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Herb Kim

Herb Kim

Looking forward to year of innovation

AFTER all the doom and gloom of 2010, I think most of us are really looking forward to 2011. While the regional economy won’t be any less challenging in 2011, we can’t stop finding ways to innovate and grow our businesses.Read

Think Digital is a big hit once again

ON WEDNESDAY, May 26, Codeworks helped facilitate a new milestone for North East England.Read

Get set for that eureka moment

ALTHOUGH the technology world is built upon ideas, actually having that eureka moment in the first place can prove the hardest part.Read

Exciting times for music lovers

LAST week we looked at how Apple's App Store has been instrumental in the success of the company's iPhone. Read

COMMENT: Making the most of best Apple apps

IT’S been an excellent year for Apple’s App Store, which turned one-year-old last Saturday.Read

Digital acorns grow well

IN today's digital world you don’t need to be in the USA to succeed. Digital business can make some very serious money, regardless of where it is.Read

Comment: Future of games is online

SOME of most influential figures from the world’s games industry headed to the GameHorizon Conference in Gateshead earlier this week to discuss the trends, threats and opportunities facing them right now.Read

Can Jeeves find the right answers?

MORE than 70% of web searches in the UK are run through Google. Surely there’s nothing a posh valet in a Savile Row suit can do to change that, is there?Read

Fight piracy, or compete to better it?

WHAT’S the best way to deal with a pirate? That isn’t the beginning of a joke, by the way, but a serious question facing a great number of different industries throughout the world right now.Read

Comment: TED has had a great bearing on my life

IN July 2005, my life was about to change, not once, but twice within a week. On July 27 my daughter was born at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.Read

Get ready for return of little TED

AROUND this time last year, Codeworks rolled the dice on the biggest single risk we’d taken in our short life and launched the Thinking Digital conference.Read

Great idea but trust is paramount

IF you’ve ever wanted to learn how to play the flute, do yoga or become a horticultural master, you could be in luck. Read

Comment: Blockbuster session was gloomiest

Having been fortunate enough to represent the North East’s digital sector at the conference, and to meet potential speakers for our very own version of Pop!Tech, Thinking Digital, I’m glad to say that this year was no exception.Read

Comment: Working for nothing is popular

WE'VE had outsourcing and even nearsourcing. Now, powered by the internet, something called crowdsourcing is being used by businesses to develop ideas and products.Read

Tech Notes: Web name free-for-all is forecast

THE naming system you use to navigate the net will be given a complete overhaul next April – but who will be the winners in this, one of the biggest changes in the history of the web?Read

Gates finally close behind 'geeky' Bill

TWO years after his retirement was first announced, Bill Gates stepped down from his full-time job at Microsoft last Friday to concentrate on his charitable work.Read

Tech Notes: Can Apple be boss of the bowl?

DESPITE unveiling a newer, faster version of the iPhone in San Francisco earlier this week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs faces a major challenge if he wants the product to become more than a small fruit in a big bowl.Read

Tech Notes - Coworking, it’s the future

THE internet has enabled millions of people to work from home. But, faced with only a computer screen for company, many are heading back into offices searching for something altogether more human.Read

Tech Notes: How to avoid getting blogged down.

SLING streamers over your server, spray your screen with Champagne and give your laptop a hug. For blogging celebrated its 10th birthday this week.Read

Tech Notes with Herb Kim

A FIERCE argument about the distinctly unsexy issue of “net neutrality” is rumbling on in the US right now – and it could spell the end of the internet as we know it.Read

Author Profile

Since 2002, Herb Kim has been CEO of Codeworks - the North Eastýs centre of digital excellence. Codeworks' mission is to develop the digital economy of the North East to bring of jobs, new companies, wealth creation and inward investment to the region. Previously, Herb has worked as head of marketing for source O2, an incubator of leading edge mobile data applications.

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