For Stayokay I was looking for software which would allow us to improve the organization and usage of logo’s and photo’s. Apparently the term for software which does this is digital asset management or media asset management. Being indoctrinated with 37signal‘s software-approach I started my quest with several rules in mind:
No dirty hands – no [...]
Voyeuristic tendencies on social networks are easily exploitable. And LinkedIn apparently keep good track of it. They made this nifty holiday greeting. As LinkedIn allows you to see ‘Who’s Viewed Your Profile?’ many people, including myself, find themselves clicking there every once and awhile. To drool over “potential future employers” or just to discover their [...]
By a twist of destiny I attended a one-day workshop for the development of an air quality measurement device. The workshop was initiated by Ed Borden (Pachube) and preceded by two other workshops held in Amsterdam and New York. Instead of endless philosophizing about the ever imminent Internet of Things (or [...]
Started working on a tiny Rails-app called Elenco (Italian for ‘list’). It is basically a reformulation of the classic ’company directory’:
Firstname Lastname Email Etc.
Such a mundane task for people to find other people within your organisation/corporation, but most of the times the solution offered: just sucks! Hopefully this will solve the problem for me and [...]
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