Business

22.10.09

Jamie

BarCamp Charlotte

BarCamp Charlotte
I had the pleasure of heading over to Area 15 in NoDa on Oct 17th for the second edition of BarCamp Charlotte. BarCamp is a user-generated conference, which encourages attendees to pitch for their chance to present a session on a topic of their choice.
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19.06.09

Jamie

When Dusted met Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

Earlier this week, I was invited along to my local Jelly session show as their special podcast guest to chat about Dusted’s plans to branch out into the United States. For the past few years, ‘local’ for me has been Charlotte, North Carolina where Dusted is soon to open its first overseas office. Read the rest of this entry »

01.04.09

Vilmar

It’s either a joke or a hoax

comic-sans

I was gobsmacked when reading about the [real] possibility of Comic Sans being chosen as the official typeface for the 2012 London Olympics. Read the rest of this entry »

20.03.09

Jack

Cloud computing and sustainable virtualization

cloud_01

Having just recently installed Live Sync, after a long and hard thought whether to indulge myself with Windows products. I begun to enjoy my first steps in exploring the capabilities in which cloud computing could help improve the way that I work. Read the rest of this entry »

09.03.09

David

Desk space at Dusted

Dusted office

Following the recent expansion of our London premises, we are now in the rather privileged position of offering part of our new office space for rent. For a moment, we did consider installing a small bowling lane, however this was discarded in favour of desks, but only really on the grounds of noise levels and economic growth. Read the rest of this entry »

01.09.08

David

Top-level decision made on domain names

During the late 90’s when the .com revolution was in full swing, I remember Iceland jumping (rather belatedly) on the bandwagon and renaming all their storefronts Iceland.co.uk as if this was all you needed to make an Internet business. Not sure how many storefronts Iceland have left to put back to their original format, but I wonder now whether they should hold on for a bit as a new revolution in domain naming has recently been approved by ICANN – the organisation which regulates many of the Web’s top-level domains. Read the rest of this entry »

17.06.08

David

You can’t turn a tanker round with a speedboat change

A photographer friend of mine told me today he didn’t want to be a photographer anymore, but instead, was going to be a ‘digital imaging poet’. Sounded like a great idea to me and we arranged to ‘touch base about it offline’ later (during one of our regular ‘idea showers’). We’ll no doubt be ‘getting our ducks in a row’ while looking to ‘leverage a holistic cradle-to-grave approach’ too. I think. Not sure… Read the rest of this entry »