chris @ September 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m just home from my first London Girl Geek Dinner. I was late, of course (sigh), because of a last-minute production problem that needed handing over to a different team in an orderly fashion — important client has problems with an API: can’t wait. And then the Tube broke down at Paddington, and I needed […]
chris @ September 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
DNS Lookup tool, Reverse DNS lookup tool - www.DNSWatch.info
Clean and simple Web-based DNS lookups, including reverse DNS. My only gripe is that it doesn’t do TXT records.
(tags: internet tools dns free)
chris @ September 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Guardian CiF: Bebo boomers make a stand [real social organisation on virtual social networking sites… who’d have thunk]
“However, within hours of hearing that 22 of their schools could be closed down, Sarah, who enjoys “Sittin with my friends gettin drunk again on wine … ,” had set up the Bebo group Save Edinburgh Schools”
(tags: socialnetworking […]
chris @ September 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Ethics and Privacy in the Digital Age | Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)
Terriffic essay from my friend Stephanie Booth on ethical aspects of social networking, written after a Facebook “friend” used a screen shot of her friends-only profile in an article he wrote for the press — without permission.
(tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, privacy, blogging)
chris @ September 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet
So long, and thanks for all the fish by Douglas Adams
Note to self: re-read.
(tags: book humour scifi h2g2 adams)
Chinwag Jobs
Interesting job board for new media jobs in the UK, mostly.
(tags: internet marketing jobs uk)
BlogTalk 2008 | Cork, Ireland, 3-4 March
Social Software conference. I might want to go.
(tags: conference, socialsoftware, web, internet, ireland)
Last.fm – the Blog […]
chris @ September 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Is Enterprise Software Failing The Innovation Test? « The Future of Software
In this forceful interview, Vivek Ranadive (Tibco) argues that innovation in software engineering currently comes from consumer software. Myself, I’ve been aghast at the shoddy quality of b2b software products in internal use in companies everywhere.
(tags: software trends enterprise workplace b2b)
Task-Centered User Interface Design […]
chris @ September 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Solar Host | Solar powered, eco-friendly Web hosting.
This is a small web hoster with attractive prices that uses 100% solar power, and declare themseves “dedicated to reducing carbon emissions and pollution associated with our hosting”. Their servers “use percent less energy and generate fifty percent less
(tags: hosting environment web green)