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March 2007 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2007-03-30
Everything Good is Bad For You (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) (tags: culture attention)... read full post
links for 2007-03-29
Socialtext goes virtual (tags: socialtext vm virtualisation hosting) More thoughts on Amazon Web Services EC2 and S3 - O'Reilly Conferences (tags: amazon ec2 s3 hosting)... read full post
links for 2007-03-28
Keynote: Amazon Web Services: Building a "Web-Scale Computing" Architecture to Meet the Variable Demands of Today's Business (tags: amazone aws ec2 s3 hosting saas) London Bridge Bluetooth lights (tags: headshift towerbridge londonbrudge sensors) 30 (beautiful) One Page Websites (tags:... read full post
links for 2007-03-27
Visual Scrapers (tags: software tools) Why the Citizendium Will (Probably) Succeed (tags: wiki wikipedia participation) Atlassian News: BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs: Atlassian's Mike and Scott (tags: atlassian awards vc) Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans - New... read full post
links for 2007-03-26
Press Release: Attensa Introduces First Enterprise RSS Reader to Rank Important Articles Based on User Interest and Attention (tags: rss attensa outlook attention) Zimbra Desktop Launched - Growing Trend of Offline Access to Web Apps (tags: zimbra ajax email... read full post
links for 2007-03-25
Nabaztag in Second Life (tags: nabaztag secondlife ambientinformation) Intelligent online task management | Smartsheet.com (tags: smartsheet saas software projectmanagement) Accelerating change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: change culture future)... read full post
links for 2007-03-24
AIIM E-DOC Magazine - Enterprise Content Management at Work! (tags: wikis socialsoftware collaboration) Learning Movable Type is Reborn (tags: blogs blogging learning mt 6apart) Zoli's Blog :: Do We Need Another Web Meeting App? (tags: meeting software tools) Becta... read full post
Social tools and creativity in education
How can social tools empower students and teachers to learn by discovery and experimentation? It is about connections, not 'content', and it needs to be children-led, argues this chapter I wrote for the BECTA Emerging Technologies publication. read full post
links for 2007-03-23
This News Corp/NBC Thing (tags: video youtube tv) OpenID in open and closed environments (tags: open id identity) IBM forms developer sharing marketplace and gets a 2nd life (tags: ibm web2.0) Confluence and JIRA Win Jolt Awards (tags: confluence... read full post
Bottom-up and inside out - the future of enterprise IT?
Software as a Service is a potentially transformational delivery model that could put functionality and control in the hands of lines of business rather than just IT, and it will play a key role in the future of what people are calling Enterprise 2.0 - but how and when will that happen? read full post
links for 2007-03-21
Ranganathan's fantasy (tags: library classification facets) The Ten London Transport Commandments - Fridaycities :: London (Beta) hilarious! (tags: london) Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services (Alex Iskold/Read/WriteWeb) (tags: web semantic_web services) NewsGator Online Beta: it’s Ajax-y ;)... read full post
links for 2007-03-20
Jeff Han's multitouch demo (tags: ued interface touch screen)... read full post
UK opposition party makes Open Source Software promise
George Osborne of the UK Conservatives has promised his party will boost the use of Open Source Software by government if they are elected, in an excellent speech about the social web. read full post
links for 2007-03-18
Web 2.0 » SlideShare (tags: web2.0 culture internet) Bubble up those concepts (tags: flash mindmaps tools) MySQL - is this database fit for the Enterprise? | Reg Developer (tags: mysql database enterprise)... read full post
links for 2007-03-17
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » A little thing about personas (tags: design personae) Confluence adoption in the trenches (tags: confluence adoption tips wiki) Is Twitter TOO good? (tags: twitter alwayson cpa attention) Microsoft tells MVPs "we're... read full post
Saatchi Gallery Showdown
The Saatchi Gallery online is quite a phenomenon, and probably the greatest experiment in user-submitted art we have seen to date. Headshift helped a little bit, but in reality it was Charles' vision through and through. read full post
links for 2007-03-16
