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February 2008 Archives :: Blog :: Headshift
links for 2008-02-29
Online Communities Design Patterns matrix (tags: online communities patterns web2.0) Online Communities Clinic presentantion (tags: online communities web2.0 patterns usability design) Social Tools Go to Work...Facebook, MySpace, Netvibes, iGoogle, and More in the Enterprise - ReadWriteWeb WorkLight isn't just... read full post
The Twittering Bridge
Twitter has become something of a phenomenon - if you're not familiar with it, it's a cross between blogging and instant messaging, with a dash of SMS thrown in. You've got 140 characters to say what you're doing right now,... read full post
links for 2008-02-26
Where HCI comes from (and where it might go) (tags: hci cscw interaction socialcomputing) Help Make MT Even More Bulletproof (tags: mt 6a hosting) Kevin Kelly -- Better than free (tags: web2.0 business oss freedom) London offices too expensive... read full post
links for 2008-02-25
Social Networking and Opportunities in the Public Sector Social Networking tools have proliferated in the recent past, and many individuals are now utilising such tools as a core part of their day-to-day lives. If these tools can be harnessed... read full post
links for 2008-02-24
Unit Structures: Responding: Are social networks good for society? (tags: socialnetworks socialcapital) Early adopters and the strategy gap (tags: earlyadopters adoption change) Enterprise 2.0 is more about culture and people than technology (tags: IT enterprise culture) Global Neighbourhoods: Two... read full post
links for 2008-02-23
The Globalization Of Facebook (tags: facebook socialnetworks international) Top Health 2.0 Web Apps (tags: health web2.0) Research methods (tags: research km surveys) FASTforward 08 interviews with speakers, attendees, and bloggers (tags: enterprise search conferences interviews events) Deploying Microsoft Office... read full post
links for 2008-02-21
Enterprise class Facebook comes to UK - Business - Macworld UK (tags: facebook enterprise2.0 business web2.0) Lamp lit by gravity wins Greener Gadget award | Virginia Tech News | Virginia Tech (tags: innovation technology green) Jive Talks: Proof that... read full post
links for 2008-02-20
Bertrand DUPERRIN's Notepad » Web 2.0 is knocking on French companies' doors (tags: tns research web2.0 france) Exploring the future of Enterprise 2.0 (tags: enterprise events conferences melcrum) Miliband: Charities must be free to criticise government Volunteer and charity... read full post
links for 2008-02-19
BBC plans to sustain citizenship and civil society. Please tell us how (tags: bbc civilsociety democracy) MyCBBC (tags: bbc kids)... read full post
links for 2008-02-18
EDS' Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About Technology : 5 questions a teenage kid might ask if starting work at your business today 5 questions a teenage kid might ask if... read full post
links for 2008-02-17
Sonico: The Biggest Social Networking Site You've Probably Never Heard Of Spanish language social networking site Sonico is the biggest social networking site you've probably never heard of before today. (tags: socialnetworking sonico socialnetworks) Microsoft 'Frees' Office Formats -... read full post
links for 2008-02-16
All your flame wars are belong to us - BBS systems are 30 years old (tags: history bbs socialsoftware) I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Plan B | PBS (tags: microsoft yahoo google) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Why... read full post
links for 2008-02-15
Research Tools | Economist.com | Economist.com This guide is based on the style book which is given to all journalists at The Economist. (tags: writing style grammar styleguide economist) russell davies: the magnificent seven and the double-deckers I think... read full post
Information hubs in a post-email world
I came across an interesting summary article from MIT titled "In today's knowledge-based economy, it pays to be an 'information hub'", based on some research looking at email flows: "The researchers found that information workers whose strong e-mail networks allow... read full post
links for 2008-02-14
Understanding productivity in the Information Age - MIT Sloan Newsroom (tags: productivity knowledge socialnetworks) Putting people first » Videos of Interaction 08 presentations now online (tags: ia video interaction) Channel 4 gets ready to educate | Games | Guardian... read full post
links for 2008-02-13
EnerJar | The do-it-yourself power meter The EnerJar is an easy-to-build device that accurately measures the power draw of electrical appliances (tags: meter metering power electricity green gadgets)... read full post
links for 2008-02-12
WordPress 2.3+ official support for custom database error page To get started creating your own custom WordPress database error page, follow the two steps below (tags: wordpress) Automatically backup your Mac to Amazon S3 | vallery.net Here is my... read full post
