Archives for October, 2007

links for 2007-10-31

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 ...


links for 2007-10-28

John Naughton: Microsoft makes Facebook a club you don't want to join | Business | The Observer "Pssst ... have I got a deal for you! ...


Never can say goodbye

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 ...


links for 2007-10-25

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)


Silly money

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...


links for 2007-10-24

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 ...


Last week it was 3700 MB or so... That's a mighty fine amount of free (as in lunch) online data storage.


links for 2007-10-23

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 ...


Spooks = CSI Dulwich

According to Phil Williams on BBC Radio Five Live yesterday afternoon. Made me laugh.


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 ...


links for 2007-10-22

Will mashups ever be mass market? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited (tags: technology mashup guardian web2.0) The BBC empire has grown too big. Ahead must lie much ...


links for 2007-10-19

Get the Glass! Brilliantly designed 3D online board game courtesy of the California Milk Processor Board. (tags: game milk gettheglass). HT to Another Paul Home - Involve - ...


I'm on the phone to a well-known supplier of outsourced services... "Please listen carefully to the following options..." There are 7 options, but they don't tell you ...


links for 2007-10-18

"Embedded" Web Fonts Return. Uh-oh. | Typographica "So, due to the professional type designer’s understandable desire to be paid for their work, most websites that will ...


Accountant Articled clerk of a limited company Assurance agent of recognised company Bank/building society official Barrister British Computer Society (BCS) - Professional grades which are Associate (AMBCS), Member (MBCS), Fellow ...


links for 2007-10-17

Microsoft Partners with Atlassian & NewsGator - SharePoint Goes Web 2.0 As Euan says, "Milton Keynes gets a village feel." It's still Milton Keynes underneath though. (tags: enterprise ...


links for 2007-10-15

About - journa-list.com "Have you ever read an article and thought, I'd really like to know more about the journalist who wrote this? Maybe you want to ...


links for 2007-10-12

Intranet 2.0 roles … « Inside out (tags: intranet socialsoftware socialmedia socialnetworking roles) Google 'dominates world search' (tags: google advertising search business)


links for 2007-10-10

Design thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "... design thinking is a creative process based around the 'building up' of ideas. There are no judgments in ...


Yesterday I was due to make a Skype call with a friend in Denmark at 1530 CET. I needed to double-check I'd got the right ...


The intranet: my web at work

It's time to drag the intranet in to the twenty-first century. We need to think of the intranet as the digital workspace, or "my web ...


Accidental pattern #1

Number 63 bus passes number 37.


If you have web apps like travel booking systems or services like discussion forums running on your intranet you already have personalisation. Whether it's any ...


links for 2007-10-01

Here's how I established an effective record-keeping system | Business Link Keep my receipts. Keep my receipts. Keep my receipts. (tags: receipts filing startingup business admin) How to ...


On my Sunday run yesterday morning I suddenly caught myself turning everything I was doing in to Facebook status updates. If you haven't been on Facebook, ...