Entrepreneurial Geekiness
Entrepreneurial Geekiness
Ian is a London-based independent Chief Data Scientist who coaches teams, teaches and creates data products. More about Ian here.
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BrightonDigital mail list keeps growing
Two months back Ivan and I started the Brighton Digital mail list for tech companies here in Brighton. We wanted to build a list which local companies can use to discuss their services and talk more openly about business.
To join – email ‘brightondigital-subscribe@yahoogroups.com‘ and you can find the archives here. Anyone in a small/mid-sized company with some some relation to technology is very welcome to come and introduce themselves on the list.
The list has been growing nicely over the past 2 months and now we’re at 51 members. We’ve had a bunch of interesting posts including:
- Introductions from new members, e.g. Nathan introducing his Latitude Hosting and Bruce introducing Madgex
- A discussion on the benefits of the New Product Network from the Innovation Centre
- Examples of how Wired Sussex has helped local companies
- Announces for events like the bi-weekly OpenCoffee at the Innovation Centre (all welcome!)
- An offer for desk-space in Brighton
Using OpenID for blog commenting
To leave a comment on Simon’s £5 App blog post I figured I might try OpenID (given that Simon is such an advocate).
Previously I’d looked at MyOpenID and I figured it couldn’t be too hard…it took 5 minutes to configure my user (http://IanOzsvald.myopenid.com/) and 1 minute to sign-in on Simon’s blog.
I can use this same ID on anyone’s site if they’re using OpenID – no need to make multiple sign-ons just to leave comments. Yay!
Jeremy Keith talks for £5 App on October 9th
Jeremy Keith will talk on building a social community around Irish Folk Music at our 7th Five Pound App meet. Please sign-up on Upcoming so I know how much beer to buy.
Simon Willison blogged about our 6th event and I wrote a short history. For those new to the idea – we took inspiration from a blog post on the ‘five buck idea’ to create the first event.
The Five Buck Idea pretty much lays it out, I love to closing description:
“…You want something simple, almost to the point of ridiculousness, and heck, worth probably about five dollars. Extra points if someone under 20 scoffs and says,
‘Shit man, I can code that up in a weekend.’”
I’ve grouped all of the write-ups for each evening under the £5 App Tag.
Brighton’s Open Street Map
Mikel Maron spoke at BarCamp last weekend on his progress towards finishing the Brighton OpenStreetMap. The demo was really nice – apparently it’ll be ‘finished’ by November in time for the Digital Festival.
I just tried out a demo – you can see the centre of Brighton with all the roads, train station, some of the footpaths and open spaces. The map looks really nice, I’m dead impressed. Now all I need is a GPS aware moby which could use this data.
eXpansys £10 voucher – someone please use it for me
I’ve just received a 4gb usb stick from eXpansys and I received a £10-off voucher (for a purchase over £20). It is valid until 4th October 2007 and I’m not going to use it – it says ‘use it or pass it on to a friend’.
If you’re going to make an order from eXpansys (I recommend them, have used them for years) then use voucher code ‘GSK4441389’ before 4th October for a £10 discount. Apparently you have to put the code into the ‘How did you hear about us?’ box in the checkout.
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