Giving 20%
The world of the internet moves pretty quickly. New ideas and ways of approaching problems on the web are cropping up all the time. We keep a close eye on the things that go on in the world of the web, learn new processes and techniques which can help our clients’ sites work better.
Google Wave sinks, fast
Image by Shekhar_Sahu via Flickr Recently Google announced that it’s next generation email/IM/collab tool would be scrapped (http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/wave-goodbye-to-google-wave/) just a year after a huge wave (see what I did there?) of PR and spin from the inventor of Google itself, Sergey Brin. Just over a year later it has sunk. Usefully, Google are keeping the [...]
Farming in a virtual future
Image via Wikipedia China is seeing the rise of online “Gold Farming” This is the practice of hiring a group of mainly poor kids to ply their way through the myriad of online games (Everquake, World of Warcraft et al) collecting things of value to other gamers such as gold, potions, weapons etc. These items [...]
First FREE space for creative minds in Yorkshire
From September 1st, Connected are throwing their doors open to any creative types What? Yup, we’re opening 1,500 sq ft of cool office space to anyone who wants to use it We already have quite a few friends and clients who use our office space and we thought, “to hell with, invite everyone In” Great [...]
From The Smoke to The Snow and back again
Sitting here with my coffee, sandwich, unfinished crossword and contemplating another of my now regular monthly trips from London to Halifax, I think it’s been a particularly productive few days. Aaron’s presentation revealed impressive progress on the new release of Vites; not least because of a 400% speed increase, an automated transition to the use [...]
Project management…collaboration stylee
We rolled out Basecamp company-wide in January 2008 and now manage around 70 live projects in a wonderfully collaborative manner. It dramatically changed how the organisation worked internally and many of the clients subsequently took up using the application themselves for other projects.
Changing from an ugly and ill-formed email-based system into a simple, fast and cloud-enabled application has reduced costs, increased control and brought a whole host of really important improvements to how we work…
