Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Aardvark Joins the Google Zoo..

    If Techcrunch is to be believed, and as it is one of the rare occasions these days that Arrington himself contributes I tend to believe, then Aardvark has been acquired by Google for around $50 million. I was an early beta tester of Aardvark and though I have at times found the service frustrating I…

  • End of EventVue

    Over the weekend I read about the end of EventVue first on the CrowdVine blog, then the very honest post-mortem from EventVue themselves and then finally Techcrunch. In fact as is often the case they appear to have gained more publicity by closing down than they ever got when they were in business! EventVue were…

  • Ideas for Open Education Publishing

    As anyone who has read this blog can probably tell I do a fair bit of semi-aimless trawling around the web driven by vague ideas for projects I’d like someday to attack but more often than not life gets in the way so they stay ideas and slowly fade away. Some ideas though hang around…

  • Persistently Clueless

    On Wednesday I attended a JISC meeting on the subject of Persistent Identifiers (#jiscpid) which is a long term topic of discussion in JISC-world. Now I came to this as pretty much a newbie. I have a long history of obsessing over the design of URL schemes and remember reading the original(?) TBL paper on…

  • The Coming of the Conversationalists

    Over on the Groundswell blog this week the published an interesting post with a much more interesting graphic based on an update of their ‘Social Technographics‘ work that Forrester use in their consultative work and if I remember rightly was featured in the Groundswell book (which I’ll admit I’ve never finished..) I’ve added the graphic…