December 2007
71 posts
@digitalvillages I reckon 2008 is the year of open social networks: profiles and social graph not controlled by any one organisation
Planning the world trip: Sep 08 - Dec 08: Asia and south pacific; Jan 09 - Mar 09 - South and central America; April 09 - Sept 09 San Fran.
doing some DIY around the flat and not doing a very good job of it as usual
sorting out music for DJ set tonight
Big congrats to @willmcinnes and @jennilloyd for the project sign-up. Ending the year on a big high!
lols @joshr’s last tweet. Did you get kicked out of office mid-post mate?! :)
Turning Microsoft's business model on its head →
This is a fascinating article from the New York Times. It’s all about how Google is challenging Microsoft by turning its business model on its head - the switch from licensing software that’s installed on desktop computers, to free web-based software. Microsoft changed the software business for ever by being the upstart that challenged the old mainframe model and replaced it with the...
experimenting with the twitter track feature http://tinyurl.com/yoj3p5
Progress on all fronts today. Fingers crossed for @willmcinnes
working on an interesting social bookmarking widget idea. cool, but scary timescales. arrgh!
today: working on internal systems; director hiring; business development
links for 2007-12-19 →
Amazon Helping To Change The Business Of Music A good round-up of how the music industry is finally starting to wake up to the implications of a distribution price that’s heading fast towards zero. (tags: music free)
Facebook won't be evil (probably) - Zuckerberg →
From Bobbie Johnson’s Web 2.0 Summit blog post. John Battelle: “Would you endorse the maxim ‘Don’t be evil’?” Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO): “We probably would.” Wow, if there was ever an answer that doesn’t need the word ‘probably’ in it. It’s almost like he needed to think hard about it. Looks like Umair is right.
All this talk of curry is making me REALLY hungry. So, off for a curry then.
Amazon Helping To Change The Business Of Music →
A good round-up of how the music industry is finally starting to wake up to the implications of a distribution price that’s heading fast towards zero.
Wondering if it’s time for Twitter to drop the ‘what are you doing?’ prompt http://tinyurl.com/yuyvb3
Should Twitter drop the 'what are you doing'... →
Looking at my Twitter feed, there’s a lot more in there than just status updates of people saying what they’re doing. I’d say that at least two thirds of the posts are either conversation or micro blog posts (opinions; links; updates from Seesmic and other sources.) So in the majority of cases, the ‘what are you doing?’ prompt isn’t relevant, and a status...
@thayer are you going to blog your thoughts of seesmic somewhere?
arrgh, get some AJAX please djdownload!! don’t make me refresh the page each time i uncheck an item in my basket. 28 to go. *sigh*
So happy to have my decks up and running again! Having a rummage through http://www.djdownload.com
“Forgive me for being an old fart, but today’s “social networks” look to me like...”
– Doc Searls Weblog · The only real social networks are personal ones
SCIP board meeting then xmas lunch
links for 2007-12-17 →
digital-telepathy, Inc. Our Projects – Business Strategy, Web App Design, Innovative Marketing (tags: agency)
The economics of FREE →
Some Monday inspiration: In this video, Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail) walks us through the new possibilities offered to us by falling costs of technology. Found via Guy Kawasaki.
Russell Davies' widgety goodness →
The stand-out presentation for me at Widgety Goodness this year was Russell Davies. He doesn’t claim to be a widget expert, but his talk was fascinating, inspiring and at time hilarious. Russell has just turned his presentation into four blog posts. It’s a must-see for anyone working in marketing. Check it out:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Great use of Let Them Sing It For...
digital-telepathy, Inc. Our Projects – Business... →
links for 2007-12-16 →
Thoughts on the beta of the BBC’s site redesign @ Nixon McInnes: Social media goodness. Translated. Created. Delivered. (tags: bbc design widget atomisation)
Thoughts on the beta of the BBC’s site redesign @... →
Thinking the BBC’s new homepage should be more open http://tinyurl.com/2y34pa
Could a web agency work a 4 day week? →
At the Future of Web Apps conference this year, Will and I were chatting to Ryan Carson about company culture and working practices. Ryan couldn’t believe that we have open book accounting (everyone knows what everyone else earns and has full access to the company’s books) and I was equally in awe of the 4-day working week that Ryan’s managed to implement at Carsonified. So this...
links for 2007-12-14 →
russell davies: conference advice some good suggestions for conferences to go to next year (tags: conference)
russell davies: conference advice →
some good suggestions for conferences to go to next year
Heading to Bills for brekkie and a strategy chat with Pete Burden
@jemimakiss if you use wordpress, it auto-saves your work regularly. quite clever for a browser-based editor.
@jennilloyd I know you can pull it off. And the work really is worth that much. good luck convincing the client tomorrrow :)
Facebook to license its platform as an alternative... →
A month after Google released OpenSocial – its API for developing applications that work across multiple social networks - Facebook is now inviting other social networks to license its platform architecture so that they too can allow 3rd party developers to build applications within their networks. From the perspective of application developers, this is a similar deal to OpenSocial: They can write...
Back in Brighton. working from home for the rest of the day. on the mobile if you need me
Just had a crash course in the online gambling industry. Widget opportunities a-plenty
Zipping around london today, some free time this arvo if anyone wants to meet up.
links for 2007-12-12 →
Pantheon Software Management - Confluence (tags: jira consultant)
Pantheon Software Management - Confluence →
What a gorgeous sunny day
links for 2007-12-11 →
Umair Haque on Andrew Keen An excellent slap-down of web 2.0 naysayer, Andrew Keen (tags: music edgeconomy business umairhaque)
Umair Haque on Andrew Keen →
An excellent slap-down of web 2.0 naysayer, Andrew Keen
Heading to london for the lemon studios / e-consultancy xmas do
Preparing for a meeting with UK Sport. Went for a run this morning so feeling qualified for it.
going for a quick swim then in the office for meetings from 10:00
buying xmas pressies online. gawd bless ebay and price comparison shopping
firing off a dopplr invite to @willmcinnes
a good sunday: nicely exercised and now cooking the mother of all sunday roasts