Spotted the nice story about the lottery winner today, who had both dreamed about a win, and his daughter had been told by a mystery woman that she would win the lottery. That got me thinking for fun about the science of winning and predicting, and the ability of people in this respect, which I’ve [...]
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Europe’s leading enterprise social computing consultancy
Headshift is Europe’s leading enterprise social computing consultancy. Witness the new site design. Meet the people.
RSNA launches on Facebook
Great to see RSNA, the Radiological Society of North America, on Facebook. Not suprising to see Dr. Steve Chan congratulating them on the site, with both the radRounds social networking site and its linked presence on Facebook. Also nice to see that Medicexchange has adopted a useful tag cloud search facility on its home [...]
LinkedIn contacts come to court
Hmm, I once worked as recruitment consultant for Montrose Technical recruitment, the sister company to Hays, back in 1990. I was rubbish at the job!..
People 2.0
Great to pick up the web 2.0 strategies 2008 award for Best New Web 2.0 Initiative on behalf of IT Counts with Carolyn Harrington. Nice to meet up with Alex Ang again from RSS experts VWI Media, who told me he has recently partnered with WordFrame, the software which powers IT Counts. Other leading [...]
Millenium Products
Back in 1999 I worked on a project called Millenium Products based at the Design Council (page includes link to PDF with all submissions). Great team to work with I should say first and foremost, as there’s no such recognition on the Design Council’s site. And a nice logo, now only really seen on some [...]
Caroline scores with baby Luca
AC Milan playmaker became a father for the first time last night when his wife Caroline gave birth to baby boy Luca Celico Leite..
When comics were scary
Read more: “The stories in these [comic] books, says David Hajdu, author of the new book, “The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America,” were unlike anything kids had seen before. They told tales of superheroes, but also of murder, crime and illicit romance. The illustrations could be shocking, and sometimes, [...]
Socialtext gets between the sheets with accountants
Hmm, there’s also been some interesting discussion on this in the ICAEW’s IT Counts. Nice point that “we were in need of a wikified spreadsheet that had all of the utility of Google Docs without the datamining”..
Facebook in Reealitee
Thanks to Ross, here’s BBC3’s Facebook spoof, hmm, funny.