links for 2007-10-31 By delicious on 31 October 2007 — 1 min read How to travel with kids | Travel | Guardian Unlimited (tags: travel children families holiday) Saga launches social website for over-50s | Technology | The Guardian (tags: saga socialnetworking silversurfers sagazone) Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday (tags: google opensocial) Business Innovation Factory | Innovation Story Studio | Euan Semple Euan’s talk at BIF... More
links for 2007-10-28 By delicious on 28 October 2007 — 1 min read John Naughton: Microsoft makes Facebook a club you don’t want to join | Business | The Observer “Pssst … have I got a deal for you! Send me a cheque for £10 and I will sell you a 0.000001 per cent interest in NetworkerColumns Ltd, a privately held company which produces copious quantities of mildly... More
Never can say goodbye By Nic Price on 26 October 2007 — 1 min read Have you noticed that on the radio very few, if any, presenters and guests say “goodbye” at the end of an interview or phone call? More often than not they say “thank you” instead. I was just wondering if this is conscious and deliberate. More
links for 2007-10-25 By delicious on 25 October 2007 — 1 min read Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. “The $240 million is a minority stake that values the company at $15 billion.” (tags: facebook sillymoney microsoft techcrunch) More
Silly money By Nic Price on 24 October 2007 — 1 min read From TechCrunch: Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. The $240 million is a minority stake that values the company at $15 billion. Uh oh… More
links for 2007-10-24 By delicious on 24 October 2007 — 1 min read WordPress makes a stand for open source morality | Technology | The Guardian (tags: guardian opensource wordpress toread blogging) LearningWiki – Learning 2007 Wiki (tags: learning2007 masie learning wiki 2007) nigelpaine.com – Blog – Live Blog from Learning 2007 Nigel Paine is blogging from Learning2007. (tags: learning2007 learning 2007 nigelpaine masie) Main Page – AskWiki... More
Size of Google Mail box is now 4358 MB and growing By Nic Price on 24 October 2007 — 1 min read Last week it was 3700 MB or so… That’s a mighty fine amount of free (as in lunch) online data storage. More
links for 2007-10-23 By delicious on 23 October 2007 — 1 min read BBC – Programmes “bbc.co.uk/programmes provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC.” Much needed – a web page for every programme on the BBC. (tags: BBC programmes content web) Google takes Docs on the road | The Register (tags: google docs theregister) Google mobile products UK version (tags: google mobile) More
Spooks = CSI Dulwich By Nic Price on 23 October 2007 — 1 min read According to Phil Williams on BBC Radio Five Live yesterday afternoon. Made me laugh. More
Where did escalator etiquette come from? By Nic Price on 23 October 2007 — 1 min read Do you stand on the right on the escalator in John Lewis or your local shopping mall? Did “Please stand on the right” originate on the London Underground? Like Pavlov’s dog, we’ve been gradually conditioned to do this. And why is it the opposite to our roads in the UK, where we drive on the... More