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Comment on Why Shoreditch needs a Village Hall and how you can help build it for the local and tech communities by David Altheer

David Altheer — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:44:24 +0000

For my news website to have missed this, I must have been sleeping. It seems a good story.

Comment on Why Shoreditch needs a Village Hall and how you can help build it for the local and tech communities by Anton

Anton — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:51:08 +0000

That is a great idea, James! Working to make life of a community better is a great deed.

Makes me want to move to Shoreditch.

Comment on Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web by Luis

Luis — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:17:21 +0000

You know the term is vendor relationship *management*, right? Still not great but much better than marketing

Comment on Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web by Donnie Berkholz

Donnie Berkholz — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:29:31 +0000

So, if developers are living in the future and they reject the permission culture, is that where things are going to go with the permission-based web for users as well?

Maybe the problem is that you can’t make a single decision about what data you’re willing to share with what categories of entities. Instead you’re stuck going through a million dialogs every time you want to share the same info with yet another social network.

Comment on Why Applications Are Like Fish and Data is Like Wine by Amazon and the reintermediation of the spectacle | Smethurst

Amazon and the reintermediation of the spectacle | Smethurst — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:16:51 +0000

[...] Applications Are Like Fish and Data is Like Wine [...]

Comment on Investment in Place and People: Why I am looking for help funding a fantastic new Shoreditch Works space by Shoreditch Works | London Coworking | Kickstarter and crowd funding

Shoreditch Works | London Coworking | Kickstarter and crowd funding — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:51:27 +0000

[...] of SW James Governor, has just blogged about finding a 150k loan to fund this project, but alongside this we’re going to be launching a kickstarter campaign [...]

Comment on Big Data Comes To London – open source makes the market. by dai clegg

dai clegg — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:08:51 +0000

Acunu is supporting Cassandra users, and has been for a while in Europe, but our main business is tools and run-time for developers building very high-velocity real-time analytics applications on top of Cassandra.

We used to ship our own storage management layer for Cassandra, but don’t need to now, because we donated the key part of it – Virtual Nodes – to Cassandra 1.2

Comment on On The Importance of Design at IBM: Love and Margins. by Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:52:36 +0000

It will be very interesting to see what IBM releases in the next few years. Unlike Apple, they are focused squarely on enterprise and can make huge wins by implementing best practices already learned in the consumer space. They could become innovators again if they learn how to conduct and use user research.

Thanks for the post.

Comment on The most developer savvy reporters and editors in the UK by jgovernor

jgovernor — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:08:47 +0000

meeting CEOs and CIOs doesn’t make you developer savvy, Jason, it makes you management savvy. but clearly on harmonica duets you win

Comment on The most developer savvy reporters and editors in the UK by Jason Stamper

Jason Stamper — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:59:45 +0000

Yes, me! I’ve met more CEOs and CIOs than this lot put together. I have interviewed the people who wrote Unix — yes, the original one at Bell Labs, not the sloppy Linus T copy; I’ve met James Gosling four times (once when he didn’t have a beard); I know what two-phase commit is and I taught myself guitar. And I have played harmonica with Lembit Opik. Beat that!