tom Coates: Designing Web 2.0-native Products for Fun and Profit Update: The Presentation can be found on plasticbag.org – which sort of makes these notes redundant. This was one of the most enjoyable presentations of the day. Despite Tom commenting on the URC channel through the previous 2 that all his ideas had gone, the […]
Future of Web Apps: Flickr
Cal Henderson – Flickr 10 reasons to love web2.0 Flickr – Awsome Web2.0 – kinda awesome Birthday – in SanFran on Friday. they’re 2 Passionate users are important…they care about building Flickr – gets people to like it. They need to get people to care about it by caring themselves. Difference btw what users want […]
Future of Web Apps – Delicious Things we’ve learnt
I’m sitting here with about 800 other people at the Carson Workshops summit on the Future of Web Apps. This will be a bad attempt to take notes – unedited or spellchcked Joshua Schachter = things we’ve learnt. Browsers – browser compatibility issues drives you nuts. Header issues cause pain. Scaling: don’t do it! Whatever […]
Win a year’s commute
Passenger Focus, the ‘independent rail consumer watchdog’ is running a competition where the prize is a annual season ticket plus the honour of doing a fortnightly blog for their website, talking about the travelling experience. I’m not sure at all I’d like to be called a ‘consumer’ of rail services – I prefer passenger or […]
ORG Networking Event
Went along to the second networking event from the Open Rights Group. Firstly, Cory Doctorow talked about copyright and the various changes that are being pushed for from media companies; secondly Phil Booth talked about the campaign against the UK ID card, which comes back to the Commons on Monday. Tom Morris has done a […]
Ultimate Flight
Last year, Steve Fossett made the first solo non-stop flight around the world. This year, he tries to go one better by attempting the longest flight ever made – targetting 26,000 miles, 3000 miles more than last year. The plane carries 18,000 lbs of fuel and needs 10,000 ft to take off, so it’s using […]