Blogs

  1. zenbullets.com

    [Blog] zenbullets.com: Post Rock and Pencils

    The 60 seconds of video above is the first fruit of a little project I’m currently working on with Hessien, developing a visual identity for their forthcoming debut album. The full length/full quality version continues in a similar vein for another four mins, which I’ve spared you for now.

    This pencil/charcoal effect is something I have been trying to master for ages. See abandonedart.org/?p=97 and abandonedart.org/?p=216 for earlier attempts.

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    Posted 9 September 2010, 2:19 pm

  2. Favicon SiteVisibility

    [Blog] SiteVisibility: My Favourite Google Analytics Reports- Podcast Episode #85

    Tying into next week on the Premium Podcast’s analytics week we’ve got the latest braindump on Kelvin’s Favoruite Google Analytics Reports.

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    You can listen to the episode on the player below, subscribe to the podcast feed or listen in on iTunes

    • How many people are viewing your site on mobile device?
    • Top Exits – Weighted Sorted
    • Reverse Goal Path
    • Intelligence Feature

    As always you can get in touch by emailing kelvin.newman@sitevisibility.com, leaving us a comment at http://www.internetmarketingpodcast.org or using the Twitter hashtag #impc or leave us a voicemail question on +44 1273 256 150 You can sign up for a week’s worth of our daily training videos at http://premium.internetmarketingpodcast.org

    Post from Apple Pie & Custard the blog from SiteVisibility a Brighton SEO Company

    My Favourite Google Analytics Reports- Podcast Episode #85

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    3. Inventive Link Building Techniques – Podcast Episode #77
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    Posted 9 September 2010, 1:50 pm

  3. Favicon Adactio

    [Blog] Adactio: OAuthypocrisy and the Passwordpocalypse

    The OAuthcalypse is upon us. Since August 31st, all third-party Twitter services must use OAuth to authenticate. This is a good thing; a very good thing. Before that date, services were allowed to use the password anti-pattern to log you in.

    Twitter has put its foot down and declared that the password anti-pattern will no longer be tolerated. Hurrah!

    What a shame then, that Twitter is being utterly hypocritical. On their Find Friends page, they encourage you to:

    Scan your email address book or contacts to discover which of your friends are already using Twitter.

    They do this using the password anti-pattern. You are asked for your Gmail password even though the Google Contacts API would allow Twitter to connect to Gmail using proper authentication …exactly what Twitter is insisting third-parties use when they want to access Twitter’s data.

    Twitter asks for your Yahoo Mail password even though the Yahoo Contacts API would allow them access to your address book using OAuth.

    Twitter asks for AOL passwords (now there’s an audience that we shouldn’t be teaching to give their passwords away) but even AOL has an API with proper authentication.

    Twitter does connect to LinkedIn correctly. That’s one out of four.

    There are two solutions to this state of affairs. Either Twitter decides to do the right thing and switch over to using APIs and authentication for Gmail, Yahoo and AOL …or else Gmail, Yahoo and AOL follow Twitter’s example and disallow the password anti-pattern for scraping address books.

    Twitter should not be encouraging Gmail users, Yahoo users and AOL users to divulge their passwords but at the same time, Gmail, Yahoo and AOL should be taking steps to ensure that such profligate behaviour is not rewarded.

    Twitter has done the right thing with third-party services wishing to access its data. Now let’s see if the third-party services currently being abused by Twitter will follow this example.

    Update: There are some very encouraging responses from Twitter. Ryan Sarver says:

    all good points and I think there are already plans to fix it

    And Josh Elman concurs:

    yes - great points and something we hope to migrate very soon


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    Posted 9 September 2010, 10:32 am

  4. Raj Anand

    [Blog] Raj Anand: The rise of the new Social Media Smarphones

    Social media and networking has become an international obsession, with Facebook accumulating more than half a billion users and microblogging site Twitter growing from humble beginnings into a powerful tool which can be used to build political movements or get its users in trouble with the authorities. Some analysts predict that social networking sites like these will soon overtake standard search engines like Google as the most popular means by which internet users discover information. People share news stories and links to interesting online content with their friends and people can become overnight stars just because they have become popular in the world of social media.

