• IA One Sheeters
  “One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They’re like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company.”
  (tags: IA webdesign reference information usability documentation)
• Wikisky
  Detailed images of space. Amazing!
  (tags: astronomy space maps wiki visualization images)

Do The Green Thing’s latest ad. Their theme this month: stick with what you’ve got.

The fabulous Horsesmouth team is looking for a community manager. Are you just the person they are looking for? Get in touch with me (kcorrick at gmail dot com) if you’re interested.

Community Manager/Website Editor for horsesmouth.co.uk
£25-30k

Will “own” and manage the horsesmouth.co.uk site and community on a daily basis. They will create, generate and drive the topics, content and tools that will inspire, motivate and build the community and which keeps it fresh, rewarding and self generating.

The Community Manager/Website Editor will act as first point of contact between the user community and horsesmouth, and will work in partnership with and provide key inputs to the horsesmouth team. They will drive and execute link strategy for the site and will oversee policy, SEO and SEM strategy and website analytics. They will report regularly on site activity and will manage and liaise with the outsourced moderation team. They will also supervise the horsesmouth blog and ensure key inputs are regularly provided.

The successful candidate will need to show a strong track record in a similar role, either as a community manager or site editor, and ideally with user-generated content or community based sites. You must be familiar with web content management and analytics systems and must be able to make basic HTML changes to the system. Excellent written and other presentational skills are a must and public speaking experience is an advantage.

• gskinner.com: gBlog: Failure to Unload: Flash Player 9’s Dirty Secret
  “Flash Player has severe problems with separation anxiety - once it’s loaded some content, it has a really hard time ever letting it go. Technically speaking, it is extremely difficult to make Flash Player 9 unload ActionScript 3 content.”
  (tags: Flash AS3 article)
• We Tell Stories
  Six writers, six weeks, experiment by Penguin in interactive storytelling.
  (tags: narrative storytelling books penguin fiction writing)

• Chart of the Day: A Breakdown of Facebook Applications | FlowingData
  (tags: facebook applications data analytics statistics stats)
• FlowingData
  Data Visualization and Statistics site.
  (tags: analysis visualization data statistics stats analytics)
• BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Phorm boss talks targeted ads
  A really simple and understandable guide to Phorm
  (tags: Phorm advertising behavioural-targetting article)
• XiTi Monitor - Browser Barometer
  Mozilla Firefox on the verge of gaining 29% use share in the European countries.
  (tags: browser IE statistics stats analysis article)
• IAB UK : News : April-June : IAB/PwC Adspend Study H2 2007
  UK Internet advertising expenditure grows 38% year on year to reach £2.8 billion in 2007
  Market share was 16% for second half of 2007 as online exceeds forecasts
  (tags: advertising marketing research stats trends IAB)

… which is about half the amount the airline industry currently emits per year, according to a recent report by McKinsey, entitled Revolutionizing Data Centre Efficiency.
They isolate the primary drivers of poor inefficiency as:

• Poor demand and capacity planning within and across functions (business, IT, facilities)
• Significant failings in asset management (6% average server utilization, 56% facility utilization)
• Boards, CEOs, and CFOs are not holding CIOs accountable for critical data center facilities CapEx and data center operational efficiency

Their recomendations to improve the efficiency of data centres include transferring financial accountability of data center assets from Corporate Real Estate to the CIO and the appointment of an Energy Czar (presumably in the US).

In true McKinsey style there is a Power Point presentation (8mb) and an mp3 (22mb) that can be downloaded for those who would like further details.

• Welcome to Dixerit | Dixerit
  Dixerit creates a high-quality audio version of your web content in real-time. Our service offers your visitors an alternative way to access public and corporate information, listening to it online on their PC, on their mobile device while on the move or
  (tags: accessibility speech audio usability userexperience web mobile mp3)
• Dixero
  Import your favorite RSS feeds, organize in channels and vocalize with different voices, and download as a podcast on your device
  (tags: rss podcast audio feeds accessibility tool mp3 podcasting reader speech)
• Science Museum: Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-tech Britain
  Must go.
  (tags: culture design technology museum Britain exhibition science comics futurism)
• Trendpedia (beta) - Social media monitoring, buzz tracking, brand measurement and blog trend search
  Alternative to BlogPulse.
  (tags: trends tool blogging BlogPulse comparison analysis tracking stats statistics metrics)

• Rough Type: McKinsey surveys the new software landscape
  A new study, to be released today by McKinsey & Company, reveals in some of the clearest terms yet the sea change that is under way in business software.
  (tags: enterprise software service survey research mckinsey trends article)

• Free Music Downloads - Music Promotion - We7
  Ad-supported free music service
  (tags: advertising music downloads free)

• Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister
  “MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!”
  (tags: brainstorming collaboration tool ideas mindmapping socialsoftware)
• TWiki - the open source wiki for the enterprise
  TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. Typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool
  (tags: projectmanagement collaboration enterprise_level enterprise wiki opensource twiki software tool socialsoftware)
• Thinkature - Real-time collaboration for the web
  Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.
  (tags: brainstorming mindmapping collaboration tool socialsoftware software chat)
• Instructables - The World’s Biggest DIY & How To Show & Tell
  “Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.”
  (tags: collaboration howto MIT tutorials DIY ideas crafts)
• ConceptShare: Online Design Collaboration Made Easy
  Free tool. Upload your designs in a collaborative workspace. Collaborate, Stakeholders review, comment and markup designs.
  (tags: collaboration tool socialsoftware concepts design sharing)
• Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web
  Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground.
  (tags: collaboration whiteboard tool brainstorming chat conferencing socialsoftware)
• U.K. Cracks Down on Word-of-Mouth With Tough Restrictions - Advertising Age - Digital
  Coming Legislation Makes It a Criminal Offense for Brands to Falsely Represent Themselves as Consumers
  (tags: advertising law)