100 things posted by Alan Holding
Call for participants: A List Apart Survey 2008
Posted on July 30, 2008 in 2008, business, statistics, survey, web.
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. Following on from the survey conducted in 2007, A List Apart (a web magazine for people who make websites) is asking for participants in the worldwide 2008 survey of people who make websites.
New ideas on using public information: Show Us a Better Way
Posted on July 30, 2008 in competition, funding, government, ideas, mashup, opportunities, web.
The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated, and there’s a £20,000 prize fund to develop ideas.
USB flash drives: small device, major headache?
Posted on July 2, 2008 in eu, security.
The European Network and Information Security Agency has recently published a report which highlights the potential misuse of USB flash drives to breach security of corporate data or introduce malicious code.
Event: Want to meet 8 Venture Capitalists in one go?
Posted on July 2, 2008 in business, Events, manchester, opportunities.
On Tuesday 15th July 2008 at KPMG in Manchester you can discuss startup valuations with VCs from the USA, London, Newcastle, Manchester and Liverpool at Northern Startup 2.0. Places are limited so you should book now to secure a place.
Tony Wilson Experience blogathon
Posted on June 21, 2008 in blogging, manchester, tonywilsonexperience.
Keep up with what’s going on at the first Tony Wilson Experience with Paul Carruthers’s live blog.
Video: Big Chip 10
Posted on June 20, 2008 in 2008, bigchipawards, video.
Watch the video of this year’s Big Chip Awards, which celebrated some of the best work from the North West UK’s thriving digital sector.
Lets Go Global open day
Posted on June 20, 2008 in Events, internet, letsgoglobal, media, social, tv.
Lets Go Global (a creatively led Internet TV Channel based in Old Trafford, Manchester, UK) is having an open day on 3 July 2008. Why not go along and meet them, see their facililties and find out more about what they do. It’ll be dead interesting and there’ll probably be cake and vimto as well.
Northwest Vision and Media business support survey
Posted on June 20, 2008 in business, freelance, media, support, survey.
Are you a freelancer or business involved in media and digital content? Northwest Vision and Media want your views to help them develop a top notch business support programme. Take part in the survey and you could win an iPod.
Help make the Internet safer for children
Posted on April 25, 2008 in internet, security.
As part of the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme, Deloitte is looking for parents, schools and public libraries to help with a benchmarking study of Internet filtering software.
Manchester Art Gallery using 2D barcodes
Posted on April 23, 2008 in galleries, mobile.
Manchester Art Gallery is using 2D barcodes to help people find out more about objects in the Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery trail




