Sunday, 21 December, 2008

Wednesday, 17 December, 2008

Cloudcamb notes

Here are the notes I mananged to make at CloudCamb, which was organised jolly well by Matt Wood (MZA on twitter). Simone Brunozzi, Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services (simon on twitter) Cloud computing helps answer the ‘prediction problem’ – knowing…

The Social Media Exchange

The Social Media Exchange is an event being organised by Jude Habib of Sound Delivery, and is happening on 26 January at the Resource Centre on Holloway Road in London. You can find out more by downloading this PDF. According…

5 Different uses for RSS

RSS is a great technology, one of those that underpins the new usefulness of the web. It’s a simple way of keeping in touch with what is happening in lots of different places, without having to keep visiting lots of…

Tuesday, 16 December, 2008

Slideshare Powerpoint plugin

This is a useful gadget for anyone who likes sharing their Powerpoint decks using Slideshare. It adds a button to Powerpoint 2007 (just Windows at the moment, though a Mac version is coming, apparently) which automatically uploads to Slideshare, without…

Barcamp-Teacamp this Thursday (18/12/08)

Teacamps are the rather British regular get togethers for people interested in cool webby stuff in government. They take place every other Thursday at the House of Fraser cafe on Victoria Street. Turnout has been a little disappointing of late,…

Web based or desktop?

Just recently, I have stopped using the WordPress inbuilt editor, which runs in the web browser, and have started using MarsEdit – a piece of desktop software I have previously been rather unkind about – to write my blog posts.…

Monday, 15 December, 2008

Bookmarks for December 7th through December 15th

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 7th through December 15th: World Economic Forum launches social media initiative | Media | guardian.co.uk – The World Economic Forum has launched a number of new several social media tools and is inviting web…

Video hosting services

Whilst beavering away this week in Stockholm on Cisco08, I had a chance to play with a few different video hosting services, namely YouTube, Vimeo and Blip. Here’s what I found: YouTube YouTube was the default choice for me going…

We are all networked learners

More great stuff from David Wilcox musing on the experience of social reporting in Portugal. Whilst there, he was lucky enough to come across Etienne Wenger, a highly regarded thinker in the field of knowledge management and learning, who I…

Vista, innit

I have just got my new Vista PC up and running. When I announced that I was going to buy such a thing in my Facebook status, it caused something of a reaction: Since getting it set up, I have…

Sunday, 14 December, 2008

Gmail gets better with labs

If you are a Gmail user, you’ll be used to the many benefits that this webmail service provides, like massive storage, great search, powerful filtering and labelling of email, inbuilt instant messaging and voice calls over IP, and the ability…

Saturday, 13 December, 2008

On Social Reporting

David Wilcox, the godfather of the social reporting concept, has written up his reflections from a couple of days spent at an event in Portugal: What was unusual, in my experience, was that we had the benefit of a three…

Thursday, 11 December, 2008

Cloudcamb, 17th December 2008

This is why I moved to Cambridge – stuff like CloudCamb happening on your doorstep: All are invited to attend the first Amazon Web Services user group in Cambridge, on Wednesday 17th December. Learn more about getting started from the…

WordPress 2.7 released

Big day for a WordPress fanboy like me – the latest version of the open source publishing platform has been released, with a much updated administration area amongst other innovations. Here is a video explaining some of the changes: I’d…

Wednesday, 10 December, 2008

Charles Leadbeater at Cisco08

I’ve already posted this to the Cisco08 blog, but thought maybe some folk here would be interested in Charles Leadbeater’s talk at Cisco’s Public Sector Summit in Stockholm today: I just used a Flip Ultra to record, and so the…

Tuesday, 9 December, 2008

Latest from Stockholm

After the sheer audio/visual genius of the previous two efforts in my video diary chronicling my trip to Sweden, I thought I would do another one. As a bonus, there is another Swedish Confectionary Review at the end. I decided…

Big screens for events

The Cisco08.com site is being displayed all around the Clarion Hotel here in Stockholm on big displays: This is a great way of letting people know that the content is there, and it has attracted quite a lot interest amongst…

Monday, 8 December, 2008

Travelling to Sweden

I have been rather enjoying myself on my trip to Sweden today, even after a very short night’s sleep in the world’s smallest hotel room. I kind of even enjoyed waiting for a bus at 4.25am under Heathrow’s terminal 4:…