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2008Jimdo Launched New Blog Feature
Jimdo, a Germany-based online website editor has just launched its private beta version of Blog feature. Like Jimdo’s existing service, the blog feature is very cool. Ajax-based, highly customizable editor, easy-to-use multimedia content publishing syst...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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08
MAY
2008Event: CHINICT Rising Stars Award Ceremony, Beijing
We always need more stages to help on the communication between the Chinese IT companies and the west. CHINICT is a quite high level annual event doing this job. Taking place for the 3rd consecutive year, CHINICT 2008 - the largest event in ICT entreprene...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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08
MAY
2008Inaugural Sheffield Geekup
Last night I attended and spoke at the First Sheffield Geekup held at the Fat Cat in Sheffield. My talk was entitled "Deploying Web Projects with Subversion" and you can see the slides for that at ...
Blogged by LornaJane @ lornajane.net
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08
MAY
2008Reminder...
for that radio thing I do....
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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08
MAY
2008Social Stigmas and Drivers
Going through the questionnaire results and the video tape from the vox pops (i will put them up here as soon as i've figured out to embed .flvs into the MT blog!) made me think about the motivations for gaming......
Blogged by Tom J @ rattleresearch.com
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08
MAY
2008Post VBUG Mini Conference in Birmingham
On Thursday 24th April 2008, VBUG held a mini conference in Birmingham, covering VS08, WPF, WF, MOSS and SilverLight. This was a great day and delegate feedback was good. Big thanks to our speakers - Mark Quirk, ...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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08
MAY
2008Welcome aboard, Neil Wilson
We’re very excited to welcome Neil Wilson to the Brightbox team. Neil’s wide-ranging technical (and financial) expertise will be put to great use as we continue to grow rapidly. There’s nothing like getting stuck in straight away - the first major t...
Blogged by Jeremy Jarvis @ brightbox.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008VBUG Newcastle - Heroes Happen Here Launch Event - Review
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008IIS 7 PowerShell Provider featured on PowerShell Podcast
Recently I blogged about the new IIS7 PowerShell Provider, and this was picked up by the people behind the PowerScripting Podcast - who commented on the...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008Back to training for the Great North Run!
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008VBUG Newcastle - Web Client Software Factory with Gary Short
On Wednesday 21st May VBUG Newcastle welcomes Gary Short, who will be delivering a session on the Web Client Software factory. Gary is a Technical Evangelist for Develop...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008Internet Information Services Resources Page
After announcing I would do this shortly after my session at IMTC, unfortunately I have only just managed to get round to actually completing the page and putting it live. I have written a page and added it to my blog listing all of the blogs and IIS...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008Brightbox Gem v2 beta
We’re proud to announce the beta version of our new Brightbox deployment gem. It is available from the Brightbox gem testing repository at http://gems.brightbox.net/testing. You can add this repository to your list by following these instructions. This...
Blogged by Neil Wilson @ brightbox.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008Bean counting… or how I manage my freelance business finances
When I first starting freelancing over a year ago, I quickly became dragged down with how much time it would take me to generate quotes/invoices and send them on to clients. Rather, than put up with that situation or pay for a solution I wrote my own. ...
Blogged by phil @ imgiseverything.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008Expression Suite 2.0 has been Released - Really! Without Source Control!! Yes Still!!!
Yes it's true Microsoft's Expression Suite 2.0 has released. Expression Suite 2.0 actually launched last Thursday, 1st May 2008, and to be honest I almost miss...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008IIS 7 and FrontPage Server Extensions
I've been taking a look at the web stats from my blog over the past few days and have noticed a lot of hits on a previous post - FrontPage Server Ext...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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09
MAY
2008Show online for download
As usual, a short while after it has aired this weeks show is online for download.Enjoy...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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10
MAY
2008DDD Scotland: Second Session
[Apologies because my laptop blue screened and windows live writer doesn't do auto recovery:( I REALLY need a new laptop now! - everything up to abusing threads is from memory] ...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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10
MAY
2008DDD Scotland: Third Session
Integration Service in Sql 2008 Allan Mitchell www.SQLDTS.com\ www.SQLIS.com Behind the scenes: Threading Multicast Transform...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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10
MAY
2008DDD Scotland: First Session
Web Services: We dont need no stinking web server Barry Dorrans http://idunno.org/ Agenda What is WCF WCF Vs Remoting SOA, Services, I...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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10
MAY
2008DDD Scotland: Fourth Session
Making the leap into advanced SQL Tony Rogerson Sub Queries Sub queries (in the select statement) execute once per each row...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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10
MAY
2008DDD Scotland: Session Five
Red, Green, Refactor! Ben Hall Test->Code -> Refactor Need to change your mindset Because the tests have to be written we need to stop and think about what w...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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10
MAY
2008Coworking & Childcare
Springwise recently ran an article - More work spaces for parents - covering the development of coworking spaces that include childcare. New York’s TwoRooms and San Francisco’s Cubes & Crayons both offer care for pre-school kids, randing from a fe...
