Posted on 31 March 2008 by Michael
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?
Filed under: UI Developments, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Posted on 30 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: Working online | Tagged: InfoWOE | 1 Comment »
Posted on 20 March 2008 by Michael
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.
Filed under: Microblogging | No Comments »
Posted on 19 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: Words and Phrases | No Comments »
Posted on 16 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: Words and Phrases | No Comments »
Posted on 15 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: Software | No Comments »
Posted on 13 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: UI Developments | No Comments »
Posted on 13 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: E-learning, Professional, Software development | No Comments »
Posted on 11 March 2008 by Michael
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 [...]
Filed under: Blogging | No Comments »
Posted on 11 March 2008 by Michael
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, [...]
Filed under: Social media | 1 Comment »