Monthly Archives June 2007

NHS Choices gives greater patient choice

I see the NHS has a new website for patients to rate their service..

Medicsight IPO’d

Medicsight successfully IPO’d yesterday which was great, taking the company’s market capitalisation to

Medicsight IPO’d

Medicsight successfully IPO’d yesterday which was great, taking the company’s market capitalisation to

Is social media really for teenagers?

Melcrum’s research (pdf) into social media usage at global corporations found that less than a third of communicators feel confident about using social media as part of their communications strategy.
However, despite this skills gap, 60 per cent of organizations will have some form of social media in place by the end of 2007. [...]

Surface tension

Flickr contacted me to say they have removed a photo I used from an award-winning photographer’s website..

Challenge Gringo!

I have a nice idea for a site which plugs into the cheeky, user-centric, ‘jackass’, travel-orientated culture. With a cool strong ethical side to it, and seriously sponsoring fun globally, with web 2.0 features such as ‘degrees of separation’ and rating individuals’ activity..

Dr Who?

Watched the last episode of Dr Who thinking OK so he goes to the end of the universe, very sci fi. Then sat up when he told off his two time travellers, saying “to stop blogging” in terms of their chit-chat. Nice example of where conversation in the real world, and in the online world, [...]

The name of the Game

Well, well. Funny what you overhear in you local Gamestation outlet. Today Gamestation staff banter included a reference to a buyout and staff policy not to discuss pricing with the local GAME store, located but 2 mins walk away. Maybe I was lucky, but it turns out that was right. GAME bought out Gamestation just [...]

NASA TV

Just watching the space shuttle work live at sun sets on Atlantis at 21:45GMT. Though by the looks of it my timing was out;-)
“Mission Specialists Danny Olivas and Jim Reilly performed repair work and helped fold solar arrays Friday during STS-117’s third spacewalk. The 7-hour, 58-minute excursion wrapped up at 9:22 p.m. EDT.”

Invention vs Innovation

Saw this on the Business Link site and thought it was good to make the distinction:“It is important to differentiate between invention and innovation. Invention is a new idea. Innovation is the commercial application and successful exploitation of the idea.”