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Social Technologies and Stirrups

Given the surge in popularity of social network sites and the huge media coverage that these sites are engineering, it is not surprising that there has been a lot of sensationalist journalism about the negative effects that SNSs might/might not be having on our lives.     

YUI Redux

So, I mentioned the Geekup special featuring Christian Heilmann of Yahoo and YUI fame. If you didn’t manage to make it then you missed a great hoedown. Richard from Bluesky PR sourced some great Old Bear Beer and was also the resident barman ! Old broadcasting house provided a terrific venue and [...]

Back to the labs again

It’s that time of year. Rattle has been selected for the BBC Labs again. For those of you who don’t know, the BBC Labs is a “project to develop innovative new products and services with independent New Media companies from across the UK”. After last years success we’re really looking forward to working with the [...]

Mapping Social Media

I came across this really interesting article by Gene Smith only a few days ago.  Building on some work by Matt Webb, who assembled this list of the 8 most important elements to social software, almost 4 years ago now and Peter Morville’s user experience honeycomb, Gene created the ‘Social Software Honeycomb’ below.  

Geekup YUI Special

At this months Leeds Geekup we’re relocating to Old Broadcasting House, where we’ll be introducing Christian Heilmann who works for Yahoo! UK as a web architect.  He’ll be talking about the YUI Javascript library and other things Yahoo.
Christian is a member of the Web Standards Project’s DOM Scripting Task Force and has written a number [...]