Archive for the ‘Bedouin’ Category

MacBook Air for the Traveller?

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Publicspace.net I took my MBA on holiday to Spain over the Easter break and it’s just awesome as a light travel companion. It worked flawlessly, was no hassle lugging around the airport, worked fine on the Hotel’s free wireless network and best of all: it fits into a normal size room safe. ...

Co-Working guidelines.

Monday, March 31st, 2008

HiveLogic on getting into The Zone in modern offices:"There’s no choice about how or when you’re expected produce, or under what circumstances. Here is your computer, here is your workstation, you have the tools, the florescent lights are turned on, why don’t you go ahead and get to work, ...

From Bedouin Tents to the Big Top

Friday, March 28th, 2008

For a long while now I've been a proponent of 'Bedouin' working, which is known a little more in the mainstream as 'co-working'. Whereas co-working speaks to me of a common, shared space for individuals to work, Bedouin speaks of multiple spaces, some of them dedicated and some of them ...

Mobile/Portable Computing Caveats

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something. The rant this ...

more on co-working

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Back in 2006 I seriously investigated the possibility of setting up a co-working facility in Belfast. At the time I was pretty much asset-free :) I had a working, profitable business but not enough capital to undertake something of this magnitude. We were looking at a 3 storey building within ...

SkyHook: WiFi geo-location

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I got this link initially from MacRumors A new knowledgebase page from Apple: If you are using Wi-Fi on iPhone or iPod touch and you experience unexpected results when tapping the Location button in Maps, you can refer the respective wireless router administrator to the following URL to update information that Skyhook ...

Steal WiFi: 5 years in prison.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Darryl Collins, local poster-boy for entrepreneurship, writes about how nicking Wifi is bad. I caught this piece on Radio 4’s “You and Yours” last Thursday. I was so incensed by the lack of balance they were giving the issue of people accessing open wifi networks that I went back and listened ...

Working conditions

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

“self-funded small business that encourages people to stay away from the VCs, says you don’t need to live in San Francisco to be successful, suggests that charging for your products is a good thing, espouses the advantages of small teams, applauds shorter work weeks with more reasonable hours, rejects the ...

Workplace Experiments

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

37Signals are one of those companies that you either love or hate, I guess. I like them a lot, with their cheeky, no-nonsense approach to things. It's true that a lot of problems come down to doing the right thing so you have to ask - what are the barriers ...

20/100 Twitter Jaiku Pownce Facebook- And Then What

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Far away in some coffee shop there are three guys sitting, taking gulps of their frappes and writing an insanely great idea on the back of a napkin. They're going to blow apart the world of social network and provide the basis for the next great revolution. Internet/Web 1.0 seemed mostly ...