links for 2008-02-11
Lunch over IP: LIFT08: If we want global action on climate change, we need to recognize that not everybody can act alike (tags: headshift lift08 lift08headshift greenthing) LIFT Conference : "a new type of web tool" workshop (tags: lift09... read full post
Quick: press the button for more hugs
Greenthing have set up a live hugathon. Go to the site and push the big green button to make real people hug each other. It is all intended to promote this month's action of using body warmth rather than central heating. read full post
links for 2008-02-10
SpinXpress - Make Great Video - Home Search for various media types across open source repositories on the Web, including various licensing types - e.g. CC, open, copyright, etc. - Great for designers (tags: design media opensource photos video)... read full post
links for 2008-02-09
Designing for Civil Society: Do communities need boundaries? (tags: rsa networks community boundaries) internetactulive: Lift 08 : le développement durable interrogé par les nouvelles technologies (tags: lift08 headshift greenthing) Clever web dev trick for checking browser history (tags: webdesign... read full post
Tom Taylor at LIFT'08
Our very own Tom Taylor presented at LIFT08 in Geneva this week, on the subject of using social software to encourage sustainable development. It's something that's close to our heart through our work with clients like Green Thing and NESTA's... read full post
links for 2008-02-08
Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud Y Combinator startup Heroku, which has been in private beta since October, is coming out today with more details about how it's out to ease the development and deployment of... read full post
Six Go Mad On The Eurostar
This week a group of six of us from Headshift Centrale took a trip to Geneva for the LIFT08 conference. Tom Taylor was presenting about some of the climate change-related projects that we've worked on (you can see his awesome... read full post
links for 2008-02-07
Google Apps aims to move companies to the cloud | Tech news blog - CNET News.com (tags: google saas enterprise) Google, Yahoo Going After Outlook (tags: google yahoo microsoft outlook) BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology... read full post
links for 2008-02-06
Social networking services for enterprise use (2) « SocialMedia.net (tags: enterprise socialsoftware)... read full post
Amidst the Microhoo ballyhoo, an idea for improving enterprise tools
The heat and noise generated by MIcrosoft's hostile bid for Yahoo could power a city, but among the various reactions and strained metaphors are some important points for the future of the Web. Plus, I think there is a potentially innovative enterprise angle that has not been discussed so far. read full post
links for 2008-02-05
Using Enterprise 2.0 for Business Intelligence, Part 2 Information Collaboration and Collective Intelligence (tags: ci intelligence enterprise) OnTheCommons.org | The Rise Of Collective Intelligence (tags: ci intelligence) What you all are missing about Google « Scobleizer -- Tech geek... read full post
Taking the Headshift Lift Express
Taking the Headshift LIFT train to Geneva read full post
links for 2008-02-04
My Diversions » EC2, Confluence, S3 and PostgreSQL (tags: confluence saas amazon s3 ec2) Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook Finances | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (tags: facebook vc business) The Guide: Buying the perfect mattress (tags:... read full post
Want £1m for your bright green ideas?
At Headshift we like to think that we're doing what we can to combat climate change, and we've taken some practical steps - our water coolers have disappeared, to be replaced by filter jugs; and rather than petrol-guzzling Mercedes taxis... read full post
links for 2008-02-03
APC's 7 Strategies for Implementing a Successful Corporate Wiki Industry Week reports on the results of a study on wikis in business by the Society for Information Management's Advanced Practices Council (APC) (tags: wiki wikis implementation management) More ways... read full post
links for 2008-02-02
Google Code Blog: URLs are People, Too (tags: google api socialnetworks xfn foaf) World Affairs Journal - Winter 2008: In This Issue (tags: international media) 67 Reasons that Outlook Sucks | wanderingstan (tags: microsoft email outlook software) Swyddfa Cymru... read full post
iWine for the Macbook Air
An early answer emerges for what to do with the single USB port on the new Macbook Air... read full post
links for 2008-02-01
Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online : Google: Social Networking Inventory Not Monetizing As Well As Expected; Trouble At MySpace? (tags: socialnetworks advertising bubble) What Would a Combined Microsoft-Yahoo Look Like? (tags: microsoft yahoo google)... read full post
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