Achievements this week included: - analysis of the current apps world from some consistent sources - four great sessions at the Cloud Computing World Forum - solid progress on setting performance objectives for the team for the new Financial Year - role specs for some new positions in the team defined - and reviewing of … Continue reading Weeknote 103: just me and the boys…
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Following on from yesterday's post, a little crowd-sourcing experiment. All of this, by the way, is in aide of helping me create a 20-slide, 15 seconds per slide presentation that I'm doing in a few weeks time in the Ignite style... The premise: most innovation comes not from plucking ideas out of thin air, but … Continue reading #innovationeqs
In a few weeks I'm going to be taking part in an Ignite event (a presentation of 20 slides, 15 seconds each, and they automatically advance) and have been thinking about subjects... after a few ideas that would have probably thoroughly offended most of the audience (many from the digital agency world), I think I'm … Continue reading Creativity is borne of simple algebra
When I was at university, information was a scarce resource. The library in the centre of the campus at Loughborough was a gigantic structure, a looming, modernist, upside down pyramid which inside had the necessary hush and darkness befitting of an academic book repository. The only thing it really lacked was enough books to cope … Continue reading Sorry sir – the internet ate my homework
One of the trends that has played such havoc in the creative industries in the past decade has been the way in which the internet had reduced the cost of content distribution to such an extent that anyone can become a publisher. Whether the impact that digital photography and photo sharing services have had on … Continue reading The amateurisation of marketing
Amongst the hubbub of the recent leak of LinkedIn passwords has come a piece of analysis from security experts about the most popular passwords (you can read a short piece from Forbes here.). Now of course, by definition, the most popular passwords used for any website are going to be obvious ones. That so few … Continue reading The big security gap: people
Achievements this week included: - surviving the monsoon conditions at our street party for Liz with good, solid British stoicism - getting some great insight into the gaming industry with a colleague from Microsoft Studios - a fantastic day at the BizSpark European Summit, listening to start ups, investors, and other interesting types - some … Continue reading Weeknote 102: jubilee
I was reminiscing yesterday in conversation at the BizSpark Europe summit about the first smartphone app that I ever saw. A good friend had, a few years ago now, had just got his first iPhone, and was excitedly demonstrating the iPint app - a piece of marketing gimmickry that replicated a pint of lager in … Continue reading The value of useless apps
UPDATE: The video of the presentation can be found here: http://video.uk.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&vid=78710c73-92d9-4724-bea7-0708db0a706b My slides for the Cloud World Forum event next week can now be found here: http://slidesha.re/LtCIrf - a similar presentation to the one a few weeks ago at the ITDF, but with a bit of a change of focus. Links to various bits I've written … Continue reading Cloud World Forum
There's a great article on ReadWriteWeb that illustrates a couple of my recurring themes: how darn difficult it is to measure things, and also the fallacy of the idea that developers merely "go where the money is". The piece tries to identify what are, currently, the most popular programming languages. It presents five sets of data: … Continue reading Popular Programming
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