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Hidden in the News International phone-hacking chat that was going on on Twitter last night, it emerged that the Twitter account for PayPal UK had itself been hacked and defaced. With Twitter in particular, and mobile phone voicemail in general, it's amazing that we now have such sensitive information services and communication channels protected by … Continue reading Single factor…

Achievements this week included: - continuing progress on resourcing the Audience Marketing team - catch ups with @tallnohair, @andrewtuson, @davecoplin and @andrewdotcom - ritual humiliation for the leadership team at the end of year team get together... - ...but "Kevin Warwick's Implants" came 4th in the pub quiz - planning starts for Build - and … Continue reading Weeknote 55: in which a (financial) year ended

In a post last week I mentioned Future Babble, Dan Gardner's recent book which looks at human's desire to predict the future, and our inability to do it very well. It's a topic I've been exploring a bit more since, talking with a few folk about the subject. One of Gardner's key arguments is that … Continue reading The same, but different

After a two week holiday, achievements this week included: - catch ups with many of the team - catching up with the state of planning for the new financial year - planning for staff changes (don't forget - I'm looking for a new Audience Marketing Manager!) - a bit of blogging - and some thinking … Continue reading Weeknote 54: Back to work

I've been inspired by a couple of pieces of writing this week: the first, an interesting blog post from my former BBC colleague, and Social Media guru Euan Semple, and the second a tweet that I have since lost, but will paraphrase as "Cloud Computing isn't killing the IT Department, they're committing hari kiri." What … Continue reading Points of IT Control

I had the opportunity to find out a bit more about the Kinect SDK for Windows in a session held at the Microsoft Campus on Tuesday morning. If you aren't aware of it, the development kit provides a series of software tools to allow developers to use the Kinect controller in the Windows environment. There … Continue reading Kinecting

I'm recruiting at the moment - looking for a new Audience Marketing Manager to co-ordinate marketing activity in the UK for the IT Professional community (ie people working in IT outside of development). There is full detail here: http://bit.ly/iVG2d8, but feel free to drop me a line if you want more information.

I arrived back in Portsmouth on Saturday night after a two-week break with the family in the Charente region of France. For the entire two weeks, I was offline, and I struggle to remember such an extended period when I wasn't in some way connected to the Internet in the last decade. Partly this was … Continue reading Time out

Achievements this week included: - a valuable two-day off-site session with my leadership team colleagues - getting focus for the next financial year in the evangelism team (it's probably a process thing) - getting up to speed with all that is Windows 8 (that we know so far...) - a catch up with Trudy from … Continue reading Weeknote 53: Awaydays and bank holidays