Category Archives: cloud

Houses and clouds

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dave

The Government Digital Service blog is essential reading. Two recent posts well worth a look: What is that beautiful house? The phrase “not a CMS” has become a bit of a joke around the GovUK office (to the point where … Continue reading →

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Clouds v cartels

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Dave

Interesting article by the erstwhile US government CIO Vivek Kundra, in the New York Times: AS the global economy struggles through a slow and painful recovery, governments around the world are wasting billions of dollars on unnecessary information technology. This … Continue reading →

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When clouds don’t taste so delicious

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Dave

There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to find … Continue reading →

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The network is the computer

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Dave

Google announced a bunch of stuff last week, finally bringing to the mainstream some bits of tech that have been bubbling away for a few years now. One is the Chrome operating system, a lightweight OS for netbooks that pretty … Continue reading →

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6 months of Google

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Paul McElvaney

Paul McElvaney, Director at Learning Pool, posts an update on how the company is faring with Google’s suite of enterprise tools for email, calendaring etc. Learning Pool moved its corporate systems like email, calendaring and document storage into a Google … Continue reading →

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