Archive for October, 2008

Huffduffing digital Brighton

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Community, Features, Lead Story

Jeremy Keith recently launched a new web app called Huffduffer that nicely brings podcasts together into your very own feed.
I think it’s really nifty. The process is similar to booking marking a site with the likes of delicious. The Huffduffer site explains it like this:

Find links to audio files on the Web.
Huffduff the [...]



The (really cool) Plug-in Media Showreel

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Broadcast, Features

I just came across this from Plug-in Media and couldn’t help myself, but not mention it. Short, sweet and fun!
Nicely done!

Plug-in Showreel from Seb Lee-Delisle on Vimeo.
Psst…you can find some other Brighton related videos on the Project Brighton Vimeo Channel.



< head > over for the year…

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

So the < head > conference is over for this year, I suspect much to the relief of Aral!
However, being < head >, it’s not really over as all the talks are available (or will be soon). A big congrats to Aral and Team < head > for pulling off such a big [...]



CV Builder

By Leif Kendall • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

We all know how important an accurate and up-to-date CV is, and we all know how much of a chore that can be.
So let’s all say a big thank-you to Anthony Johnston of Antix Software for developing CV Builder. This natty application breaks CV content into chunks – making the process of building and updating [...]



How many events are going on?

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: Community, Features

Brighton is increasingly becoming popular as a grand digital hub, often being compared to London.  But how hot is our tech community?
One sign is to look at all the regular events going on.  Richard Dallaway has conviently put an image together showing (hopefully all) geek type events going on:

’nuff said!



Tom Nixon at Future of Web Apps on Work Life Balance

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 16th, 2008 • Category: Business, Features

Local Brighton dude, Tom Nixon speaks on work/life balance at FOWA.



< head > on QIK

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Conferences

Aral has been working hard on organising the <head> conference, infact you can see some of the stuff he has been up to on the Head QIK profile page.
Here is one video he took yesterday at The Werks.



Elgg meetup - learn about the Elgg open source social networking app

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Events

Some of the Elgg team are coming to Brighton (today!) for a local Meetup at Caxton Arms. If you’d like to know more about Elgg or social networking in general these are the guys to talk to.
If you can’t make it along do check out their online community.



Into Digital? Located in the South? Deserve to be recognised?

By Rosie Sherry • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Business, Lead Story

The Digital Media Awards South (DiMAS) is looking to recognise all things related to “digital” and people, projects and businesses within the south of England. Organised by Wired Sussex, SCIP and Seeda, the natural focus lends itself to the Brighton Digital Hub that we all have here. It’s also a great opportunity to [...]