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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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