    Dawn of the Smartphone

    It is possible to draw a line between the growth of social networking and the dawn of the smartphone. Mobiles have become steadily more advanced over the years, but whereas in the past the focus was on ever-improving hardware, these days people are more concerned with the software and connectivity options offered by mobiles. Smartphones are no longer the preserve of the most affluent users, because even pay as you go models can go online and even connect via Wi-Fi networks using dedicated browser software.

    The growth of social media on the mobile platform has been fuelled by the popularisation of applications, which in itself has only come to the attention of mainstream users thanks to the success of the Apple iPhone (and the enormous growth of Android) and its various iterations. Users of Facebook access the site in their hundreds of millions from dedicated apps or via mobile web browsers each and every month and it is regularly the most visited mobile site on the planet according to mobile browser developer Opera.

    Multimedia on Mobiles

    The multimedia features of mobiles are also taken into account by social networking functions, with most phones coming with built in cameras which can shoot video and stills that the user can then upload directly to their social networking profile or to video sharing sites like YouTube. This allows users to instantly transmit the latest information from their life in a visual manner, distributed to a potential audience of billions around the globe. Location-based social networking services like Foursquare, Google Latitude and Facebook places have also only become possible because of the GPS technology which is commonly integrated into even the low to mid range mobiles of the modern era.

    Mobile phone manufacturers now choose to hardwire social media and social networking features into mobile phones, rather than forcing the user to rely on third party apps which must be accessed separately, disrupting the natural flow. The likes of Motorola`s MotoBLUR, HTC`s FriendStream and Sony Ericsson`s MediaScape are all examples of how the disparate threads of different social networking services are being drawn together so users can get all of their notifications and in a single place. It is also significant that the three examples of cross-platform mobile social media services given above are all built on mobiles running the Google Android operating system, which is fast becoming the go-to software for consumers who want a low cost way to stay in touch when they are out and about.

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    Posted 9 September 2010, 9:27 am

  5. Favicon SiteVisibility

    [Blog] SiteVisibility: 26 Biggest Winners from Google Instant

    You’ll by now no doubt heard about Google Instant. Not surprisingly I wanted to see which 26 brands would have results triggered with just one letter.

    Here’s the 26 winners, though I imagine there’s some personalisation.

    Argos
    BBC
    Curries
    Debenhams
    Ebay
    Facebook
    Google Maps
    Hotmail
    ITV
    John Lewis
    KLM
    Lotto
    Msn
    Next
    o2
    Paypal
    QVC
    Rightmove
    Sky
    Tesco
    utube ?!?!
    Virgin
    Wikipedia
    Xbox
    Youtube
    Zara

    Post from Apple Pie & Custard the blog from SiteVisibility a Brighton SEO Company

    26 Biggest Winners from Google Instant

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    2. The Biggest Threat to the UK Search Marketing Industry….
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    Posted 8 September 2010, 7:08 pm

  6. nodestone

    [Blog] nodestone: Google Scribe. Can you uncover secrets?

    I've just had a play with Google Scribe, which is, according to themselves:
    Google Scribe provides text completion service. Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe provides related word or phrase completion suggestions. In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe's suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use.
    Okay, so I was having a play.  So, I made it rank the suggestions by Google Scribe's rank (by hitting the little G) below the suggestions and I started with the word 'I' and just accepted all the top ranked words it gave me.
    And here's what I made:
    I have another question for you is to become an editor of the newspaper and then at the end of their lifespan and regenerative capacity of these cells to their cognate receptors on the cell surface and then they will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the invention. 
    So, interesting and fun, but don't you think the 'regenerative capacity of cells to their cognate receptors' is starting to sound like a piece of somebody's scientific paper?   I wonder.  Creepy. 
    Can I use this thing to discover obscure secrets?

