Jon Paul Davies

Blabnote.com - Vocal Social Network

I’ve got 5 invites to the brand new voice powered social network Blabnote to give away. This new application, currently in private beta, promises to give users access to advanced communication tools, ad-hoc creation of contact conference groups and industrial strength feature rich voice mail and messaging. To win an invite, drop me an email and the first 5 to land will get one.

Edit: Too late! All gone! Leave a comment and i’ll get back to you if I get any more invites to distribute.

Thinking Digital: 21-23 May 2008

I’m off to the Thinking Digital conference at The Sage Gateshead this time next week. Billed as an ‘event where outstanding individuals gather to take part in an exclusive conversation about technology, ideas and our future’ it’s a great chance to see some of the best speakers the planet has to offer in action. Highlights on offer include:

Steve Clayton, Microsoft’s Software plus Services Lead and all round top bloke, demonstrating some of the coolest new technologies to come out of Redmond, including what’s expected to be a first UK demo of Live Mesh.

The Fake Steve Jobs (a.k.a. Dan Lyons, Senior Editor at Forbes), author of Internet sensation The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, giving his unique, hilarious take on the world of technology, the people who drive it, and the future of media.

Greg Dyke, Chairman of the British Film being interviewed live on stage by Andy Allan, the former CEO of Carlton Television, about management and leadership challenges, as well as his views on the future of media.

World-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil speaking via stunning Teleportec technology about his groundbreaking work on The Singularity and the point at which computer intelligence will surpass our own, in every form.

Hopefully it should be clear to you that with such a lineup set to appear, I’m more than a little excited to be one of the lucky 400 who gets to attend!

Post Web 2.0 Design

After every combination of rounded corner, gradient background and primary colour has been exhausted by the design cliches of web 2.0, it appears that true, honest-to-goodness design is slowly returning to the web. The advantage and simultaneous problem of the web-twenny design rulebook was that every site looks the same….a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. Anyway here’s a link to the current state of the art in web design. Clean, sharp looking design that carries itself with confidence and individuality.

Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs