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Posted by David Tebbutt on 25th August 2008.
Yet another security breach fo the Home Secretary to wrestle with. This time PA Consulting managed to lose a memory stick containing some rather sensitive information. According to the BBC, “The memory stick contained un-encrypted details about 10,000 prolific offenders as well as names, dates of births and some release date of all 84,000 prisoners [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th August 2008.
Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco (Sep 3-5). It would require a degree of diary shuffling and careful planning to justify my attendance. It still gobbles fuel, time and money so I’m still trying to decide what to do for the best.
No doubt the conference presentations [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 4th August 2008.
I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a slide show of web pages. Does that sound boring? I’m not sure it is.
Marjolein Hoekstra in the Netherlands (she calls herself CleverClogs for good reason) alerted me to one of the services, called Diigo. It started out in 2005 [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 16th June 2008.
Last week’s Web 2.0 Strategies conference in London brought together people who were anxious to find out whether and how to implement ‘Web 2.0′ in their organisations. They came with a generally favourable disposition towards the subject but most of those I spoke to were finding it difficult to engender enthusiasm among their senior management. [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 12th May 2008.
For three months, I have been using Xobni, a free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook which removes a lot of the pain of using this widely-used but widely-unpopular application.
If you have trouble remembering the product’s name, it’s ‘inbox’ backwards. It works by indexing all your emails, not just those in your inbox. This gives you instant [...]
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