The naming of Abelard,

October 30, 2011

I'm often asked how Abelard got the name that it did.

Peter Abelard - (1079 - April 21, 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. That affair ...

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Klout makes further changes....

October 19, 2011

Hot on the heels of algorithm development at Empire Avenue, Klout announced today that it will shortly be improving it's algorithm further. They've been presenting the three subscores, True Reach, Amplification and Network Impact, but it's the systems ...

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How well do you balance your ELF?

October 18, 2011

We all face blocks in what we do, blocks that stop us progressing, from learning, from developing. The challenge, first of all, is to be aware enough that we are being blocked, and the challenge after that is to find a way to break the block. That's wh...

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Empire Avenue's Algorithm development.

October 13, 2011

As Empire Avenue (EA) matures it needs to adapt and develop it's scoring algorithms to level the playing field and maintain interest - A tough call. Empire Avenue have always used two elements to determining your "share price", (effectively another onl...

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Digital Bristol - Bristol Young Students of the year award

October 12, 2011

Today I had the pleasure of meeting around 90 students from schools all over Bristol at the launch of the Bristol young student of the year awards held at the Merchant Venturers building, part of the School of Engineering at Bristol University. I'm one...

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What monuments to trust have you built?

October 8, 2011

Building trust is hard, yet breaching trust is rare, in my experience significant breaches of trust by those close to us are phenomenally rare,. Yet, despite this evidence we often fear trusting others and demand high hurdles for them to overcome.

Par...

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It's fading fast - Metrics gain a new importance

October 5, 2011

There's a problem brewing at Twitter, it's getting forgetful, and they are hiding search away.

Twitter's 'top tweets' search history only covers the last 4 or 5 days, if you try to go further back you get switched to real time search, i.e effectively...

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How Google plus wil be supporting business

October 1, 2011

Google plus is bringing business features to the interface, so be ready, but don't jump the gun.

The video gives an insight to what is coming, including analytic integration and ad words integration. That's seems really exciting to me, as by building...

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Social DNA - Mapping the menome

October 1, 2011

Increasingly the data we contribute to the web and the way that others interact with it is being measures and used to quantify and filter and subdivide and segment us. Brands are becoming more aware of the ways that they can use the data and social net...

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Why we have failed...

September 26, 2011

Today's announcement by BAe systems of another 3,000 jobs lost set me thinking. A great British company, great British skills, and experienced people being cast aside.

In 1940 my father was sent to ICI in Manchester to help develop polyurethane foam, ...

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