BandCentral have been shortlisted for a BidemNet Lab award at the world's premier music festival, Midem, Cannes.
The Online Band Management company, that lets anyone be a music manager, have recenty launched a revamped version of their site with souped-up features and cutting edge enhancements.
It was only a few short weeks ago that BandCentral joined the Digital Mission to New York, run in conjunction with UK Trade & Investment.
Google Wave is proving itself to be the perfect platform to discuss climate change. Debatewise Global Youth Panel (GYP) is using the technoloy to spark discussion and debate from young people about the state of the planet. During the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. Take that Twitter.
More than 1,000 members of the Debatewise Global Youth Panel (GYP), aged between 14 and 25, discussed the pros and cons of the conference using Google's new instant messaging platform, launched earlier in the year. It's hoped the parrallel discussions will give a good measure of how young people around the world feel about climate change and the steps being taken to tackle it.
Too many candidates, chasing too few jobs mean that you have to be just a little bit sleeker than your average to score that prized interview. It's tough out there, I tell you.
If you're churning out the CVs, rapid-fire style, have a read below and see. You could be missing a trick.
Sending a CV online is quick, free and gets your an instant response, even if it's a ping back aknowledgement. Unsuprisingly it's the most common way of applying for a job but at the same time a CV sent by email runs the risk of just festering in an inbox.
Rather than sending your CV as an attachment, paste it into the body of the email. Attachments are often ignored because people are worried about viruses and wasting time downloading documents. With this in mind, stay clear of multi-media CVs. They may make you stand out and prove your technical credentials with their singing, all dancing displays but they're awkward to download, never mind format.
UPDATE 1: @decappeal have been in touch with official banners.
UPDATE 2: Please use #techhaiti in tweets & blogs, tech volunteers and Crisis Camp.
I was working late when the news started to come in about the
earthquake in Haiti. The sense of something major unfolding on an
unimaginable scale reminded me of listening to the radio as I heard
reports of the tsunami.
What can you do? Put your hand in your pocket. Done.
Next up, spread the word using the channels at your disposal. For me, one of these is using the advertising space on Chinwag.com for worthy causes. We've helped Do The Green Thing in the past and using the space to help promote donations is a no-brainer.
I
did a lot of searching for banners to use, as I'm conscious of
copyright and keeping everything legit when there's money involved. I
tried Twitter to no effect and then through LinkedIn, was pointed in the direction of Oxfam Ireland who have a page full of banners (congratulations to their comms team for turning this round so quickly).
Unfortunately,
none of them fit the size used on Chinwag (MPU - 300x250), so I've
mustered my meagre design skills (and that's probably overstating the
case) to create a banner that'll have to do in the meantime:
We all love our iPhone apps. How did we possibly live without them?
There are green ones, dating ones, financial ones and ones that can even teach
your kids how to read. Even the free ones can let you do a background check on a blind date and
give you a turn at playing God.
So far the number of iPhone apps downloaded is sitting at a mind-blowing 2
billion. We're downloading from the app store at a rate of 6.6 million every day and
the market is worth an estimated $2.5 billion US dollars each year. That's
quite a hunk of cash.
Google announced the launch of their Nexus One phone on Tuesday, garnering the expected amount of geek love.
But, arguably the real revelation comes from the ecommerce site built to sell the phone, the only place you're going to pick one up in the near future.
Heralded by Business Week as an ecommerce revelation, Google have combined a pared down purchasing process with simple animations which demo the phone using a 3D feel rendered on the 2D computer screen. A nice touch.
Complicated charges, long contracts, complex fees and bundles are being
ushered out in favour of simply buying the device, then finding the
service. Unusually, the first option available is an unlocked version of the phone, although operator deals are available in the US with t-mobile with more on the way, and a European roll-out schedule (through Vodafone) for Spring 2010.
Move over Black Friday, Cyber Monday is where the action happens. Consumer spending is heading to the virtual high street as Christmas shoppers favour etailers over their bricks and mortar counterparts.
In the US, Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving, has been traditionally known as the busiest shopping day of the year. Accounting folklore suggests it's the day each year when retailers make it out of the red.
Official comScore figures reported a spend of $595 billion in online spend on this day, an 11% increase on the same day last year.
As our thoughts to turn the holiday dash round the country, to over-eat, over-drink and play with kids' new toys instead of making small talk with the in-law, Christmas is almost upon us.
But wait...there's still a few, well a lot, of work-related festive action to cram in before the last vestiges of real-world contact are swapped with chance meetings in Farmville in post-indulgence downtime.
We're rounded up just a few of the Christmas get-togethers listed on Chinwag's Digital Events Calendar for the next couple of weeks, which we're hoping to get along to:
Back in March this year AudioBoo proudly claimed their mission to be the YouTube of the spoken word.
And it looks like they're just about there. Previously available in iPhone and Android flavours, the Audioboo team have announced a browser-based version launching today. Get in there people.
Following in the intrepid techno-savvy footsteps of users like Stephen Fry, he's been known to say "night night" to his Twitter followers with
it, AudioBoo users will now be able to upload their recordings easily from their computers.
The service is PC and Mac compatible, runs on Safari and Firefox and the pre-launch jitters on IE are being smoothed out as I type. Unfortunately, there's no word about Chrome just yet.
Top UK Firms Selected for Prestigious US Digital Mission
