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Trampoline is on Web Mission 2008!

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Trampoline is participating in Web Mission 2008, a showcase of UK technology companies organised by UK Trade and Investment among others. Web Mission 2008 will see 20 UK Web 2.0 companies travel to San Francisco to meet key Silicon Valley movers and shakers. Participating companies were selected on their ability to do meaningful business in the US, their business viability and the strength of their management team.

Web Mission 2008 runs from 19th-25th April, a week in which Trampoline will be out in force in San Francisco. That week we’re also exhibiting at Web 2.0 Expo, more on which to follow!

Trampoline begins 2008 with two prestigious award nominations

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Trampoline has received two award nominations recognising its leadership in enterprise social computing.

First, Trampoline has been nominated for the Partnering for Innovation Award at the UK Technology Innovation and Growth Awards 2008. The nomination recognises the strong partnership between Oracle and Trampoline which has brought together the world’s largest enterprise software company with Trampoline’s enterprise social computing techniques.

Secondly, Trampoline has been nominated for Emerging Business Partner of the Year at the Oracle UK Partner Awards. We brought home the gong for Innovation at the ceremony last year so we’re hoping for a second year of success.

Enterprise social networks gaining ground

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Ian Williams on how "companies look to better collaboration."

Read the piece.

Stroke of genius as business cards turn into invaluable multimedia tool

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Richard Tyler discusses the potential of enterprise social networking.

Read the article.

Almost 90% of firms ready for enterprise social networking

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Computer Weekly reports on the results of Trampoline's enterprise 2.0 survey.

Read the article in Computer Weekly.

Bouncing back to social intelligence

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Phil Muncaster ponders Trampoline's "ongoing quest to provide organisations with the tools to extract and use the latent knowledge of their workforce."

Read the Information World Review blog.

The enterprise social network, auto-generated and visually mapped

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

On SONAR Dashboard: "I haven’t seen a product like it so far and the visualization tools are pretty amazing."

Read about SONAR Dashboard on TechCrunch.com

Trampoline bounces into enterprise social computing

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Puns abound as SONAR Dashboard bounces from Trampoline into the world.

Read about SONAR Dashboard on ZDNet.

Social networks bound into enterprises on Trampoline Systems’ SONAR Dashboard

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Michael LoPresti explores SONAR Dashboard.

Read the article in Information Today

Unlocking information with social intelligence

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Phil Muncaster puts Trampoline in context.

Read "Unlocking information with social intelligence" on IT Week

Trampoline offers relationship mapping tool

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Tom Jowitt investigates the network analysis theory behind SONAR Flightdeck

Read "Trampoline offers relationship mapping tool" on Techworld

Managers jump up and down for social networking

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

SONAR Flightdeck from a CRM perspective

Read "Managers jump up and down for social networking" on CRM Magazine

Trampoline’s enterprise social networking tools take flight

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Phil Muncaster on SONAR Flightdeck

Read "Trampoline’s enterprise social networking tools take flight" on IT Week

Trampoline says social networking can bounce productivity

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Nick Booth on the ethnographic research behind SONAR Flightdeck

Read "Trampoline says social networking can bounce productivity" on Computer Weekly

Master your inbox

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Peter Biddle, VP Development at Trampoline, examines the state of email at work today.

Read "Master your inbox" on Accountancy Age

Are we running before we can walk?

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Adrian Bridgwater asks how social networking tools can help enterprises better manage their data

Read "Are we running before we can walk?" on ZDNet.co.uk

Debt versus equity

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Nick Britton charts the development of Trampoline and discusses the options for financing growing companies.

Read "Debt versus equity" on Business XL

Well connected

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Trampoline’s SONAR and Metascope products feature in Mary Branscombe’s insightful round-up of enterprise social computing.

Read "Well connected" on Server Management

Small business rush to sell up

Trampoline Systems — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Charles Armstrong comments on the effects of the changes to UK capital gains tax on entrepreneurs.

Read "Small business rush to sell up" on Sunday Times

Social Networking: Lessons from a village community

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Mary Branscombe explores the ethnographic research that underpins SONAR.

Read "Social Networking: Lessons from a village community" on Financial Times

Data mining unearths hidden talent

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Phil Muncaster boldly predicts “the imminent arrival of a massive new industry associated with enterprise social networking” and assesses Trampoline’s place in it.

Read "Data mining unearths hidden talent" on IT Week

Smarter tools for picking brains

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Phil Muncaster quizzes Charles Armstrong about bringing Web 2.0 to the enterprise.

Read "Smarter tools for picking brains" on IT Week

The Finders

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Andrew Conry-Murray examines what SONAR can do for your business.