    Posted via email from grasuth.com

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    Posted 8 September 2010, 6:15 pm

  7. Favicon SiteVisibility

    [Blog] SiteVisibility: A Tragic Death in the World of Search

    In all the tweeting and blogging about Google’s new streaming search there’s a very real risk you may have missed out a tragic death in the world of search. When Google announced their new streaming search, where as you type the results begin to appear they killed of one of their oldest friends – I’m feeling lucky button.

    Okay you might still see it when you visit the home page, and it might be there in a hidden way when search suggestions appears, but what use is a button when it’s never gets clicked? I for one am gonna miss ol’lucky, he’s been a friend through the years and we’ll all be sad to see him go. So join me in raising a glass to our fallen friend.

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    A Tragic Death in the World of Search

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    Posted 8 September 2010, 5:23 pm

  8. Favicon Henderson Kite

    [Blog] Henderson Kite: Publicis falling short on its ad deal with Microsoft

    So news is out that Publicis may be having problems meeting its spend commitmment with Microsoft. When the original deal went through last year for an estimated $530 million, it was viewed that together with cash and shares there was also a media spend commitment put in place. Publicis (or its media agencies) would agree to move money across to Microsoft's media busines (predominatly display and search) to sweeten the deal.

    I imagine the media negotiators were suddenly cock of the pack. The only downside is that trading on big commitents works well with TV, press, radio and some elements to online. The issue comes when direct response comes into play. Probably 75% of display and more or less all of search budget is feeding off direct response cash.

    The simplicity of direct response is that it self strategises. What works works and gets more money and what doesn't doesn't and gets cut (this being the reason why Google's could scale beyond any previous model seen - it worked!!).

    This being the case Microsoft had to perform if it was to remain on any media schedule - if it didn't the media agencies would be having some fairly awkward conversations with their clients why Microsoft stays on the plan when it isn't washing its face and as such making a commitment with direct response money a fairly high risk business.

     A tough one and its really beggars belief looking back that any media commitment was openly admitted. 

    Now I don't know the whole picture and it may well be that Publicis would have brought a couple of clients into the deal "We use our money and your money and we both share in the upside", now that would be innovative and honest and transparent.

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    Posted 8 September 2010, 2:11 pm

  9. Favicon Henderson Kite

    [Blog] Henderson Kite: Publicis falling short on its ad deal with Microsoft

    So news is out that Publicis may be having problems meeting its spend commitmment with Microsoft. When the original deal went through last year for an estimated $530 million, it was viewed that together with cash and shares there was also a media spend commitment put in place. Publicis (or its media agencies) would agree to move money across to Microsoft's media busines (predominatly display and search) to sweeten the deal.

    I imagine the media negotiators were suddenly cock of the pack. The only downside is that trading on big commitents works well with TV, press, radio and some elements to online. The issue comes when direct response comes into play. Probably 75% of display and more or less all of search budget is feeding off direct response cash.

    The simplicity of direct response is that it self strategises. What works works and gets more money and what doesn't doesn't and gets cut (this being the reason why Google's could scale beyond any previous model seen - it worked!!).

    This being the case Microsoft had to perform if it was to remain on any media schedule - if it didn't the media agencies would be having some fairly awkward conversations with their clients why Microsoft stays on the plan when it isn't washing its face and as such making a commitment with direct response money a fairly high risk business.

     A tough one and its really beggars belief looking back that any media commitment was openly admitted. 

    Now I don't know the whole picture and it may well be that Publicis would have brought a couple of clients into the deal "We use our money and your money and we both share in the upside", now that would be innovative and honest and transparent.

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    Posted 8 September 2010, 2:11 pm

  10. Favicon SiteVisibility

    [Blog] SiteVisibility: How To Use Podcasts To Build Links

    As you probably know a while back we launched a premium offshoot of our hugely popular internet marketing podcast, over this last week on the premium site we’ve been talking about the technical and creative aspects of producing a podcast. So we continued the theme in a all-access free video this week.

    How To Use Podcasts To Build Links

    Podcasting doesn’t get the love it deserves, if implemented correctly it can be one of the most effective social media tools at building relationships. We show you how and why it works.

