Author: nickjones

Last night entertainment was visiting the Insync Technology 2.0 event presented by Dave Green of NTK. The 01Zero-One centre is conveniently located just behind the main red light area in Soho. The event was packed (about 100), interestingly, given last weeks conference, there were around 25 -30% females. The highest proportion yet seen by me […]

This site i would imagine is Ellee’s nirvana. OK this is the Canadian Tories but who knows if the UK will be next. Especially now that Ellee has garnered support from Tim Worstall

Interesting story in The Guardian about Murdoch bringing out a version of Myspace (see my earlier post) for UK Sun readers called MySun. Sounds a great idea to kick some life into the UK blogging scene. Found on business2business

If you go to www.finance.google.com you can now enter your portfolio and track it. Or more precisely if you are in the USA you can. The rest of the world gets :- will support international symbols soon So Yahoo is still in the lead… Thanks to memeorandum and Silicon Beat for the story.

Just back with Em from a very enjoyable talk given by Simon Baron-Cohen on Gifted Scientists and Autism – Is there a connection? as part of the Cambridge Science Festival He quickly dismissed the work done on finding autistic traits from the biographies of Newton and Einstein as been unfair, unreliable and unclear even though […]

Just started to use My Blog Log to gather statistics on folks using this blog. Really very interesting the search terms people are using to find it. such as “revolution health” “weekends in krakov” Heres a screenshot taken from it:-

Excellent quote::HorsePigCow:: life uncommon: SXSW Highlights: “‘Technology is about enabling people. DRM (Digital Rights Management) is about disabling people. DRM is the opposite of what technology should do.’ Ian Clarke (Freenet), Commons-Based Business Models” I’m sure Cory Doctorow would agree

On Friday I attended the Technology and Gender Inequalities conference at CRASSH here in Cambridge the event was part of the Social Science Week. I was prompted to go by Shelleys article on Burningbird about the Our Social World Conference I held last year and her comments about the lack of women attending. Another reason […]

A VC (Who I note has a similar personality profile to me) has an interesting article about Myspace. I find it interesting that most parents I speak to here in the UK are not even aware of Myspace’s existence, even though Murdoch bought it for $580m in July 2005, and that most of their kids […]

Is this is an example of Doc Searls intention economy at work? Rogier Mulder’s Apple magSafe power connector burnt up so he posted pictures onto Flickr. Apple apparently saw the pictures ,asked for them to be taken down. But here is the good bit “Apple support responded very well (thanks Klaas) and fast. Before Icalled […]