December 15, 2008
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Huge thanks to everyone who came to BBC Backstage first's North West Networking Bash. We partied right through from 7pm to 3am, and loved every moment of it. I spent most of the night socialising and making sure everything … Continue reading
December 13, 2008
by ianforrester
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I love working for the BBC but there is certainly a divides which do come up and lets say make the work more challenging. Rain my partner in crime on Backstage brought to attention a letter/email in Ariel. The keyword … Continue reading
December 12, 2008
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Its BBC iPlayer's first birthday today and the BBC has a range of things planned around the event. Good stuff, its been something to be proud of and the alterations keep coming thick and fast. But although there is all … Continue reading
December 12, 2008
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Hemmysphere wrote in a twitter Single male friends, take heed and lie. Oh, and good luck http://tinyurl.com/6ztpfz. So I checked out the link and its a guardian article about how woman are impressed with a man who reads. Wow, really? … Continue reading
December 10, 2008
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A few days after setting the wheels in motion, I got my email today saying things are ready to take away. My only complaint is its close to the deadline. Your export files are complete. You may download your files … Continue reading
December 10, 2008
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ReadwriteWeb has a article which pretty much sums up where we are with cloud computing on the consumer side. One of the conclusions is simple, Internet is not everywhere yet. Everyone knows the frustration of being on a train and … Continue reading
December 9, 2008
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Lifehacker are running a poll for the Five best media centre applications. On the hot list is XBMC, Boxee, Windows Media Centre, SageTV and finally MythTV. This means no AppleTV, Frontrow, Media Portal or Plex. Although I got to say … Continue reading
December 8, 2008
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So on the way back from Liverpool on the train. BarCampLiverpool was a blast, I believe a good time was had by all. The turn out wasn't quite the BarCamp busting 200, but it didn't matter, the 100 people that … Continue reading
December 5, 2008
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Portable Social Graphs – Imagining their Potential View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: retail marketing) Someone (I expect Miles) once talked about the idea of hidden in plain view to me. I can't find much about it except … Continue reading
December 3, 2008
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Yes I bought one, I was thinking about selling my acer netbook which is a nice machine but as I thought it would be, was eclipsed by 12inch Dell. I twittered and yammered about it and some people got back … Continue reading
December 3, 2008
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David Recordon wrote up the concept of OpenID in the browser. Yes in the browser not on the browser. Imagine if your web browser really knew who you were on the web. Just as you login to your computer, what … Continue reading
December 2, 2008
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Woke up today to this. We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15, 2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new pro accounts. To help with your transition, we … Continue reading
December 2, 2008
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A friend of mine Mike Lott sent me a link to lifehacker where they talk about Tarpipe. Tarpipe streamlines your updates to various social web sites, creating simple or complex workflows to update several buckets in one fell swoop. Let's … Continue reading
December 1, 2008
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So after all the fuss about twitter rank, someone else has build a popularity contest which is starting to make the rounds on Twitter. Twittergrader is like twitter rank but (and this is the important part) doesn't require your twitter … Continue reading