    This is just one example of our daily training videos where we explain exactly how to carry out advanced internet marketing tactics yourself, we’ve covered topics like reputation management, keyword research, linkbuilding, improving your PPC quality score, tracking via Google Analytics amongst 100+ topics covered so far.

    You can sign up here and get a weeks worth of content for absolutely zilch, no obligation, no hard sell, just quality content for nothing -  I hope you find it of use, it’s designed especially for people like you!

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    How To Use Podcasts To Build Links

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    Posted 8 September 2010, 11:41 am

  11. AbandonedArt.org

    [Blog] AbandonedArt.org: 93: Cloth Man

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    source code

    Try dragging.

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    Posted 8 September 2010, 10:29 am

  12. CREATIVEBLOKE - BLOG

    [Blog] CREATIVEBLOKE - BLOG: Cinema 4d v12 : Dynamics Test aka - an allegory for wasteful consumption in our chastened time

    Cinema 4d v12 dynamics test from Mike Griggs on Vimeo.

    Used a motor, emitter and connector and no keyframes, much more intuitive to setup than v11.5, animation took 5 mins, mucking about with render settings an age….:sigh:

     

    Posted 8 September 2010, 7:44 am

  13. Jay Caines-Gooby

    [Blog] Jay Caines-Gooby: Avoiding HTTPS mixed content warnings

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    Working on an HTTPS site today I was getting mixed content warnings from Chrome due to a few external resources still coming over HTTP.

    Google analytics already has the HTTP/HTTPS switcher built into it, but jQuery was being pulled in with an explicit http call to:

     <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    

    I could serve the code directly myself, but it seemed neater to use the Google CDN. It was a relatively quick fix thanks to stackoverflow. I used the simplified version:

      <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"
      type="text/javascript"></script>
    

    which uses the // protocol-relative URL to download the external jquery file. Because it’s served over HTTPS, you won’t benefit from using the browser’s cached version, but it is one less file to be served by you.

    Don’t forget your favicon

    So now I was at the point of being certain that every resource on the page was being served over HTTPS, yet I was still getting the dreaded mixed content warning. Then I realised I hadn’t explicitly put a favicon link in the html. A quick check in the logs seemed to confirm this. The implicit favicon.ico request was being made by Chrome, but using HTTP.

    Adding the icon link seemed to do the trick.

      <link href='/images/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon' />
    

    Proxying Google maps

    Once final problem was that as part of the registration process, I was showing a Google Map iframe.

    I didn’t want this page served over HTTP just to avoid the mixed content warning, especially as the map page contains personal details.

    As I’m using nginx to serve the site, and it’s relatively easy to proxy content served from local application servers like mongrel and unicorn, I wondered if we could do something similar with the requests to http://maps.google.com.

    The nginx config is really easy:

    location /maps {
      proxy_pass        http://maps.google.com;
      proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
    }
    

    Just make sure this comes ahead of any location rule that matches /, as it needs more priority.

    And then in my code, I just invoke the iframe without the http://maps.google.com host, when I know I’m running in production, and hence running the proxy

    - host = (RAILS_ENV != "production" ? "http://maps.google.co.uk" : "") 
    
    %iframe#map{ :scrolling => "no", 
                 :marginheight => "0", 
                 :marginwidth => "0", 
                 :src => "#{host}/maps?hl=en&amp;gl=GB&amp;q=#{@address}&amp;mrt=loc&amp;t=m&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=near;&amp;output=embed", 
                 :frameborder => "0", 
                 :height => "250", 
                 :width => "250" }  
    

    and that, currently is doing the job for me.

    Posted 7 September 2010, 11:19 pm

  14. Entrepreneurial Geekiness

    [Blog] Entrepreneurial Geekiness: Selling ProCasts through Flippa.com

    A couple of weeks ago I sold ProCasts.co.uk, the screencasting business I built over the last two years. Some of you know that I moved away from the business back at Christmas and left it idle (a rather silly thing to do), here are some notes on how I sold it and how you could sell your business. This is my first business sale, some valuable lessons were learned.