Blogged by Imran Ali @ oldbroadcastinghouse.com
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10
MAY
20081-Click Data Portability
I used to be Freeserve+Wanadoo's digital identity futures guy - providing technology intel on Hailstorm, Liberty Alliance, Sxip and LID; eventually some of our work contributed to the adoption of OpenID across Orange. Throughout this work, no initiative e...
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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10
MAY
2008Kagtum beta invite request open
I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time recently on kagtum and making good progress. So much progress in fact, I think I’m going to be able to start unveiling things in public soon. If you want i...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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11
MAY
2008Book Review: Electric Universe…
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched On The Modern World David Bodanis Rating: I just finished this last week, and it was a fascinating read. Covering everything from radar to static electricity, autobiography to science, it’s definitely worth p...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008“I’ll be dead soon�
Steve Jobs on following his dreams and facing death. A thought-provoking speech from a Stanford University graduation ceremony. On YouTube, here. Share on From www.guyrintoul.com | © See copyright information...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008The futility of reclassification
“After listening to Jacqui Smith MP talking about skunk cannabis in Parliament today millions of young people have decided to quit using cannabis and drink 3 litre bottles of white-lightning cider instead.” The Transform Drug Policy Foundation blog ha...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008Obama has more super-delegates
BBC News reports that Barak Obama has overtaken Hillary Clinton in number of super-delegate endorsements. It’s increasingly certain that Obama will win the US Democratic race, and Clinton would do well to sacrifice her pride for the sake of her party. H...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008Junta kills tens of thousands
“Burma is still exporting rice even as it tries to curb the influx of international donations of food bound for the starving survivors of the cyclone that killed up to 116,000 people … The continuing rice sales looked like just another facet of the Bu...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008Google software hunts paedophiles
I saw this last month but didn’t get round to blogging it. Showing what can be achieved when big business considers social issues, YouTube software has been adapted to help analysts from the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008Domestic mobile roaming
Greg Clark MP recently introduced his Right to Roam (Mobile Phone) Bill in Parliament. The bill would encourage mobile phone companies to allow roaming between UK networks, in the same way that phone signals are seamlessly transferred on the European cont...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008The Long Road to GTDInbox 2.1
Over the last few weeks I’ve been squeezing in functionality updates where I can; and something interesting is starting to happen… GTDInbox feels like it has undergone a ’step change’ improvement, and it’s noticeably more powerful. So, the next...
Blogged by Andy @ blog.productivefirefox.com
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11
MAY
2008Facebook’s walls crumble
“Social network Facebook announced Friday the debut of Facebook Connect, a new technology for members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external Web sites. It makes the company the latest major Web site to embrace the conce...
Blogged by Guy @ guyrintoul.com
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11
MAY
2008Book Journal - Jumper by Stephen Gould
Purchase Location: BordersDate Started: Approx Feb 2008Date Finished: Approx Feb 2008...
Blogged by Jon Spriggs @ jon.spriggs.org.uk
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12
MAY
2008UCWeb, The Next Maxthon On Mobile?
There is no doubt that Maxthon is still the No.1 Chinese browser in the market, but we can see that the competition is getting more intense. Tencent has its so called TT browser bundled with QQ for a long time, Firefox is more and more accepted by high ed...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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12
MAY
2008Jim Poyner Photography
Because everyone told Sophie she looked terrible in the pictures I’d taken of her, she went to see Jim Poyner and she looks gorgeous doesn’t she?...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008The Tools Google Uses Internally
Recently I’ve been on a project that uses BaseCamp. I really don’t know what all the fuss is about surrounding BaseCamp, for me it doesn’t do anything very well at all.. and often breaks to boot, but you tend not to know this stuff until you’ve be...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008The Spectra Visual Newsreader
The Spectra Visual Newsreader at msnbc.com is swooshy AND floaty. The first two things I look for in any application nowadays. I was just finding NetNewsWire struggling lately to display all my newsfeeds and thinking, blimey, there has to be a better, mor...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008Remarkability and Rubbish
That someone has done this is remarkable, so remarkable I think his site has crashed under the traffic…. John Resig - Processing.js … and on the York Freecycle list, the fact that someone has done this is even more remarkable… OFFERED: Kitchen Waste...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008Byteflow and Eggs Benedicts
The Byteflow Blog Engine is written in Django. I will have to give this a whirl sometime. I’m still getting my head around the quirks of the new Wordpress Add media interface which to me is as ungainly as sitting Eggs Benedict on top of two circles of t...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008History of Mongol Empire Timeline
A site for making timelines such as the History of Mongol Empire Timeline. Damn, I’d started creating one of these in the Google App Engine but haven’t received a full pass yet. I think time as well as zooming are two of the richest un-tapped seams in...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008Grand Designs
Rick over at Wall Glamour Blog lets slip that he had a stand at the Grand Designs Live show. I once sat next to and chatted with Kevin from Grand Designs on the London to York train, and it wasn’t until Newark that I realised exactly who he was, but by...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008Summer’s here … time for the Londinium affogato!
