Digital by Default

Category: work

  • 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…

  • Scrum-ptious Applications

    One of the things I miss from my time at Jiva (apart from the team of course) is working closely with everyone to actually build the product and the way we used to Scrum in a relatively flexible way to give us a framework to work within. Of all the myriad roles I’ve had over…

  • When Content Was King..

    For one reason or another this last week has had me thinking alot about my early days working on the web.  I started my web career in 1998 working at the library at the University of the West of England and back then the only qualification you needed to be left in charge of the…

  • JISC Rapid Innovators invade Manchester

    Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to attend a really impressive event hosted by UKOLN (with support from JISC) at the City of Manchester Stadium. The event continues today but I was unable to stay the distance 😦 The event brought together JISC Rapid Innovation projects alongside a number of other people with…

  • Hello, is it me you’re looking for..

    The guys at Carsonified launched a new app to support their FOWA events this week. It was another piece of rapid innovation similar to the development and launch of Mattinator a while back but this one seems much more fun. Hello essentially creates an event specific social network to encourage more face-to-face meetings using Twitter…