    I listed the business on flippa.com a month back, flippa specialises in matching buyers and sellers of domain names and small businesses. Since ProCasts was, after 8 months of inactivity, essentially a website that generated leads with a client list – I figured a listing on flippa would find some interested parties. I didn’t sell The Screencasting Handbook, I’m still happily developing the Handbook’s sales.

    The new owners are Tintisha Technologies, a Leicester based video production company who wanted to expand their screencasting brand. Rich of Tintisha discovered the ProCasts sale through flippa by (happy!) accident, made a couple of bids at the end of the auction and came out on top. We completed the handover last week.

    The reason for selling ProCasts was simple – I’d moved away from screencasting back at Christmas as I’d decided to return to my historic trade of artificial intelligence research and data science. I knew that a few of ProCasts’ competitors might be interested in the site and that a listing on flippa with money sent through escrow.com would make for a clean, safe sale.

    I listed the site as an “Established lead generating screencasting site” with a two week auction. Flippa works differently to eBay – it uses an open auction (though private sales are possible) with a rolling end-time (if a bid is placed within 4 hours of the end of the auction the end time is advanced by another 4 hours).

    Take a look at the listing to see the details that I included, I added:

    • Full business and site description
    • Details of past clients and warm leads
    • Bank statements to prove income
    • Verified Google Analytics traffic data
    • A Transfer Agreement listing all assets/processes for the sale

    I made a point of responding to all questions (lots came via the private email channel) and updating the listing with new information. Fortuitously a couple of older leads came back with requests for work during the auction so these ‘very warm leads’ got a mention in the comments too.

    At the end of the day the site sold for $4,002 (£2,500), minus the sale fee (£100) and escrow.com’s fees I took away £2,400. Not bad for a site that was otherwise of no value to me but obviously not an ‘interesting exit’.

    Here are some of the takehome lessons:

    • If you’re selling a business, a pure consultancy (with no consultants) isn’t super interesting to buyers, only to existing market players
    • Building a consultancy in a super-small niche (when I started I had 4 US competitors and 0 in the UK) means few buyers when you decide to exit (in fairness – I didn’t build the business to sell it, I know better for next time)
    • Design your business with an exit in mind – recurring or passive income has real value to a buyer, make sure you can be removed from the business without damaging it
    • A two week auction was fine but four weeks would have made more sense
    • Soliciting private bids from competitors should have been done sooner rather than later
    • Adding a product or recurring income stream to the business would have added a lot of value (I decided to keep The Screencasting Handbook as an experimental platform)
    • BusinessesForSale is an alternative site, I didn’t know about it when I started, their companies tend to have higher value (flippa isn’t really for consultancy businesses, just simple web businesses)

    What next?

    Some of you know that I’ve been working in the field of artificial intelligence research for industry over the last 10 years (as both senior programmer, product designer and pure r&d bod) in my Mor Consulting. This role is evolving and I’m turning into a “Data Scientist” (the new shiny term for A.I. researchers!).

    I’m also building some new IP by way of web services using A.I. technologies, these are designed with an exit in mind (I’m learning!). If you’re curious about using A.I. in industry see my new A.I.Cookbook.

    I’m also continuing to develop The Screencasting Handbook, it is a useful experimental platform and I still very much enjoy teaching the art of screencasting.

    If you have any questions, ask away.


    Ian applies Artificial Intelligence as a Data Scientist for companies (Mor Consulting), programs Python, writes The Screencasting Handbook and is also a sea-side dweller and consumer of fine coffees.

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    Posted 7 September 2010, 10:11 pm

  15. Favicon NixonMcInnes

    [Blog] NixonMcInnes: What is it you’d like from this site?

    There’s an old saying that it’s always the cobblers children who go barefoot – which kind of rings a bit true for us here at NM Towers whenever we think about this website. It’s been around a while (and as I remember it was only an ‘interim’ one anyway) and it’s not really telling the whole story of who we are and what we do. But… we’re always so busy that changing it seems like a daunting task, so we just keep on blogging and squeezing new content in wherever it vaguely fits and avoid looking at it too closely.

