15 October 2008
Not for the first time the guys at EduFire have written a thought provoking and timely blog post that I thought I would point to and make a quick comment on.
6 Reasons Why Online Education Will Boom in the Bust is a welcome ray of sunshine amongst the gloom of the global financial meltdown - [...]
24 September 2008
Between the 5th and 7th of December the second Social Innovation Camp will take place in London and hopefully Jiva will be at the event to both contribute and learn from the other attendees.
According to the ‘About’ section of the SI Camp website it is “an experiment in creating social innovations for the digital age” [...]
23 September 2008
The folks over at EduFire wrote an interesting post yesterday that pointed me to the Union Square Ventures blog for an especially enlightening insight into the sort of areas they, as early stage venture capitalists, are interested in getting in to.
Union Square have invested in an impressive portfolio of web companies in recent years and [...]
19 September 2008
4IP is a really interesting new initiative from Channel 4 that is setting out to look at how Channel 4 can fulfill its public service broadcasting requirements in a digital age where television is not necessarily the be all and end all.
It is of particular interest to a start-up like us here at Jiva as [...]
11 September 2008
by Jon Ellis
At Jiva we pride ourselves on producing great web-based solutions — this is only possible because we work effectively as a team and our focus is entirely on the needs of our customers.
As a start-up we have been able to develop our own unique culture. We have learned from our years in large [...]
28 July 2008
As a part of my job I find myself being introduced to all sorts of new ideas and the latest of these is using the Scrum methodology for running projects.
Scrum is an agile methodology that aims to empower the developers and also be flexible enough to realise that specifications change over time and creates a [...]
21 July 2008
Now for me and people of my generation when you start talking about Hobo the first thing we think of is a TV show from the late 70s, early 80s that featured a dog that was kind of a working class Lassie, wandering Canada saving the day.
Hobo means something a bit different in the Jiva [...]
15 July 2008
Clay Shirkys Here Comes Everybody is required reading here at Jiva and even if your humble blogger does have some issues with how well it works as a book I do fully subscribe to the concepts and ideas that Professor Shirky writes about.
So I was very interested to come across a couple of videos where [...]
10 July 2008
So I typed Jiva into the all knowing Google and lo and behold there was a Wikipedia entry so I thought I would have a look.
Apparently Jiva in Hinduism and Jainism is a ‘living being’. Now that makes us ‘Living Being Technology’ which given our focus on the concept of People Search with Beanbag and [...]
9 July 2008
As well as our shiny new website there are a couple of new faces at Jiva this week.
Theo joins us from web hosting company Krystal as a developer and apart from briefly killing the wifi on his second day is settling in and itching to get his hands dirty. He is a graduate of Southampton [...]