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February 2008
February 04, 2008
Thoughts on Goowy
February 04, 2008
Yes, there’s another integrated Web-based environment for providing access to email. calendar, instant messaging, etc, as well as having a widget environment which provides extensibility. The service is called Goowy. I have just been notified of this service via a tweet from Techcrunch which has just announced that “AOL Acquires Goowy (in this case ...
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February 07, 2008
Is That A Pistol In Your Pocket?
February 07, 2008
Mae West asked “Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?” Last night when I went out rapper sword dancing around the pubs in Bath the bulges in my pocket were due to my Casio Ex-Z1080 digital camera, Nokia N95 phone and iPod MP3 player. It struck me that the processing power, ...
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February 08, 2008
Baggy Trousers
February 08, 2008
Yesterday in a post on Is That A Pistol In Your Pocket? I wondered what type of mobile devices we would be carrying on our person in 5 years time. James Clay “wonder[ed] if the devices will get bigger rather than smaller?” as the screen size is a factor for viewing images and ...
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February 10, 2008
IT Service Blogs
February 10, 2008
In a post last month entitled UCISA Award for UK Web Focus Blog I mentioned that I’ll be giving a talk on blogging at a UCISA workshop an Innovation and Communication which will take place on Thursday 14th February 2008. I’m currently ‘ finalising my slides - which, incidentally, are available on the event’s Wetpaint wiki. ...
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February 11, 2008
Boycott of the Premier League
February 11, 2008
“Supporters threaten boycott of Permier League spnsors over foreign fixture plans” read a headline on the front page of the Guardian’s Sport section on Monday 11th Febuary 2008. I can sympathise with those views, but if I wanted to support such a boycott where would I go? Well a search for “boycott premier league” in Facebook found ...
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February 13, 2008
The Oxford vs Cambridge Race
February 13, 2008
No, not the boat race - which has the most popular Web site, Oxford or Cambridge University? We don’t know, has been the traditional view. The data is only available on the institution’s Web server and there’s no point in making such data publicly available. But this isn’t quite true. If you go to the Alexa traffic ...
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February 15, 2008
Losing My Religion
February 15, 2008
I discovered the Web in December 1992 and, after Christmas, helped to set up the institutional Web site at the University of Leeds. Later that month I met Robert Cailliau, a colleague of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, when Robert was in Leeds visit relatives. Robert gave me the background to the developments of the Web and ...
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February 18, 2008
TwitPic, Twitterwhere, Twitterfoo
February 18, 2008
On Sunday 10th February 2008 infobunny twittered “TwitPic: TwitPic lets you easily add photos to your Tweets. Upload to TwitPic, add you.. Twitpic was new to me so I Googled it and discovered that the killerstartups blog gave a somewhat politically incorrect description of how a photographic microblogging extension to Twitter might be used: Yes, Twitter ...
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February 19, 2008
Distributed Discussions On Repositories
February 19, 2008
The Repositories Debate Andy Powell recently wrote a post on the eFoundations blog about his opening plenary talk at the VALA 2008 conference. His post generated interesting discussions and debate amongst those involved in repository activities in the UK and the wider community. Paul Miller was in agreement with Andy’s comments in his post on the Panlibus ...
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February 20, 2008
IT Services - Set Your Documentation Free!
February 20, 2008
Back in 2005 I presented a paper entitled “Let’s Free IT Support Materials!” at the EUNIS 2005 conference, an annual conference aimed at IT support departments throughout Europe. In the paper I argued that IT Service departments should be making their documentation and other support materials available under a Creative Commons licence for reuse by the ...
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February 21, 2008
GCSEs Revisited
February 21, 2008
It always pleasing when a blog post achieves its aim, and even more so when this happens so quickly. So it was good to read AJ Cann’s post in which he describes how he spent 3 minutes using the Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE) to provide an alternative to his institutional search engine. As he titled hois post ”It was ...
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February 22, 2008
Is Southampton Setting A New Standard For Institutional Web Sites?
February 22, 2008
Is the University of Southampton setting a new challenge for other institutions with their new iSoton service, I wonder? Or is this merely an attempt to be stylish by bolting on a variety of Web 2.0 features? What will the users make of it, I wonder? And what about accessibility, interoperability, compliance with standards and the other issues which ...
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