Entries from July 2008

July 30, 2008

COMMUNITY POLL

OK, just a quick blog this evening, or should I say morning, as it is four minutes past midnight!
SMS Poll – Does what it says on the tin, but maybe a little better than others on the market…to a certain extent.  These great people allow one to run an online survey using SMS in realtime.  [...]

July 29, 2008

HAVE A NICE DAY ON VIRGIN

Fancy a trip to space…have you got $200,000…
…Mr. Branson today unveiled the latest venture (into the unknown), the Virgin Galactic.
Not only will this be very popular with the stars, they will be literally heading into the stars, as this amazing piece of technology will be heading off on the most expensive journey of a lifetime [...]

July 26, 2008

THE HEROES OF TECHNOLOGY WINNERS ARE…

A quick blog this evening about some very hard working people who have made a difference in theirs and other lives.
The UK Catalyst Awards were hosted and the awards were given to some well deserved recipients.
For a better understanding of the award winners, head on over to the following:
Catalyst Awards Winners
The Revolutionary Award – Wheelies
 
The Self-Help [...]

July 24, 2008

1000 OF THE BEST

It has been some time in coming, but I will take 1000 hits no problem!
A big thanks to all who have taken the time to read my blogs and I hope that some have at least gained in knowledge from my posts.

July 23, 2008

DOPPLR DOES IT AGAIN

DOPPLR is keeping up with the Jones’s and making life more easier to keep travel information updated.
I have spoken about DOPPLR before in quite recent blogs, so go check this out, but before you do, take note of DOPPLR’S BLOG for details on all of the excellent new functionality.
Yes, the smart people over at DOPPLR [...]

July 19, 2008

Roo Reynolds

A quick post today on a post I read about a chap called Roo Reynolds.
I started taking a huge interest in reading blogs around a year ago, even after being in IT for nearly ten years.
What generally happens with blog reading, is that one starts by subscribing to a vast amount of blogs on a [...]

July 18, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NELSON

With today being the birthday of a man who has the shown outstanding integrity through a momentous 90 years, all that is left to say is, “Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela!”
If anyone wishes to have a hand in creating the world’s biggest birthday card ever, why not click on the following link….after reading the rest of [...]

July 15, 2008

TRAVEL BUDDIES

Unfortunately, I do not get the opportunity to travel much, but I know that there are many trips taken by employees each year.  As such DOPPLR could potentially offer a fine way of keeping up to speed on where people are at given points in time.

DOPPLR is not too complicated to use and even has a [...]

July 11, 2008

360 DESKTOP

A new piece of software called ‘360 Desktop’, is about to make huge waves and quite possibly take the desktop 2.0 world by storm.
This software has been in development for the best part of 2/3 years and is currently being offered in a BETA format.
After downloading the software and running it today, I have to say it [...]

July 2, 2008

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

Today is the beginning of a new festival: – http://2gether08.com/ which I will hopefully report upon over the coming days.
Here is the tag-line direct from the website:
‘2gether08 is a festival of ideas and action.
We have have an extraordinarily rich schedule for July 2-3 in London, when 350 people will be exploring how digital technologies can [...]