The Londinium Espresso Blog: Summer’s here … time for the Londinium affogato! Reiss has got his “Art you drink” cups made and is putting them to good use in this hot weather. Stephen Barber ( barbd.net ) really likes the My Starbucks Idea site and...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008Non-apologies for not posting
Isn’t it funny when people apologize for not posting… As if anyone gives a toss, as if there’s a lack of blog posts. But sorry anyway. I haven’t blogged in a while because all my ideas for blog posts have either been too tiny and end up as tweets,...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008How to tell if an SEO company risks getting you blacklisted by Google
It’s easier than it sounds… Ask for a list of clients. Most dodgy SEO companies will want to keep exactly who their clients are quiet because it’s ridiculously easy to work out what their SEO strategy is. Many use Link Farms which makes it more tha...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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12
MAY
2008Injustice to EIPP/e-invoicing - lack of coverage
Apologies for the lack of recent coverage on eipp/e-invoicing. Thought leadership cannot be provided without undertaking adequate research. Wouldn’t it be great if document/information search time can be reduced. This is one of the reasons why I founded...
Blogged by Manoj Ranaweera @ manojranaweera.com
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13
MAY
2008Museum Memories
We've recently been working with the Science Museum to help produce the ObjectWiki. It's described as : "The Science Museum 'Object Wiki' is a w...
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13
MAY
2008Television may be the gin of the information age, but that doesn’t mean the web is pure water
The new media revolutionary in me so much wants to believe Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody” hypothesis, that the web heralds a new era of mass participation, collaboration and creativity. With our mobile phones and broadband connections we remad...
Blogged by mattedgar @ matt.me63.com
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13
MAY
2008XTech 20:20 showdown
At XTech this year, I was lucky enough to be one of the organisers for the 20:20 Lightning Talks Session on Thursday evening. I wanted to say a big thanks to all who took part, your friendly gong-wielding hosts Mike Smith & Rob Lee included and the XT...
Blogged by deb @ urbanwide.com
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14
MAY
2008Brain: A Book Cover
This is all a rather long way off and pending significant amounts of change, but I rather fancied sharing this in case it changed significantly later on. Just a book cover....
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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14
MAY
2008Ubuntu Openssh vulnerability
A vulnerability in some versions of Openssh on Debian and Ubuntu Linux was announced yesterday which can result in attackers gaining ssh access to machines with weak keys. Any versions of Openssh that can produce these weak keys needs to be upgraded,...
Blogged by John Leach @ brightbox.co.uk
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14
MAY
2008overusing the word “open� at where2.0
Where 2.0 has started, alas, I’m not attending in person this year, but Nick Black spotted that my image is there instead, on the conference programme! Big big thanks to Seero.com who are streaming most of the sessions, plus are archiving a lot of them...
Blogged by tim @ thinkwhere.wordpress.com
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14
MAY
2008No doubt that Rangers are in Manchester
They're here then! Don't forget you can share your pictures online at the MEN's Flickr group. Or buy pictures from the MEN gallery.......
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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14
MAY
2008Manchester Is Decidedly Undiverse
So last night, more or less on a whim, I popped to the Geekup that was on in Manchester. I was slightly alarmed when I enquired at the bar where the event was and was told there was nothing like that booked for that night...
Blogged by LornaJane @ lornajane.net
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14
MAY
2008The Great Istockphoto.com Rip Off
So i decided to add some more credit to my istockphoto.com account and noticed the prices were in UK Pounds giving me 26 credits for 20... not a bad deal some might say however i thought that i'd investigate the prices of these credits in other currencies...
