26 November 2008
We’ve just kicked off a new blog over at blog.scrump.com with a post about Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital.
Recently I have been thinking about how we can apply the techniques of collaborative filtering to people search and recommendation. Indeed we have built Beanbag Learning as a research testbed to allow us to explore possible approaches [...]
24 November 2008
At Jiva we all get the advantage of having 10% time to explore projects a little off the beaten track from our day-to-day work. As I’m not a developer this presented a bit of a challenge for me initially but after a brief rant on my personal blog that struck a chord with a couple [...]
3 November 2008
We had one of those get together and bond sessions here at Planet Jiva the other day. Except, rather than shoot each other with paint in a rainy wood, we sat in a nice, dry office whilst each of us talked about things that we were interested in. With topics ranging from graffiti to musical [...]
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 [...]
7 August 2008
I’ve been at Jiva for a month now and it’s time to pull myself away from the code. For the last 4 weeks Jon’s been mentoring me, which outwardly looks like an excuse to pop down to Baristas (never a bad thing), but it’s really to help me along with my personal development. We both [...]
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 [...]