Dipity: a great execution of social time

January 2, 2009 at 4:24 pm (User experience, Web 2.0, flickr, twitter) (, , , , , )

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Having spent quite a lot of the last two years thinking about timelines, Dipity appears to be a fantastic tool for playing with your social activity across a timeline. The site also allows you to view your activity in other ways, including a map view or a flip-book.

Nice…

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Upcoming trip to Abu Dhabi

January 2, 2009 at 12:49 pm (Photography, Working, travel) (, , , , )

In one week’s time I, and 11 colleagues from LBi will be travelling to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to work with Etihad, the national carrier…should be a fun trip, and I’m going to document it on my fresh new photoblog. I’m aiming for a picture a day but we’ll see…there’s going to be plenty of work to do as well…

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A Christmas Country Journey to Dorset

December 31, 2008 at 2:38 pm (Life, Photography, flickr)

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Ah, Christmas…seems so long ago now. Especially after a working week at LBi. We headed down to Fifehead Magdalen in Dorset to spend some time amongst the cows and horses – and enjoy some fine food along the way. I managed to squeeze in some photography and some guitar amongst other things. Fab…

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Camera lust

November 6, 2008 at 9:29 am (Photography) (, , )

Well I wish it hadn’t happened, but it has. The other day at work I was checking out the prices for full frame Canon cameras and had started getting a little teeny bit interested in the Canon D5 Mark I – especially now that Amazon have knocked £600 from the price.

Then someone showed me this piece of video, shot by Vincent Laforet with the upcoming Mark II D5. Stunningly good looking, but the camera is £2000….slightly out of my range but techno-lust does strange things to a person…

Damn. Want one.

UPDATE: another piece of video here. Possibly more realistic (and more shaky :)

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Reputation…or…history?

November 4, 2008 at 3:44 pm (Community, Community2.0, Social web, Web 2.0, internet)

Interesting piece that positions traditional views of reputation against a sense of history. In a world where everything is increasingly recorded, it asks if this is more important than an ephemeral sense of someone’s worth. Facts versus ‘opinion’…

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The Cult of the Amateur Professional

November 3, 2008 at 9:23 am (Social web, Web 2.0, flickr, twitter) (, , , , , )

It seems my return to blogging is out of time. The blogosphere is now rife with professional bloggers, online magazines and long-form writers, according to Wired. Instead it’s much easier to post pictures to Flickr and send Twitter updates.

True ‘dat.

But I guess it depends what you want or need out of writing in public…and if audience size ain’t your prerogative or you’re not eking out a living from your bloggy skills then what the hell. It’s not gonna stop me, I tell you…

UPDATE: Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 seems to point the same way, although it’s interesting that it backs up blogging as being a more reflective approach to writing than many of the upstart microblogging tools allow.

I agree – blogging for me has always been about the ritual of deepening my knowledge in a particular issue. It forces you to critique, to have a position and to enter the conversation…assuming that you have an engaged audience, of course. Otherwise you’re blowing smoke into a gale…

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Obscure and overlooked

November 2, 2008 at 6:19 pm (Life, Music)

An odd feeling, nostalgia. And when it’s brought back by someone else’s perspective I’m not sure how to react. Anyways, it was interesting to read a post on Left and To the Back about some music that I was once involved with. Especially as playing the guitar is starting to become a part of my life again…

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One London summer…

November 2, 2008 at 5:28 pm (London, Photography, travel)

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog, and it’s time I got writing again. No excuses for why I’ve been neglecting it, but I guess I kind of fell out of love with the things I used to write about. A little bit of boredom. Malaise even.

So while I’ve been away, some of the things I’ve been up to:

:: I spent a weekend near Toulouse, at Le Chateaux de St Martory, at the wedding of two old friends

:: had a fab weekend at the End of the Road festival, in Dorset. Some pics of a semi-wet, but mostly lovely weekend in the country.

:: I became a semi-pro photographer, by taking photos at one wedding and one party full of people interested in luxury bathroom fittings. I tell ya, it was surely a rock’n'roll evening.

:: I’ve been working on some interesting projects for LBi, and getting involved in lots of other work too. Nice to be back in the East though.

So, more to folllow…

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Google’s Friend Connect

May 13, 2008 at 10:34 am (Community, Social web, User experience, Web 2.0, digital, internet) (, , , , , , )

So now Google jumps into the fray with their Friend Connect, a universal profile that will allow people to maintain one single profile across a number of different social sites. This concept has been talked about for ages now, and I guess it’s good that we’re seeing it come into fruition, with a number of other high profile sites such as Facebook and Myspace making similar plays.

It’s all about data portability, and that has to be a Good Thing, but I really do wonder how each of these sites intend to capture those ‘first use’ users that haven’t stepped into the social web world? Surely the valuations of all the major social players are based on the numbers of people registering with them, their data, and the friends that they bring with them – and as such, are we going to see a shift in how we measure their success on the back of this?

Via: Mashable

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Service Systems

May 1, 2008 at 3:48 pm (Business 2.0, Environment, User experience, business, customer experience, internet, service science) (, , , , )

Wow. I happened across a white paper produced by IBM & Cambridge University, with the title ‘Succeeding Though Service Innovation‘. It’s a first stab at trying to draw some shape onto what is essentially a fragmented, cross-disciplinary domain, and I have to say, it’s pretty bloody good. Read the rest of this entry »

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