Archive for the ‘Social’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
ENN.ie with the news:
"A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, from Missouri, for her alleged role in the hoax on the social network against her 13 year-old neighbour Megan Meier who committed suicide. Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account with a false identity to contact Meier, ...
Posted in Annoyances, Social | No Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
BarcampBelfast 2008 is planned for Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm. Last year I had other commitments and couldn't make it but I intend to turn up this year. Mac-Sys did sponsor it last year and will be doing so again. I think we need more of these events.
There's already ...
Posted in BarCamp, Commentary, Social, Startup, infurious | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Andy recently posted that his efforts to build Co-Working Belfast have been bearing fruit as he gets QUB and Belfast City Council on board. For my part, I've pledged that Mac-Sys will buy a desk every month and put some loaner kit down there as well to foster mobile ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Social, Startup, Wireless | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I got this Businessweek link from DaringFireball this morning.
"A few weeks after announcing it will shut down its municipal wireless network in New Orleans, EarthLink Inc. said Tuesday that it has notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that it is terminating that network, too."
This is what happens when ideas are ...
Posted in Social, Wireless | No Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
A thoughtful piece from 37Signals on the necessity to monetise Twitter
"That doesn’t exonerate them from building a more stable service. Especially not considering that they have five million dollars of other people’s money to do it with and a few years of practice."
"If the growth in Twitter usage was mirrored ...
Posted in Commentary, Social | No Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The title for this blog post derives from the autre-title for "The Hobbit" which was "There and Back Again". It details an arduous journey, full of frustration and friction, in order to have an adventure and then return home.
As the months pass in $BIG_COMPANY, it becomes clearer to me what ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Do Something Now, Social, Startup | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The Economist on Techno-Bedouin.
"The proper metaphor for somebody who carries portable but unwieldy and cumbersome infrastructure is that of an astronaut rather than a nomad, says Paul Saffo, a trend-watcher in Silicon Valley. Astronauts must bring what they need, including oxygen, because they cannot rely on their environment to provide ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Social, Startup | No Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
From Signal Versus Noise
Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline ...
Posted in Made me laugh, Social | No Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
"But there +is+ value in having a great group of people you’re following. Follow @craignewmark and you’ll see what Craig is seeing or thinking (he’s the founder of Craigs’ List). Follow @pierre and you’ll see what he’s thinking (he’s the founder of eBay). Follow HRBlock and you’ll see what the ...
Posted in Annoyances, Social | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I get a lot of email. I also have quite a few people who talk to me via Instant Messenger. On top of that there are the blogs I read. And then there's Twitter where you can have a conversation, albeit somewhat public for the most part (though private messages ...
Posted in Commentary, Social | 10 Comments »