An online notebook
Timetric is a Cambridge based startup that, in their own words, is here to help you make sense of data. If you think about it, most of the numbers we come across every day are things like temperatures, prices, rates, volumes: numbers which vary over time. That’s what Timetric focusses on: graphing, tracking and comparing … Keep reading
David’s blog post reminded me that I have been banging on to a lot of people about some vague idea which I’ve been calling ‘non-professionalism’. Basically, non-professionalism is the culture required to work effectively on the social web. If you are professional, then there is a danger that you will be perceived as formal, stuffy … Keep reading
TinyChat is a really cool new service that lets you create simple chatrooms on the fly within your browser. Why is this useful? Well, say you want to get a bunch of people together for a chat, but you don’t know what technology they all have available. Some are on Skype, some not; some are … Keep reading
Computing in the cloud is great: you get to keep all your data somewhere online, which means that you – and anyone you authorise – can get at it wherever you are. But there can be problems. One is of finance – in these somewhat tricky economic timed, companies are burning out, and taking your … Keep reading
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 what your tech needs will be in the future Need to expand to take advantage … Keep reading