Posted on March 10th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
In the wings looms heavily a general election. You hadn’t noticed? So far by the leaders of the political parties there has been limited (success) social media engagement. So Facebook or Twitter; Tory, LibDem or Labour: Which is it to be?
Posted on March 9th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
Online, whose responsibility is it then to safeguard us?
It is unrealistic to propose a social network lock down. Web profiles can reveal (and also hide) so much. This would be a darkness falling on personal freedoms at the loss of the flow and expression of social information. Many of those incidental connections simply would not be possible without the freedom to create Profiles, send requests, respond and grow with our networks.
Posted on March 8th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
Have you been onto Bing recently? If you have then you may have noticed in the bottom right hand corner of the site there’s a call to action for their users, to sign up and support Sports Relief through the use of Bing search. For every 10 searches you make on Bing they will donate [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010
Written by Dr Mariann Hardey
Who/what will be 2010s key influencer’s? In the run up to the General Election maybe it will be the highs (and no doubt lows) of politics and politicians. This time we have political ‘news’ and ‘views’ via their Twitter feeds. Here’s the crunch. First are we really that interested in what they tweet?
Posted on February 26th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
If you remember, last year brought the very first Ada Lovelace Day, Founded by Suw Charman-Anderson where loads and loads of bloggers, male and female wrote about their geeky, science, technology and mathematical inspirations. Well it’s coming back round again.
Keep the 24th March at the forefront of your mind for a blog post about who [...]
Posted on February 10th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
A number of weeks back I was invited along to Legally Blonde the Musical, it was the Gala evening and all the stars were out in support of the event. I was fortunate enough to be there as a result of the event sponsor Veuve du Vernay, who also sponsored the evening Gala.
The reason [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
We are still seeing significantly less women than men on the speaker circuits in the technology industry. Whilst many conference organizers aren’t too worried about this, there are a few who are looking to make change happen in this area. Andy Budd of Clearleft is one of these. He’s been working with developers for years [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
A short while ago I came across a fantastic little tweet courtesy of my lovely followers! It was all about a new board game which I’m hoping to get my hands on to review and see how good it is. In essence it’s a board game that teaches the fundamentals of object orientated programming through [...]
CrunchGear have released their live stream for the Apple Announcements over in San Francisco.
In case you’ve been struggling to find the links or the information I’ve included the live stream here below! Enjoy!
Watch live streaming video from crunchgear at livestream.com
To see all the latest Apple stories you can keep track of them over on TweetMeme.
Posted on January 1st, 2010
Written by Sarah Blow
A while back I got the opportunity to catch up with some great people at the Beam Presents event, and chat to them about their technologies, what they do and how young people might be able to get into something like their jobs.
The second of these video’s to be released out into the wild is [...]
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