Archive for the ‘CoWorking’ Category

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 ...

co-working

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

OpenCoffee Belfast It's kinda refreshing to see more than just me being interested in new ways of working. David is working on a CoWorking business plan, Andy spends his days camping out in a coffee shop. Belfast needs co-working facilities. Like, tomorrow. (and yeah, we showed off some iPhone game stuff which the guys ...

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 ...

NiMUG meeting Monday 24th March

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you. Here's the details.

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 ...

Pushing for a Tech-Hub in Belfast

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

DavidJRice expresses some polite frustration at the number of potentially misguided approaches to government (central and local) funding of creative and technology industries. He's right, of course. There is a disconnect between what is happening and what the "gubmint" thinks is happening. When you see people organising themselves for events because ...

Digital Nomads

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

I've spent a lot of time in the past talking about "Going Bedouin", an idea of working that I adore and which I have tried to do for several years, while working for a large telecoms company and also while working for my own company. I feel it helped the ...

Modern work environments

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

From the San Jose Mercury NewsLike other valley stalwarts, including Intel and Sun Microsystems, Cisco is casting aside the cubicle culture that has thrived in the United States since the late 1960s. In its place, the company is embracing a new workplace design that saves space and money, and encourages ...