Entries Categorized as 'tech'

Scrybe is making me drool

Date October 20, 2006

Downloadsquad has an article about a yet-to-be-released-into-beta web-based organiser called Scrybe.
Scrybe appears to be quite different to  others in this space, in that it offers the promise of off-line availability, time-zone awareness, note-taking, annotation and contextually-based usability; ok, that all sounds kind of vapourware-ish, but I can’t think of how to better express it - watch [...]

Google buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion

Date October 9, 2006

Billion? I’ll say it again… BILLION.
Confirmed just a few minutes ago at Techcrunch, this will be the news lighting up the blogosphere for the next few hours. More than likely the fact that Google bought You Tube won’t be the big story. The cost of the deal - $1.65 billion - will be the talking [...]

Ofcom have legalised personal FM-transmitters

Date October 5, 2006

The telecoms regulator here in the UK has finally come around to the idea of legalising personal, low-powered FM-transmitters like the iTrip.
A law passed in 1949 prohibited the use of radio broadcast equipment without a license, making devices like the iTrip or the AudiaX illegal and could have resulted in a two-year prison sentence, if [...]

How to make the front page of Digg in one easy lesson

Date October 5, 2006

Rather than do another “10 tips for making the front page of Digg” article, I thought I would do a short post on how to do it by combining a single, magic ingredient for lip-smacking Diggness with quotes and song titles. See if you can spot the pattern:

Wii Will Rock You
Wii shall overcome
Wii, the People
Wii Can [...]

Corporate Blogs - CIOs need to get naked.

Date September 15, 2006

This article by Jim Turner opens with a great obvservation:
Many businesses don’t want to be the leader in new and different ways of corporate communication.  They like to be copycat for the things that work.  Until companies begin to embrace blogs as an online marketing tool and a way to communicate with clients and customers, [...]

Techcrunch UK Opens for Business

Date August 25, 2006

As much I love Techcrunch, this is great news. Articles that show Web2.0 is being developed outside the valley too!