FT.com / Companies / IT - IBM to offer corporate 'Jamming' (tags: ibm jams collaboration innovation) The Omni Mouth » The process of being productive (tags: gtd productivity tools) Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud? (tags: tags... read full post
links for 2007-03-15
Lola Young on myths and ignorance surrounding the slave trade | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited (tags: racism memory slavery) Wikis at Work (or Life After Wikipedia) | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki (tags: wikis business usecases tips) Scripting News: The... read full post
links for 2007-03-13
New research on laughter is showing that "It's an instinctual... (tags: cogsci laughter socialnetworking) BusinessWeek tells CEOs about wikis (tags: wikis adoption) Journalism Through Computer Programming (tags: journalism programming) Why You Shop At Wal-Mart: Economics Eats Itself (tags: choice... read full post
links for 2007-03-12
Musing about the opensourcing of processes (tags: process management transparency) Nonprofit leadership means networking, socially and openly (tags: rsa democracy nonprofit learning leadership) Bokardo - Social Web Design » 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers (tags: blogs blogging tips) Counting... read full post
links for 2007-03-11
Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Can Twitter Save Lives? (tags: twitter disasters response) What you can't see can be very distracting (tags: ambientinformation cogsci attention distractions) mind this - by Lars Plougmann: Dimensional tagging approaching collective intelligence (tags: geodata... read full post
links for 2007-03-10
Atlassian News: Letters from the U.K. (how one customer is using JIRA and Confluence) (tags: jira confluence casestudies) AnyWare » Blog Archive » Using JIRA effectively #1 (tags: jira issues) Career Advice: Don't Spend Half Your Work Day On... read full post
links for 2007-03-09
Social capital, ethnicity, and cohesion (tags: socialcapital cohesion community) Wiki Politics (tags: wiki politics participation) stamen design | A day of Diggs and a thin blue line (tags: digg dataviz) Computing Studies and Social Media: finding new ground (tags:... read full post
links for 2007-03-08
Thought leader: Why penguins have no commanding officer... - Inside Knowledge (tags: penguins leadership groups networks) Atlassian Developer Blog: Remote Log Monitoring via RSS (tags: logs software development rss) My Yahoo! Gets Web 2.0 Makeover (tags: design yahoo community... read full post
Social Networking: Still Bottom-Up
If like me you are more of a reader than a writer, you will remember that last week's headlines were occupied by Ning. The reintroduction of the DIY social network suite was reviewed by the NYT last Sunday, along with... read full post
links for 2007-03-07
Phil Morle says "We need time to think" (tags: attention time overload) Internet Killed The Television Star: Reviews of Joost, Babelgum, Zattoo, and More (tags: joost tv video) thoughts on twitter (tags: twitter chat presence) [f2c] Alternative to Yochai... read full post
RSA event on the social impact of the Web tomorrow
A lecture and discussion of the social impact of the web at the RSA with Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. read full post
links for 2007-03-06
SandHill.com | Management | The Next Wave of Enterprise 2.0 (tags: socialtext enterprise enterprise2.0) Advertising Age - Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million (tags: consumption charity marketing) SV Technology: Lawport (tags: law legal software) M's: one column layouts:... read full post
links for 2007-03-05
[f2c] Yochai Benkler (tags: networks networking culture internet conferences events) Portals and KM: Fast Forward Blog - My Posts Through the Conference (tags: enterprise socialsoftware conferences) Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology -- A Group Blog (tags: anthropology)... read full post
Thoughts on the optimum banana supply chain for offices
Bananas are the only fruit read full post
links for 2007-03-04
FT.com / Technology - Think boring is the tip from Silicon Valley (tags: it vc) Dave Pollard: Business Innovation: What's New in Innovation: Five Trends Worth Thinking About (tags: innovation) socialwrite.com » Modelling the New Enterprise (tags: enterprise networks... read full post
links for 2007-03-02
From research to development (tags: research innovation)... read full post
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