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I’ve only just started these weekly industry news blogs and already I nearly failed to write one this week. Not my fault, you see my 5-month-old boy thought that it would be funny if he took a chunk out of my cornea. Mind you, he did laugh as I was clutching my contorted face so for him I guess it was funny. Having just regained enough vision to sit at a computer for any length of time I’ve just managed to catch-up on some of the news from the last seven days, so let’s get started: More…

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Hey all. Bit of a low turn out on the EOD today again. I think I’ll borrow Mand’s cricket bat tomorrow and give it to PJ to go remind people.

I’m looking forward to seeing a bunch of your tomorrow!

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We are currently looking at our plans for rolling out and marketing the next generation of broadband products. We’ll be publishing more details on how that’s going to work soon, but for now we want some help.

This request goes out to our customers and to anyone that has an opinion on how the speed of broadband is sold in this country. For the purposes of consistency within this blog I’m going to try and talk about ADSL2+; the underlying technology behind the forthcoming broadband services from BT Wholesale. More…

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A few weeks ago Ashley Highfield, former Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, posted an article called the “Hidden Costs” of Watching TV Online. It makes for an interesting read and is a good starting point for having a debate on this topic. Ashley raised 19 potential ‘actions’ although stressed that these weren’t necessarily his opinion. More…

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It’s my turn to do the End of Day this week, and I can’t think of anything to say that’s witty or interesting so we’ll just get right in to the summaries. More…

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I popped down to the Slug & Lettuce on Wardour St last night for the Chinwag panel discussion on “Real World Usability”. It was a good evening but ultimately the free bar and comfy sofas didn’t quite make up for the lack of direction in the discussion. More…

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The other day I was playing around with Huddle, a web-based project management and collaboration environment. A friend of mine who works at Huddle asked me what I thought. Their definition of what Huddle is is probably better than mine:

“Huddle combines group collaboration, project management and document sharing using social networking principles.”

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So finally after using my kitchen renovations as an excuse for not completing the EOD for over a week, word has got out that I have a more relaxed evening of floor tiling ahead with one of my close friends. As some of you may be aware this kitchen is taking over my life! More…

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Hello everyone,

I’m one of a few people here at PlusNet organising a series of promotional events to raise money for the St. Luke’s Hospice charity. We’re competing against a number of other local companies to see who can raise the most money for this great cause.

So far we’ve raised about £250 in a short space of time by having a “Pay for your lunch” day and a raffle style Grand National event. We’re also looking at doing a number of other promotions including a “Tramathon”, climbing Mount Everest in our very own Gym, a “Play Your Cards Right” game, 5-a-side football tournament and many, many others! I’ll even be holding an internal Killer Pool competition this Thursday

If you have any good ideas of your own of how we can raise some money, then by all means, let us know!

Should you wish to, you can easily donate by going to this secure website:

http://www.justgiving.com/plusnet_stlukes

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Yikes! Just ran out of a long, late meeting to post this EOD. Busy, busy. Got a train to catch in 15 minutes! Looks like everyone else must have been busy too as we only have news from three departments. More…

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