links for 2008-05-08
May 09, 2008: Charles Arthur explains how to make the most of Twitter | Technology | The Guardian (tags: twitter howto) Techdirt: Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them? (tags: innovaion ideas)...
London social software dinner with Ross Mayfield
May 05, 2008: Ross Mayfield, social software visionary and co-founder of Socialtext, is in London this week. Join Ross and Headshift for a social software discussion over drinks and dinner on Thursday 8 May 2008. Details are: * Pre-dinner drink and gathering at...
"We Think..."
April 28, 2008: Last week, Keith (my colleague) and I went along to the RSA to listen to Charles Leadbeater talk about his book "We Think", research and thoughts on the web and the web's effect on mass creativity, innovation and collaboration. He...
Open Data Alert! ICTY Archive Must be Open to All 2
April 25, 2008: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has left behind a digital archive of immense importance to the future of human rights protection and education. Unless we act now, it may remain closed in the future, but if we can open source the data then future generations will be able to remix and re-analyse one of the Twentieth Century's most important historical archives.
Big companies use the cloud to innovate 1
April 23, 2008: Photo sharing service SmugMug received much attention when they published their business case for using Amazon's S3 storage service. The 2002 startup describes how the service saves them between half a million to a million USD per year. At Headshift,...
Six Apart adds ads and services
April 22, 2008: Six Apart have announced some interesting new areas of business for their blogging platform, with more to come...
Beyond recent changes: Socialtext 3.0 2
April 21, 2008: Socialtext has announced version 3.0 of their wiki platform. Two major new features are personal dashboards and dynamic people profiles. These are examples of how consumer internet technology continues to migrate to the enterprise and both help bring the promise...
Twitter scepticism: justified or not?
April 21, 2008: Am I right to have a slightly sceptical view of the value of Twitter to most people? Maybe I should give it a try...
100 Big Green Challengers announced
April 18, 2008: Today, NESTA announced the next stage of the Big Green Challenge competition. From the pool of 359 entrants, 100 competitors were selected. The 100 will supply more details about their projects for the judges to peruse. Ten of the projects...
Simple, commodity tools for public consultation
April 15, 2008: Good example of a simple, cheap consultation web site from Ofcom