Read "The Finders" on Information Week

Becoming an entrepreneur does not mean getting out of managing

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Roger Trapp discusses the motivations for joining an entrepreneurial company and takes a look at Trampoline’s products

Read "Becoming an entrepreneur does not mean getting out of managing" on The Independent

Microsoft star jumps at Trampoline job

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Richard Tyler investigates Peter Biddle’s arrival at Trampoline

Read "Microsoft star jumps at Trampoline job" on The Telegraph

Peter Biddle: Enterprise social networking ready for lift-off

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Larry Dignan’s influential blog on Peter Biddle, SONAR and social networking.

Read "Peter Biddle: Enterprise social networking ready for lift-off" on Between the Lines on ZDNet.com

EuroFroth

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Forbes’ Erika Brown wraps-up Innovate! Europe 2007

Read "EuroFroth" on Forbes

Trampoline’s Charles Armstrong

Trampoline Systems — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:00:00 +0100

An interview with Charles for SmallBizPod’s entrepreneur profile.

Read "Trampoline’s Charles Armstrong" on SmallBizPod

Oracle offers to hold hand of tech start ups

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:00:00 +0100

IT Week on Oracle’s Emerging Business Program.

Read "Oracle offers to hold hand of tech start ups" on IT Week

Business Collaboration Tools Can ‘Unlock’ Information from E-mail and Documents

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Social Computing Magazine has profiled Trampoline and SONAR. The article gives a great introduction to SONAR and the principles behind it.

For those unfamiliar with the publication itself it’s well worth a look as a specialist source of news and analysis in what’s going on in the Enterprise 2.0 universe.

Read "Business Collaboration Tools Can ‘Unlock’ Information from E-mail and Documents" on Social Computing Magazine

Enterprise 2.0 RAVE Session 2 After Thoughts: Moving Organizations

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Trampoline’s technology is one of nine ways “collaborative technologies have been nudging enterprises for around 4 decades”.

Read "Enterprise 2.0 RAVE Session 2 After Thoughts: Moving Organizations" on 21st Century Organization

Show Notes: E-tech, Uganda, and Scilly Isles

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Interview with Charles Armstrong from ETech 2007.

Read "Show Notes: E-tech, Uganda, and Scilly Isles" on BBC Radio 5 Live: Pods and Blogs

Trampoline: Harnessing Social Behavior in the Enterprise

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100

An in-depth look at the technology behind SONAR.

Read "Trampoline: Harnessing Social Behavior in the Enterprise" on Read/WriteWeb

Expertise Location

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Sramana Mitra digs in to Trampoline and SONAR. In three parts.

Read "Expertise Location" on Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Trampoline Systems: Responding to the dysfunctional nature of corporate systems

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Jenny Ambrozek puts Trampoline in context.

Read "Trampoline Systems: Responding to the dysfunctional nature of corporate systems" on 21st Century Organization

Enterprise 2.0 Funding

Trampoline Systems — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Thomas Otter on Trampoline and the far-reaching possiblities of enterprise 2.0.

Read "Enterprise 2.0 Funding" on Vendorprisey

E 2.0 Breakthrough in Europe: Trampoline Systems Raises $5.8 Million

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

A neat summary of Trampoline.

Read "E 2.0 Breakthrough in Europe: Trampoline Systems Raises $5.8 Million" on Enterprise Web 2.0

Trampoline Systems receives £3 million funding from Tudor

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Sam Sethi on financing, SONAR and Metascope.

Read "Trampoline Systems receives £3 million funding from Tudor" on Vecosys

How Software Developers are Turning Data into Knowledge

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100

“A glimpse into the future of business information and knowledge creation”.

Read "How Software Developers are Turning Data into Knowledge" on B Eye Business Intelligence Network

Discover undercurrents with Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

A great explanation of what SONAR can do.

Read "Discover undercurrents with Trampoline Systems" on Information World Review

Trampoline Systems: Social Lessons from Enron and St. Agnes

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Jerry Bowles explains Charles Armstrong’s St. Agnes research.

Read "Trampoline Systems: Social Lessons from Enron and St. Agnes" on Enterprise Web 2.0

The Knowledge: Charles Armstrong

Trampoline Systems — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0100

An in-depth analysis of the origins of Trampoline. Subscription only.

Read "The Knowledge: Charles Armstrong" on Inside Knowledge

KM tool highlights Enron emails

Trampoline Systems — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Graeme Burton on the Enron Explorer.

Read "KM tool highlights Enron emails" on Inside Knowledge

Rifling Through Enron’s Email

Trampoline Systems — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Red Herring on the Enron Explorer. Subscription only.

