Piece from Valleywag which echoes Tim Berners-Lee’s comments on user generated content last September. Oh, sorry it’s a gif as I couldn’t be bothered to upload it in a proper fashion.
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Monthly Archives April 2008
Born on 18 April
Jennifer and Richard have a baby boy. Congratulations too for Roger and Linda, and Nicky & Nick..
SocialText Putting A Little Social Into…Enterprise Wikis
Comment on the ’socializing’ of Socialtext: “It’s interesting to see all the different folks who are trying to provide “Facebook for the enterprise”. Who will win? Private label social network providers? Collaboration vendors? Or Facebook themselves?” Chris Yeh of http://www.pbwiki.com/ But I also like lars from Headshift on the rise of the dashboard as featured [...]
Benefits of Brazil
Interesting article in Gringoes.com that links Brazil’s econmic growth to China’s, whilst dodging the US credit crisis..
Social Networking: The Way to Communicate
The dynamic user-generated design of SNS’s makes them very attractive, but also presents many challenges to both platform providers and users alike. As these sites are vastly made up of user-generated content – users disclose PII about themselves and others, share personal and sensitive data and images, and others may chose to implement 3rd party applications that may also collect and disclose user PII. Social Networking Sites must be aware that they are potentially subject to the same vulnerabilities facing internet platforms at large, such as: Spam, Spyware, and Identity Theft..
Xing vs LinkedIn (beta) on mobile
My very lasy & quick comparison of the mobile service provided by Xing (to launch in the UK) vs Linkedin’s beta product (the established business social networking player of course)..
The film ‘21′
Having seen ‘21′ I enjoyed the references to basic maths, changing variables, and non-linear solutions in a cultural (as opposed to a maths) way. Also loved the bit at the end where Laurence Fishburne is in his retirement gear, poolside, reading the newspaper upside down. On a lateral note it struck me this could be viewed as [...]
Obama’s comments on culture
Barack Obama’s comments on culture have got him into trouble. Sounds like he doesn’t understand how culture and politics interact, which is sad. But then what politicians really do in a positive sense? After all the culture of mainstream politics is itself I believe in a difficult position to really understand the varied culture people in the real world live in day to day. I’m sure that’s what in reality puts a lot of bright people off going into politics..
Medicsight buy
“The medical imaging software specialist Medicsight has received approval from the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for its MedicRead Colon workstation.” (10 Apr, Investors Chronicle) Leading to IC recommendation: “Shares in Medicsight have slipped since we advised buying (70.5p, 7 March 2008) the turn of the year. But, with success pegged to the [...]
Ofcom report into social networking
Video introducing Ofcom social networking report (full report PDF 270kb)