    It seems like the time might be coming though where it really is bursting at the seams so I’ve been thinking about lightweight ways that we might be able to kick off a bit of a redesign*. Which is where you come in.

    Presumably you’re here for a reason – maybe you’re interested in working with us, maybe you already do work with us, or maybe you’ve followed that old link about Web 2.0 footers that doggedly keeps on sending us traffic?

    Whatever the reason, I’m kind of eyeing you up like a lion does a gazelle – as handy fodder (although in my case it’s for a bit of user research). I want to know what it is you want from this site – what you’re looking for and why. So, if it’s not too much trouble please could you mosey over to this Google spreadsheet and fill in your user story?

    We’re doing a similar exercise here, only on big bits of paper in the kitchen, but rather than guess who you are and what you want it seems only polite to ask you instead.

    Thanks everso :)

    * Terms & conditions apply…. we reserve the right to ignore what you want, to take ages to make any changes – and even to decide not to do anything at all.

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    Posted 7 September 2010, 6:59 pm

Flickr

These photos are the most recent added to the BNM Flickr Photo pool.

  1. [Flickr] brighton pride 2010-21

    brighton pride 2010-21

    Posted by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk, on 7 Aug 2010, 10:42 pm

  2. [Flickr] brighton pride 2010-5

    brighton pride 2010-5

    Posted by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk, on 7 Aug 2010, 10:42 pm

  3. [Flickr] brighton pride 2010-8

    brighton pride 2010-8

    Posted by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk, on 7 Aug 2010, 10:42 pm

  4. [Flickr] brighton pride 2010-12

    brighton pride 2010-12

    Posted by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk, on 7 Aug 2010, 10:42 pm

  5. [Flickr] me on FaceTime in a webcam on FaceTime, argh loop!

    me on FaceTime in a webcam on FaceTime, argh loop!

    Posted by Josh Russell, on 5 Aug 2010, 2:55 pm

  6. [Flickr] thames soutbank

    thames soutbank

    Posted by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk, on 29 Jul 2010, 10:59 pm

  7. [Flickr] Opiamas Trangelo 2

    Opiamas Trangelo 2

    Posted by zenbullets, on 28 Jul 2010, 11:11 am

  8. [Flickr] Opiamas Trangelo 5

    Opiamas Trangelo 5

    Posted by zenbullets, on 28 Jul 2010, 11:09 am

  9. [Flickr] matador

    matador

    Posted by lucidhouse, on 26 Jul 2010, 9:45 am

  10. [Flickr] Rape of aurora

    Rape of aurora

    Posted by lucidhouse, on 26 Jul 2010, 9:45 am

Sussex Blue with New Lens

[Flickr] Sussex Blue with New Lens

New Walk, New Lens (sweet) and a Sussex Blue all in one walk

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Last.fm artist chart

This is a chart of the most listened to artists in the BNM last.fm group. Chart for the week ending Sun, 5 Sep 2010.

  1. Radiohead
  2. Beck
  3. Florence + the Machine
  4. Muse
  5. Foo Fighters
  6. Bloc Party
  7. Broken Social Scene
  8. Fleet Foxes
  9. Björk
  10. José González

Chart updated every Sunday.

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Events

Events are taken from the BNM Upcoming Group. There are currently 11 events.

You can download, or subscribe to this schedule.

  1. [Event] Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp at Skills Matter Limited

    Monday, September 13th 2010. 9:00am—5:00pm

    Skills Matter Limited,
    116-120 Goswell Road,
    London,
    EC1V 7DP

    In Frank Cohen's three day Test Automation Bootcamp, you will learn how to use powerful open source test automation tools to test for scalability, performance and reliability, including Selenium, PushToTest TestMaker and soapUI. You will learn about the User Goal Oriented Test (UGOT) methodology to deliver actionable knowledge. On completion of this Test Automation Bootcamp, you will be able to identify and solve performance bottlenecks in RIA and SOA applications.