Read "Rifling Through Enron’s Email" on Red Herring

Enron Postscript: The Emails

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:00:00 +0100

The Wall Street Journal unearths some gems in the Enron Explorer.

Read "Enron Postscript: The Emails" on Wall Street Journal

OBSERVER: Enron sins, seen through the inbox

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:00:00 +0100

The FT investiages the Enron Explorer. Subscription only.

Read "OBSERVER: Enron sins, seen through the inbox" on Financial Times

Recovering lost group communications skills

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:00:00 +0100

Overview of the research behind Trampoline.

Read "Recovering lost group communications skills" on The Bumble Bee

Island Wisdom, Coded in Java

Trampoline Systems — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Quinn Norton delves into Charles Armstrong’s reseach and REEEP discuss their use of Collaboration Engine.

Read "Island Wisdom, Coded in Java" on Wired

Global research from Trampoline Systems reveals 88 per cent of businesses ready to deploy ...

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

UK businesses lead the US in embracing enterprise 2.0 technologies

Boston and London, UK, 24 June 2008 - Trampoline Systems, social intelligence for business, today revealed the results of global research offering insights into the future of enterprise social networking. The research, carried out in the US and the UK, revealed that 88 per cent of businesses are eager to start using social networking although many are looking for more business functionality than in consumer social networks. UK businesses are eager to deploy social networking in the enterprise with 94 per cent of those surveyed believing social networking would be beneficial to use at work compared to 82 per cent of US organisations.

Trampoline Systems surveyed industry executives in the US and the UK for their views on how social networking could be useful for businesses in the future. 84 per cent reported that social networking would help with sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues across the organisation and 68 per cent would like help with finding relevant information. Those surveyed are also eager to open up connections within the business with 69 per cent citing they want to be able to interact with colleagues that they don't already know personally.

But businesses are still holding back from fully embracing these new technologies. The top concern of businesses in the UK and the US is that social networks are too separate from other IT systems,, requiring employees to enter information about themselves into the social network and distracting them from their work. This is despite the fact Trampoline's enterprise social networking tools automatically update a user's profile using data from their everyday work including email. 75 per cent of large organisations in the US and 66 per cent of UK businesses believe that a social network which integrates internally with a company's email system to automatically update a user's profile would be an extremely useful communications tool.

Charles Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Trampoline Systems, says: "This survey confirms that enterprise social networking is firmly established in corporate thinking on both sides of the Atlantic. Interestingly, it also verifies that executives are increasingly concerned about the drawbacks with conventional systems that rely on manual profile updates. In the current economic climate, businesses are under more pressure than ever to improve the way they work and fully harness the talent and experience in their workforce. Intelligent social networks that automatically stay up to date with new expertise and contacts offer a simple and powerful route to achieving this."

Overall, Trampoline's research highlights that businesses in the US and the UK are recognising the strategic and business value of enterprise 2.0 technologies. This is backed up by Forrester Research which reported in April 2008 that the enterprise 2.0 industry will be worth $4.3 billion by 2013.

Trampoline undertook the research at this year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston and Web 2.0 Strategies event in London and surveyed 111 delegates.

About Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems provides social intelligence for business. Trampoline's SONAR Suite is 360° enterprise social computing for employees and managers. Metascope provides advanced analysis and visualisation for ONA/SNA professionals. Trampoline's clients include the Raytheon Company, a top 5 global management consultancy and the UK Foreign Office. Accolades include the Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 and Oracle's EMEA Innovation Award 2007. Trampoline raised $6m in Series A investment from the Tudor Group in March 2007 and was named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner in 2008. For more information please visit www.trampolinesystems.com.

For media enquiries please contact:

Jaime Carron and Becca Daniel, Skywrite Communications

trampoline@skywritecomms.com

+44 20 7608 4650

Trampoline Systems launches world's first intelligent social network for enterprises

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

SONAR Dashboard built to satisfy demand for a "Facebook for business"

Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco and London, UK, 22nd April 2008 - Trampoline Systems, social intelligence for business, today announces SONAR Dashboard, the world's first intelligent social network for enterprises. SONAR Dashboard is Trampoline's response to market demand for a "Facebook for the enterprise". It empowers employees of large enterprises to connect and collaborate and strengthens informal employee networks across departments and geographies.

SONAR Dashboard is an intelligent social network designed to increase cohesion, collaboration and innovation in large organisations. Interactive network visualisations and expertise search enable users to find and connect with the people they need at work and see the social networks and information flows operating across the enterprise ecosystem. It provides employees with individual profiles, a news feed of network activity and a contacts list. SONAR Dashboard is automatically updated through integration with employees' everyday work such as email, via Trampoline's SONAR Server. SONAR Server analyses the social networks, information flows and expertise hidden within corporate information.

