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 ...
Posted in Annoyances, Bedouin, Wireless, politics | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Cool, Social, Startup, Wireless | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Commentary, Cool, Social, Startup, Wireless, iPhone, infurious | 2 Comments »
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 ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I really want to get out of the rat race.
Not so much the 9-5 thing because I'm most alert during 11 am to about 3 pm and can get the most done during then but definitely the traffic commute. It takes me between 60 and 90 minutes to get to ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The Northern Ireland Science Park may not be the most obvious place for an bedouin entrepreneur but it's a live and working Bedouin workspace in Belfast's Titanic quarter. You can Join Up and benefit from the following:
Bronze (available to individuals only) - £50 per quarter paid in advance (1 month ...
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