June 2008
BBC NEWS | England | Barton admits team-mate... →
Premier League footballer Joey Barton has admitted assaulting a former team-mate in a training ground row.
Yahoo! set for shake-up as executives leave in... →
The departures include Jeff Weiner, head of its network division, Vish Makhijani, general manager of its search business, and Qi Lu, leading engineer for its Panama search marketing platform.
Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design →
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways to create hand drawn images — you can create it from scratch in Photoshop…
The wait is over: symfony 1.1 released →
As you may know, we have been working for a very long time on the next stable version of symfony. Now the day has come to celebrate the immediate availability of the long awaited 1.1 stable release…
Being Specific When Analyzing a Job →
When you analyze a job, avoid shorthand words. Spell out what you mean. If you mean “able to communicate across geographical distances and cultures and time zones verbally and in writing, without…
Beachballin' - What could we have done? →
A person with the knowledge they have now, who lived a thousand years ago, would have been a God. Gunpowder, microchips, aluminium, penicillin - a lot of things have happened in the last thousand…
UK housing slump hits Newsquest-owner Gannett -... →
The worsening conditions in the UK housing market have hit US media company Gannett, which is to write down its asset value by as much as $3bn (£1.5bn) following a steep decline in ad revenues.
Gumtree MD Monro heads to property site - Brand... →
Fledgling property site Zoopla.co.uk has hired Doug Monro, a former managing director at classified ads portal Gumtree, as its chief operating officer.
Record 9m tune in to watch McQueen crowned... →
The final of ‘The Apprentice’ pulled in a record 8.9m viewers last night, as Lee McQueen, a 30-year-old recruitment sales manager, was picked by Sir Alan Sugar to head the sales team of a new digital…
NI considers axing MD roles - Brand Republic News... →
News International is considering axing the managing director role across its newspaper brands as part of moves that could lead to a merger of its operations.
The FLIRT model of crowdsourcing - an analytical... →
I write from time to time here about mass collaboration - and it is something I have been thinking about more recently as I read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell I’m…
40 Sites You Might Actually Use →
There are plenty of lists out there that do a good job of telling you the best applications for whatever occasion you could come up with. I decided to avoiding you what is “best” and…
Social Q&A Community Site, SodaHead.com Raises... →
Los Angeles, Calif.-based SodaHead.com has raised $8.4 million Series B from Mohr Davidow Ventures and Mission Ventures. SodaHead is a site that encourages users to create/vote on public…
The FLIRT Model of Crowdsourcing - The Updated... →
easyJet say no to Expedia.co.uk - legal action... →
Interesting story going on as reported by The Register
Budget airline easyJet has warned Expedia.co.uk to stop selling its flights via its website or face the possibility of legal action.
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Amazon's Bezos Invests in Twitter -... →
Twitter just announced yet another sum of funding, this including money from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezo’s fund Bezos Expeditions. The company says the money will be spent on building up its…
InfoQ: CohesiveFT's Elastic Server On-Demand -... →
Complexity really is a growing problem for people. Every day we are hit with “more of everything” - more software choice, more versions, more systems and more business change. And soon - with more virtualization - more VMs. How many VMs will there be in your organization in 2010? How will they be manufactured and provisioned and will this be done in the same way as it is today? InfoQ spoke with...
Free beer and pizza at CloudCampLondon on 16 July →
We’re sponsoring the beer and pizza at CloudCamp when it comes to London on July 16th 2008, so come along and join us in this free community event hosted by Skills Matter and our technology…
Faceparty tells critics to F*** Off, suspends... →
Owners of the somewhat idiosyncratic FaceParty, one of the UK’s oldest social networks, appear to have had an altercation - with almost their entire user-base. On Tuesday night the normal home…
SproutCore » home →
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CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers Available for... →
This is great timing. Just as Tony is flying to San Francisco to take part in the Structure 08 Panel discussion on Cloud Computing, we have a big announcement to make.
