Just taken a flying visit (literally) to the venue in Second Life where you can visit PodCamp UK this weekend. Make a note – http://slurl.com/secondlife/Booville%202/67/171/29 About 120 people now signed up to be at the event in the real world, at the NTI in Birmingham. I’ll be there from about lunchtime…
Charging the provider of a social network an activation fee’ for joining? Requesting payment from the developers for ‘accepted friends requests’? How about an ‘early termination’ fee as compensation if the social network folds within a year? Or an ‘annual renewal’ fee if they don’t, just for the hell of…
Content summary: Dan York reports on the joys of IT self support, video and Facebook application development; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; report: half of Americans visit blogs regularly; the TUC calls for workplace guidelines for Facebook; DMOZ needs to die; verification of identity coming to Second Life; Hewlett-Packard’s…
The TUC, the organization representing trade unions in the UK, adds its voice to the big debate on what to do about Facebook and employee use. In a practical approach to an issue that some companies see as a problem that can be solved only by banning it from the…
Suddenly encountering difficulties publishing a post from Windows Live Writer where the post contains an image. Troubleshooting with Joe Cheng at Microsoft. This is a test post to see if it now works if I disable the Bad Behaviour plugin and try again to publish a post containing an image.…
A hot topic this week, in the online PR community at least, has been the concept of lifestreams. This is about aggregating everything about you – blog posts, photos, streams of thought al la Twitter, content in myriad other places online – all in one place, thus making it easy for you…
Reuters reports some interesting figures from the Small Arms Survey 2007 on the availability of guns around the world. The UK doesn’t get a mention anywhere in Reuters’ report. Well, you wouldn’t expect it too, really, would you? The UK doesn’t have a level of gun ownership that would warrant…
PodCamp UK in Birmingham is shaping up to be a terrific weekend. Over 100 people have now signed up on the wiki to be there. Whatever your interest and whether you’re a seasoned podcaster, starting out or just have an interest in audio and video communication, there’s something for everyone…
