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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Crowd-sourcing becoming a mainstream concept

Monday, December 4, 2006

This article from the Director Magazine sets out to explain crowd-sourcing to members of the Institute of Directors. It’s viewed in the article as a new resourcing model companies can adopt, and describes developments like Wikipedia as examples of ways the Internet can be used to harness the efforts of the many. This is a [...]

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Christmas in London

Sunday, December 3, 2006

I’ve started a collection of photographs showing Christmas around London, with some shots taken today on the South Bank. The illuminated cement mixers are great: I really think the Festival Hall team have done a fantastic job of making the area an attraction while they’re renovating. The album is here.

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Trying a Skype phone

Saturday, December 2, 2006

I’m trying out a wi-fi Skype phone, the SMC one that Skype are promoting. The sound quality is very good, but I’m not finding many places where I can use it yet. It seems the wi-fi network provider The Cloud is about to launch a Skype service that will specifically support this phone, so I’ll [...]

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