Friday, May 16th, 2008
A stunning piece of advertorial from InfoWorld via Nortel's sponsored IDC survey.
a considerable number of what it calls "hyperconnected" users ... those using at least seven devices and nine applications ... accounted for 16 percent of the population in the study
Behind the hyperconnected were the "increasingly connected," who use four ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The Co-Working Belfast guys (David Rice and Andy McMillan) are really hoping that some of you will pledge a desk in the co-working building they have planned for Belfast.
I've already pledged a desk (that I'll be unlikely to use but will pay for anyway) and Mac-Sys is pledging a couple ...
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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 ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Twinkle is the first iPhone product I'm looking forward to. Though it's Twitter-based and could be opened to being a blogging client, it has the essentials -
support for the camera
support for conversations
support for locations!
Looking forward to June!
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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