    Added by SkillsMatter, on Tuesday June 29th, 2010

  2. [Event] Gojko Adzic's Hands-on Agile Acceptance Testing &amp; Specification by Example with FitNesse Workshop at Skills Matter Limited

    Monday, October 11th 2010. 9:00am—5:00pm

    Skills Matter Limited,
    116-120 Goswell Road,
    London,
    EC1V 7DP

    Gojko Adzic's 3-day hands-on Agile Acceptance Testing & Specification by Example with Fitnesse Workshop teaches the principles, practices and techniques of agile acceptance testing and specification by example. It also focuses on the key agile development practices that will help you to deliver software that is fit for purpose and will enable you to focus development effort on things that really matter. In this workshop, you will learn how to build a shared understanding of the domain using realistic examples (business, qa, developers) and flush out inconsistencies and functionality gaps before the development starts during the example-writing workshop (business, qa, developers). You will also learn how to effectively influence the development process and build quality in from the start in the example-writing workshop (qa) and how to ensure that the specifications are understood correctly and implemented completely using acceptance tests (business, qa, developers). Finally, you will learn how to focus the development effort and ensure that the result is fit for its purpose using acceptance tests (developers), how to apply Test-Driven Development practices to guide programming (developers) and how to facilitate future change of code with acceptance tests, using FIT/FitNesse for maintaining acceptance tests

    Added by SkillsMatter, on Tuesday June 29th, 2010

  3. [Event] UX brighton 2010 at Sallis Benney Theatre

    Monday, September 13th 2010. 9:00am

    Sallis Benney Theatre,
    Grand Parade,
    Brighton,
    BN2 0JY


    Full details: http://2010.uxbrighton.org.uk/

    Added by danny.hope, on Thursday July 1st, 2010

  4. [Event] Open Plaques Open Day at The Centre for Creative Collaboration

    Saturday, September 25th 2010. 12:00am

    The Centre for Creative Collaboration,
    16 Acton Street,
    London,
    WC1X 9NG

    Open Plaques http://openplaques.org/ is an open source project that is collecting and collating information about commemorative plaques around the world. The resulting geographical data is available licence-free for projects to use.

    We’ll be holding our Open Plaques Open Day event on Saturday 25th September 2010 in the Centre for Creative Collaboration (venue hashtag: #c4cc). If you’re interested in joining us, save the date! Located centrally just 5 minutes walk from Kings Cross station.

    Added by jnicho02, on Sunday August 1st, 2010

  5. [Event] Full Frontal JavaScript Conference at Duke of York's Picturehouse

    Friday, November 12th 2010. 9:00am—6:30pm

    Duke of York's Picturehouse,
    Preston Circus,
    Brighton,
    BN1 4NA

    JavaScript conference organized by Remy Sharp with excellent speaker line-up.

    Added by Martin Kliehm, on Wednesday August 4th, 2010

  6. [Event] Flash on the Beach at The Brighton Dome

    Monday, September 27th 2010. 12:00am

    The Brighton Dome,
    Church Street,
    Brighton & Hove,
    BN1 1EE

    If you are a designer, developer, coder, student, manager, game developer, artist, animator or a newbie, then this conference is for you! Don't miss this opportunity to see nearly 60 of the best minds in the industry, delivering 3 full days of awe-inspiring sessions, plus one day workshops that will give you in-depth training from the worlds best speakers!

    Again we have another phenomenal line up of speakers. We also have the perfect place for them! We love our Brighton venue! The Dome has so much history, charm and character, we would be mad to use anywhere else, and are already looking forward again to the most exciting Flash conference for years!

