TUC: Let staff use network sites [during lunch breaks!] (BBC Tech news) – Peter Mooney, of Employment Law Advisory Services says “Why should employers pay for the privilege of allowing their employees to access Facebook, MySpace or Bebo from work computers whether in an employee’s lunch-time or not?” What on earth is going on?
Facebook ‘costs businesses dear’ (BBC Tech news) – “If a company can police the system, and only allow limited access during lunch breaks then that is fine. However I think it would be easier and less expensive to ban access altogether”. Better make sure they don’t have access to a telephone too!
Viral Video Chart – Does what it says on the tin… with popularity trend sparklines!
How to give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support – “If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under and overexposure highlighting…
The Campus of Corporation… [IBM in SL] – Very detailed review by a visitor to IBM’s sims in Second Life. One thing caught my eye: “I checked, and no, the model does not contain a model of the model where the model should be” – must fix! :-)
IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community – This makes me happy: “The OpenOffice.org community … today welcomed IBM as a community member. IBM has announced immediate code contributions and ongoing engineering support to the community, and will leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its own produc
Soundtracker – because your life needs a soundtrack – “Are you the sort of person who has a specific playlist for when you’re travelling on a train, in summer, when it’s raining and you’re feeling sleepy? Then register and start sharing your life’s soundtrack.”