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Social Innovation Camp – The Campers Come Home

By Leif Kendall • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Conferences, Features

SiCamp, the conference that aimed to solve just some of society’s multifarious ills, ended last weekend after a frenzied few days’ work.
Enabled by Design was the winner of the £2000 prize. This is a great initiative to provide better aids to disabled people through a combination of modern design and an eBay-style second-hand market. 
Prison Visits, [...]



Singularity calls for sponsors

By Leif Kendall • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Conferences

Singularity, the upcoming web conference, has put out a call for sponsors.
Click here to get behind what promises to be a sea change in conferencing.



Dharmafly Take Brighton to Social Innovation Camp

By Leif Kendall • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Conferences

Dharmafly’s Madhava Bailey and Premasagar Rose are taking their social networking and web skills to the first Social Innovation Camp.
Though their own proposal (Social Compost) was rejected, Premasagar has been asked to help make Stuffshare a reality, and Madhava has been invited as a social media mentor.
Can the web save the world?
Social Innovation Camp (SiCamp) [...]



Discover Hidden Treasure(s)!

By Leif Kendall • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Business, Community

Hidden treasures like buildings of historic interest, museums, art galleries and the like.
 
Now you can let your mobile phone be your tour guide with Simon Willison’s new application, Wikinear.
 
A mash-up of several other applications (OAuth, Fire Eagle, GeoNames and the new Google Static Maps API), Wikinear utilises your phone’s GPS system to bring you the [...]