As of today…
Nokia Acquires Symbian, Ready to Battle iPhone and... →
Yesterday’s news that Nokia acquired location based social network Plazes, was worthy only of making our Pilgrim’s Picks. Today’s news that Nokia has acquired mobile platform Symbian–and…
Ecommerce Innovations Webinar Recap | Get Elastic →
A summary of Elastic Path’s web seminar on ecommerce innovations, from video to Rich Media to customer loyalty programs.
Home - Polyvore →
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DecisionStep - Inspiring Decisions Online →
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knickerpicker.com – ladies Bras, Knickers, Thongs,... →
Try before you buy at knickerpicker.com the worlds first online video dressing room – lingerie, bras, swimwear, knickers, thongs, sportswear and nightwear from over 50 leading brands. Saved…
News | IPC buys free-games site Mousebreaker - NMA →
“Mousebreaker doubles our portfolio’s digital reach of UK young men,” he said. “It’s an attractive proposition for advertisers, delivering a highly targeted and loyal audience. We have some exciting…
The symfony 1.1 architecture →
The symfony 1.1 architecture Before we release symfony 1.1 later this week, I want to give some information about the new symfony 1.1 architecture. Apart from the new exciting features we…
Mike Kruckenberg: Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon... →
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Last session of the MySQL UC is Jim Starkey giving an introduction to the new Falcon storage engine. Jim is an icon in the database field, was the creator of MVCC and the BLOB…
Firebird News » Jim Starkey: “Well, here we go... →
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For those of you who didn’t hear, today is my last day at MySQL, and Monday will be my first day as Chief cook, CEO, and bottle washer of NimbusDB, Inc., a software start up…
UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0 →
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Will Falcon fly? →
Social Networking Software Kwiqq →
Kwiqq is a social networking software designed for rapid deployment, simple setup and easy extensibility . Each installation is fully customisable, scalable and skinable. Saved By: Paul…
How to send emails in symfony 1.1 →
Sending mails is a web developer’s everyday task, and symfony 1.1 let you do this easier than ever using Swift Mailer. Swift Mailer is a well thought, fully featured PHP5 object library that will…
Magento Version 1.0.19870.2 Available for Download →
We have just released Magento Version 1.0.19870.2. This version includes a few bug fixes, detailed in the release notes.
Instructions for Upgrading Magento with a full package, via SVN, via…
How to create an optimized version of your website... →
symfony 1.1 introduces native support for different formats and mime-types. This means that the same model and controller can have different templates based on the requested format. The default…
AJAX Libraries API - Google Code →
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Google mobile maps adds public transport... →
For anyone with a Blackberry or newish mobile phone, Google’s mobile maps application is an absolute must-have application and best of all it’s free. I’m regular travel around London to attend…
LukeW: Web Application Form Design →
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The PHP Benchmark →
PHPBench was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed. You may be surprised at the results PHPBench generates. It was also…
The PHP Benchmark →
PHPBench was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed. You may be surprised at the results PHPBench generates. It was also…
Hughes sets high Man City targets →
Manchester City’s new manager Mark Hughes has targeted making the club a major force in the Premier League and across Europe.
Sneak Peek: Magento Version 1.1 Features →
Magento Version 1.1 is fast approaching. Varien’s Yoav Kutner and Chris Marshall sat down to discuss the features which will be added as part of the upcoming release, expected at the end of…
Hughes becomes Man City manager →
Mark Hughes has been appointed as the new manager of Manchester City after signing a three-year contract
The Official "Successful Website Checklist... →
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While the BBC fiddles, Britain’s innovation burns →
Ok, so that might be a rather strong headline, but it was the best I could think of to describe what is currently going on. (That’s Nero fiddling while Rome burns, btw).
It’s no secret that I am
How Hard Could it Be?: Adventures in Office Space... →
There will be a big lunchroom, because we all eat together, as well as a coffee bar, a lounge, a 180-gallon saltwater aquarium, the aforementioned shower, a library with reclining chairs for naps,…
News | IPC's Kevin Brown joins ad agency - NMA →
Ad agency Brothers and Sisters has appointed former IPC digital chief and Virgin media TV interactive chief, Kevin Brown.
Searchme Visual Search →
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