Impressionism on Tap

Well Flashie B has excelled himself this time. Take any photo and have it gradually emerge as an impressionist painting. Looks great. Now I can’t wait for the online web version. Upload your photo and download the Flash movie or better still the final impressionist image. How about it?

Information Work Online Experiment

InfoWOE Post Collection
The Asus Eee PC and the XO are two examples of ultralight, low-cost laptops that in their initial versions use one of the many variants of the Linux operating system. The price of the Eee PC 701 with a 4 GB SSD made a purchase for me inescapable. From the outset I have [...]

Check Your Twitter Personality

Alex Iskold suggests ways to have fun with Twitter. He suggests the personalities are:

Listener. Only occasionally tweet but have lots of followers.
Talker. Tweet a lot but have few followers.
Hub. Lots of tweets and followers.

Surprise, Surprise it’s Socialprise

Well Enterprise 2.0 is getting almost long in the tooth in Internet years. So a change in terminology is overdue. Sarah Perez from Mashable has put forward socialprise with the simple formula:
social tools + enterprise = socialprise

No doubt this is easily memorable but pronouncing the word is a struggle.
With a new term comes the need [...]

Going with Groundswell

In his inimitable way Jerry O is carrying forward the wave of groundswell. Jerry defines this:
A Groundswell [is] a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions.

Jerry goes on to give us cogent examples of groundswell in action that include readers becoming [...]

Saving Clicks in IE8

Ever wanted to change an odd character or word in the URL in the address bar of your browser? You end up clicking 2 or 3 times, yes? Well thank goodness that IE8 will revert to a more standard model of text editing in an improved click behaviour:

Single-click within a URL to insert the [...]

Modern Art Images on Tap

I am sure soon to be wed MB will like this one. A very quick and easy modern art generator by Microsoft designer Jeff Weir. Generate your masterpiece at his Viscosity site or watch the animated image show. I liked it immediately. My first effort is below. given a couple of hours I would imagine [...]

Books24×7 - An Essential Tool for Teaching IT Subjects

I have been using the Books24×7 ITPro collection for almost 4 years now and continue to rely heavily on the content for my teaching and research. Particularly of late the electronic book collection contains significant numbers of recently published texts full of the very latest technology. In Australia I have found the response times have [...]

An Intermediation Machine

I am a regular reader of Mark Bradley’s Markets are Relationships (MaR) blog but it is like a robot with no soul. Today at 09:55 exactly my Google reader reports 5 posts appeared and another 5 at 11:18. Somewhat annoyingly the feed only show 2.5 lines of content split mid-sentence, but I suppose it is [...]

Enterprise Social Media by Objective

It is interesting to see advice from Josh Bernoff of Forrester giving advice to enterprises on How To Choose The Right Social Technologies. Essentially the approach is to first pick the objective, and only then choose the appropriate social media package:
Picking Technologies By Objective
Listening Tools: Research Communities And Brand Monitoring
Talking Tools: Blogs, Communities, [...]