    Added by Martin Kliehm, on Tuesday August 10th, 2010

  7. [Event] Brighton Beyond Boundaries bike ride at Fishersgate train station

    Sunday, September 26th 2010. 9:00am—6:00pm

    Fishersgate train station,
    Gardner Road,
    Portslade,
    BN4 1LJ

    NB: Date, time and start location to be confirmed

    An exhilarating 24-mile, mostly off-road mountain bike ride around the official border of Brighton & Hove City. Starting at Fishersgate train station, the route goes through the stunning Downs countryside, past Devil's Dyke, Pyecombe, Stanmer, University of Sussex and Woodingdean, before finishing in Saltdean. It is open to experienced and inexperienced riders alike, although some... practice is encouraged beforehand. There will be opportunities to leave the ride before the finish, via roads back into the city.

    Route map: http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/os_routes/show/18412

    Added by nsayers, on Wednesday August 18th, 2010

  8. [Event] Kidical Mass Brighton bike ride at The Level

    Sunday, September 19th 2010. 2:00pm—4:30pm

    The Level,
    Union Road,
    Brighton & Hove,
    BN2 3FX

    Inspired by Kidical Mass rides in America, and Critical Mass, this is an all-ages, safety-in-numbers bike ride through the heart of the city, promoting car-free transport of children and getting kids on bikes.

    We'll meet and finish at a play park, starting at The Level playground and perhaps finishing at the West Pier paddling pool.

    The event is open to all, especially families and friends with children on bike seats, trailers and tag-alongs, as well as accompanied kids on their own bikes.

    The ride could become a monthly event. For future events we will consider taking out event insurance and getting a community police cycling escort.

    See also: http://www.kidicalmass.org/

    Added by nsayers, on Wednesday August 18th, 2010

  9. [Event] SANE Meeting at The Florist pub

    Thursday, September 9th 2010. 8:00pm

    The Florist pub,
    22-23 Upper North Street,
    Brighton,
    BN1 3FG

    SANE meetings are an opportunity for techies to share discuss.
    Target audience: people with an interest in system administration & networking.
    The meetings are casual & open to all.

    Kicks off at 8pm @ The Flortist pub

    Policy: No LARTs or BOFH attitude

    Added by Sevan, on Thursday August 19th, 2010

  10. [Event] Scala LiftOff London 2010 at Skills Matter Limited

    Thursday, October 7th 2010. 9:30am—7:00pm

    Skills Matter Limited,
    116-120 Goswell Road,
    London,
    EC1V 7DP

    The Scala LiftOff comes to Skills Matter! We are thrilled to partner with David Pollak @dpp, Kaliya Hamlin @identitywoman, Jennifer Holmes @dangerangel and the London Scala Community for a 2 DAY Scala LiftOff! This 2 day Unconference will enable you to delve deep into Scala and Lift, as well as present projects in Speed Geeking sessions. Stay tuned for information, on this page, or follow updates on twitter @skillsmatter #scalalol.

    It’s a friendly community event for everyone - from those just “checking it out” to recognised experts who have been developing it for years. This diversity means you can learn everything you need to know about any aspect of the Scala language or the Lift Web Framework.

    There is no pre-set agenda for the conference, attendees go through a facilitated process to create the agenda live at the event. We encourage those with applied knowledge to prepare sessions so they can share some of what they know. Those new to the language can pose questions about what they want to learn about. More information about the event can be found here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-lift-off-london-2010/wd-1049

    Added by SkillsMatter, on Friday July 30th, 2010

  11. [Event] [Async]: JavaScript Show n' Tell at The Skiff

    Thursday, September 9th 2010. 7:15pm

    The Skiff,
    6 Gloucester Street,
    Brighton,
    BN1 4EW



    Full info: http://asyncjs.com/showntell2/

    Thurs, 9th September 2010 (arrival from 7.15pm, for a 7.45pm start).
    @The Skiff, 6 Gloucester Street, Brighton, BN1 4EW. (map)


    Please add yourself to the event, so that we have an idea of numbers.




    Have you got a little something to share? Either something cool that you've seen, or a pet project of your own? Come and tell us all about it, in 4 minutes (+ 3 mins for questions).

    Perhaps we'll have a look at some of the highlights from the 1KB JavaScript competition.

    Let us know in the blog post comments if there's something you'd like to show, or if you have any questions.

    Added by premasagar, on Tuesday August 31st, 2010