Hello, World

I've been a bit quiet on the blogging and twitter front lately. Not necessarily by choice, though. I've been flat stick preparing for the launch of a brand new shiny Intranet for MPOW. Well today it was unleashed on the staff and, I'm thankful to say, to almost exclusively positive reactions.

We had a few early morning hiccups but for the most part things went smoothly and by 2.00pm I was wondering what to do. It was a nice change from the last 2 or 3 weeks of feeling like there were so many things to do that I didn't know which one to do next.

I think I can give you a sneak peak...

Finally, I'd like to give the guys at Seamless a MASSIVE wrap. We shouldn't have launched today but for their amazing technical competence and supreme dedication, no matter what obstacles we presented them with. If anyone's in the market for a new CMS I can't recommend them highly enough.

Location Aware Data is NOW!

Check out this cool video of a new iPhone app that uses geo-location very impressively.



When access to the network is ubiquitous what data won't benefit from being location aware? What new services are we going to see?

Print on Demand Bookstores

Will print on demand bookstores change the game? I recently read this post written by someone who's perfect bookstore contained banks of Espresso Book Machines.

I personally think that bookstores offer more than just the option to purchase a book. There's no serendipity in getting a paperback printed from a print-on-demand book machine.

Then again...

I used to think that cover art was an essential part of the music buying experience along with the joy of flicking through racks of CDs. But I haven't bought a CD in a shop for, well, more than 4 years.

I wrote about it on the RISG New Tech blog.