Death of the filesystem
From Jan Senderek, the founder of Loom, a photo management startup: Kids today who start out with iPads and iPhones will never or rarely be in touch with a file or a folder. They won’t care about the type of data…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Toe and HTTPS | Electronic Frontier Foundation The Dark Side of E-Books To the internet giants, you’re not a customer. You’re just another user – by @jjn1 meandering thoughts on the…
The internet’s three virtues
According to Doc Searls and David Weinberger: No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it. From World of Ends.
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Home – Lincoln Matrix Richard Stallman: My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs “My favorite programming language:” Google’s Go has some coders raving | Ars Technica David Wilcox »…
Replacing Google Reader: and the winner is…
…NewsBlur. Why did I choose NewsBlur? To be honest I don’t really know – it’s just that, after a little time of using it, NewBlur just felt right. A few of the options that emerged once Google announced the closure…
How in-the-browser software should work
I wrote recently about my growing unease with the addiction we have with ever greater convenience with our computing over the necessity of control. A lot of this is driven by cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). The convenience of SaaS is…
Loomio
Loomio looks like a neat tool for groups to discuss a topic and to come to decisions. Often online discussions just go nowhere and don’t result in specific actions. Maybe this is a solution to that problem? Here’s a video.
Dumb Store
Apparently, not everyone has a smartphone! News to me. Anyway, the Dumb Store is potentially very exciting, I think. Apps for ‘dumb’ phones – ie those that have limited ability to access the internet and the web. They can be…
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: John Lanchester: Google Glass Opinionated Infrastructure: ‘Pon the Floor, Impact, MobileFirst and Zend More information on Networked Councillor “We Want More”… Introducing Learning Pool Encore! Opening up Intranet WordPress theme now…
New successful digital engagement course open for registration
Our first successful digital engagement course is up and running and going great guns. In fact, I’ve already had a few people asking when the next one is going to be. So, am happy to provide an answer! We’ll be running…