I’ve been spending most of the weekend writing my professions case. Professions cases are used to qualify for certain levels of accreditation within the Professions structure. It is, essentially, an internal IBM qualification. There are different Professions streams for different job types (Project Management, Architects, Software Engineers etc.) and I am in [...]

Eric Rice has some good anecdotal evidence on how people seem to approach things like Second Life

The electric sheep company have announced Major League Baseball in Second Life and are selling tickets

Robert Scoble talks about the risks and intent of blogging

Yesterday, Roo and I went to New Place to talk to a group of IBMers about innovation. It was quite odd for us to be back at New Place, both of us had spent two days there in the olden days (1997 and 1998) for our IBM assessment center, to see if we were [...]

Apologies for the title but I just needed to some way work in the name of the book i’m currently reading, “Everyware” by Adam Greenfield. He manages to get through an impressive list of technology areas in the book, neatly knitting together a story of ubiquitous computing that encompasses the more obvious topics of RFID, Motes, Mesh Networks and Mobile Devices with Web Mashups, IPV6 and a plethora of everyday gadgets.

On Monday I went up to Leicester with some other folks from the Lab to run an event called ‘Innovation in Practice’ for some new hires into our services teams within IBM… All in all it was a great fun day, hopefully resulting in the attendees leaving with some useful skills.

Roo ponders the advantages of ‘ambient’ technology, and the custom Availabot online status monitor reminds him of a wireless penguin.

An interesting group dynamic in the Wimbledon bunker

across the board examination of how brands have to take opportunities in the virtual space