Those nice folks at Joost sent me a goodie bag for being a beta user of their service: It consists of a Fancy Bag, Tee Shirt, Stickers, Thank you letter and some herbs.

I literally have no idea what these are. But pizza in a bottle sounds like my demographic.

Thank you Joost dudes.

Link: http://www.joost.com

Colin

Well the 27th of July came and went and the BBC’s launch of the iPlayer was a non event.

All you can do is register then wait to be invited.

Basically a glorified beta.

I am also not hopeful that as this is another Kontiki based DRM system its going to play nice with Channel4’s 4OD and Sky’s Anytime which also use Kontiki.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6916164.stm

In South Africa apparently.

This topic has been discussed for years but it seems they are actually test marketing it in that region.

As an IT Pro I sort do this anyway, every year I pay a subscription fee for the Microsoft Action Pack.

At the right price for consumers I think the renting of software would work.

In-fact get used to this concept, a few years from now when everything lives in your Internet browser, its the only payment model that applies.

Link: Site- All about Microsoft

Well here we are again, something so good on the Internet that people are wasting hours upon hours of company time and resources being social.

A study found British users spend on average 191 minutes a month on Facebook and dozens of people have admitted to being addicted to the site, where they message, “poke” and check up on friends and colleagues.

This one is complicated as some of it could be useful to businesses from a networking point of view.

However in reality the chances are employees are surfing on company time and at worst looking for another job.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/27/nface127.xml

This morning I attended a two hour seminar introducing Sage Line 200.

This was at the premises of sage solutions provider BDE Group in Warrington.

Line 200 with built in web based CRM looks really slick. To my eye it still looks like they are bashing two products together (CRM and Sage Accounts) but it all seems to work seamlessly.

The BDE guys were great hosts.

Link to Sage Line 200:

http://www.sage.co.uk/productsandservices/home.aspx?tid=131865&stid=301893&pid=301935

Link to BDE

http://www.bdegroup.co.uk/