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A group of residents in San Francisco is proposing to rename a sewage plant after President George W. Bush as a "tribute to the leader who plumbed the nation to incompetence." Brian McConnell, a member of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco and one of the proponents of the proposal, said the move has already generated support of over 10,000 signatures which they will submit before...
Brian McConnell says: The Worldwide Lexicon is a community translation system that enables a website's readers to translate to the languages they speak. We're beta testing a multilingual blogging service, Der Mundo. You can find Boing Boing at boingboing.dermundo.com where you can view, edit and score translations, and help make Boing Boing accessible to everyone who speaks your language. Der Mundo...
Written by Brian McConnell, a regular guest columnist on GigaOM. The cleantech industry is driving supply-side innovation in energy production. That’s great. Over the next 20 years, we’ll be able to transition to much cleaner energy sources. Of course, we can reduce our energy footprint significantly in the meantime. The problem with conservation is that people [...]
An Almondsbury engin-eering company has been named one of Britain's best employers. Hydrock, founded in 1997, has been ranked fourth in the national Times Best 100 Companies to Work For Survey 2008. The firm, founded by Dr Brian McConnell specialises ...
An Almondsbury engineering company has been named one of Britain's best employers. Hydrock, founded in 1997, has been ranked fourth in the national Times Best 100 Companies to Work For Survey 2008. The firm, founded by Dr Brian McConnell specialises ...
I met Chris Messina once back a few years ago when he was pushing Flock. Now I see him doing this (link below), while mixing in the social media relationship space. This DiSo will be interesting. Link [via Brian McConnell]:...
Brian McConnell's recent post about the history of social networks over at GigaOm was a great summary of where we've come from with a few insights into where we may be going that are worth paying attention to. One projection where I think he's on the right track is related to controlling one's own data. Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have grown at incredible rates due to the power of simple networking...
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Brian McConnell writes: As Facebook enjoys its moment in the sun, we should take a moment to step back and look at the history of computers and social communication. Some historical perspective is in order, both to assess the real value of social networks as businesses, and to anticipate how they are likely to evolve in [...]
Don't tell our teenagers who go "eew" when they see a grown up on Facebook, but Brian McConnell takes us down memory lane to the social networks of the 80s and 90s. He does not mention the Groupware category, more...
At GigaOM, Brian McConnell charts the evolution of social networks from the 80s to 00s: As Facebook enjoys its moment in the sun, we should take a moment to step back and look at the history of computers and social communication. Some historical perspective is in order, both to assess...
In this post I wrote about the bright future for telecomm products and services as they sit in the middle of 5 large industry trends - Globalization, SaaS, Mobility, Collaboration and Telemetry. Well, here's an interesting counter-point from Brian McConnell...
Guest Post by Brian McConnell : I recently retired from telecom, after some 15 years designing phone services and starting phone companies. I've concluded -- after all this time -- that it is not a good industry for entrepreneurs, especially those who don't have access to vast amounts of capital or who don't want to take on institutional financing.
Translation calls for a distributed, Wikipedia-like solution, and a colleague of mine--Brian McConnell--has created one in the form of the Worldwide Lexicon. What's new this week is that Brian has added a translation plugin (open source, like the rest of the software) that can be added easily to any web page allowing helpers to translate the links and other navigational or interactive tools of a site...
Skype makes me so aware of my minimal foreign language skills. So I'm excited about tools that help me compensate. The first I want to mention is the Worldwide Lexicon Project. Brian McConnell's essay, The End Of The Language Barrier,...
O'Reilly author and ETel regular Brian McConnell has just published a thought provoking essay, The End Of The Language Barrier. Brian is the the leader of the Worldwide Lexicon project, which we've highlighted here before. He predicts that the language...
