I've been looking this morning at a mobile app building service called Conduit - it's an interesting proposition: point it at a website and it will automatically generate Windows Phone, iOS and Android apps based on the content available (including RSS feeds, Twitter streams and Facebook content). Pay a one-off fee, or set up a paid subscription, … Continue reading Software development: Self-deskilling/Self-perpetuating
There was consternation last week amongst Watford fans with the unveiling of the new club shirt. The team's kit sponsor, recently announced as "The Happy Egg Co." (a free-range egg brand) led some to be worried that the new top would be sporting a large cartoon chicken. As it was, we were spared the fowl, … Continue reading The QR Code Mystery
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with folk from a big PR agency now doing mobile... - ... and colleagues from our Advertising business - spouting Innovation Equations at the Ignite Shoreditch event - a fascinating meeting with neuroscientists at Oxford - pulling together a short workshop on creativity - and doing it all … Continue reading Weeknote 105: Year 3
When I was 15, I spent a week of work experience at the Watford Observer, the paper locally published where I was brought up. In between trips to the local Crown Court to watch proceedings, and time spent looking for ambulances to chase, most of my time was spent taking rather verbose press releases from … Continue reading The joy of brevity
One of my stock, slightly barbed, responses to people who refute the idea of Cloud computing on the basis of trustworthiness and security goes a little something like this: "Does your company store its most important asset, its money, underneath a large, corporate-sized mattress? No? What is the banking system, then, other than a public … Continue reading The financial cloud
Achievements on the last week of my second year of weeknoting: - continuing to refine the new year plans for evangelism - good catch up time with friends in St James' - an entertaining day at the Methodist Central Hall for LeWeb - and the pleasure of hearing that for someone my views "renewed their … Continue reading Weeknote 104: biennial
The exciting announcements from my American colleagues earlier this week (see http://www.surface.com/) illustrated one mighty strange thing about how social networks in general, and Twitter and link shortening services in particular have changed quite fundamentally the way in which hyperlinking works, and how we are dangerously reliant on these closed services. On Tuesday morning, I … Continue reading Redirection
A few nights ago we had a chap from a local building company visit us to start to quote for some work we are looking to do. At the end of the evening, he left us with a business card and a DVD. The next morning my wife gave the disc in its sleeve to … Continue reading My digital life
I found myself at Richmond Station on Saturday night, wending my way home after a very enjoyable day with old school friends, celebrating yet another one of our 40th birthdays. On the staircase down to the westbound platform, it looks like some false walls have been removed and, in turn, a series of advertising posters … Continue reading A simpler age
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…