Charles Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Trampoline Systems, says, "Many organisations are looking for a "Facebook for business". SONAR Dashboard is the answer. Trampoline has built SONAR Dashboard from the ground up to meet the needs of large enterprises. Unlike other social networking products, SONAR Dashboard is automatically updated, providing an up-to-date network as a by-product of employees' everyday work."

SONAR Dashboard is an addition to SONAR Suite, Trampoline's 360° enterprise social computing platform. SONAR Flightdeck provides organisational diagnostics for managers. SONAR Flightdeck and Dashboard are powered by SONAR Server, which analyses the relationships and expertise hidden in corporate data using proprietary social network analysis and natural language processing technology. SONAR Suite provides enterprise-class security, privacy and integration.

Trampoline is exhibiting on the Oracle booth, booth 629, at Web 2.0 Expo , Moscone West, San Francisco, from 22-25th April. Charles Armstrong will be discussing Facebook and the Enterprise at the booth at 1:20pm on Wednesday 23rd April. A complimentary white paper, entitled Enterprise Social Computing: Why "Facebook for the Enterprise" is not Facebook, is available from Trampoline's website, www.trampolinesystems.com .

About Trampoline Systems
Trampoline Systems provides social intelligence for business. Trampoline's SONAR Suite is 360° enterprise social computing for employees and managers. Metascope provides advanced analysis and visualisation for ONA/SNA professionals. Trampoline's clients include the Raytheon Company, a top 5 global management consultancy and the UK Foreign Office. Accolades include the Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 and Oracle's EMEA Innovation Award 2007. Trampoline raised $6m in Series A investment from the Tudor Group in March 2007 and was named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner in 2008. For more information please visit www.trampolinesystems.com .

For media enquiries please contact:
Elena Dunn and Becca Daniel, Skywrite Communications
trampoline@skywritecomms.com
+44 20 7608 4650

Trampoline Systems selected for Red Herring 100 Europe 2008

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Award Recognises the 100 “Most Promising” Companies Driving the Future of Technology

Malta and London, UK, April 15, 2008 – Red Herring today announced that Trampoline Systems is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

“This year’s impressive list of winners demonstrates Europe’s emergence as a major player in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology companies and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

“Everybody at Trampoline is delighted to receive this accolade” said Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems. “Red Herring is famous for keeping its finger right on the pulse of the global technology industry, so for them to identify us as one of Europe’s top vendors is an honour. I think this award is also a testament to the quality of technology innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe today.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated more than hundreds of private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

To honour the CEOs of Red Herring 100 Europe companies, Red Herring has invited each CEO to present his or her company at its Red Herring Europe 2008 event. Scheduled for April 14-16, at the Westin Dragonara Resort, this intimate, three-day event is themed “Ahead of the Curve” and will explore how European firms are leading the charge in many technology sectors, gaining the competitive advantage, and driving entrepreneurial success in ways that create business opportunities for challengers and incumbents alike. Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems, will speak at 12:15pm on Tuesday April 15th.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

Trampoline Systems named "Cool Vendor" by leading analyst firm

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing

London, 10th April, 2008 – Trampoline Systems is one of five vendors featured in the April 2008 “Cool Vendors in Collaboration and Social Software, 2008” report by Gartner, Inc. and authored by Nikos Drakos, et al.

The report profiles innovative technology companies providing collaboration tools and social software. It focuses on vendors with “innovative approaches to collaboration support” and notes that “although it is too soon to say which will be rewarded with long-term market success, we can expect to see several of these approaches becoming part of successful collaboration support environments”.

“Trampoline is thrilled to be included in this report,” says Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems. “Gartner was ahead of the curve in realising that social software was going to be transformative in the enterprise. Now as we see enterprise social computing emerge as a mainstream technology sector, businesses of all kinds are looking to Gartner to provide insight on the key issues and the marketplace players. Trampoline is delighted to be highlighted in this evaluation.”

SONAR Suite is Trampoline’s enterprise social computing platform for employees and managers. SONAR Dashboard provides social computing for employees to locate experts, connect and collaborate. SONAR Flightdeck and Dashboard are powered by SONAR Server, which identifies the social networks, information flows and topics within electronic information. SONAR Suite provides enterprise-class security, privacy and integration. Metascope is Trampoline’s specialist software for organisational network analysis of large networks.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

For media enquiries please contact:

Elena Dunn, Skywrite Communications
trampoline@skywritecomms.com
+44 20 7608 4650

Trampoline Systems launches Metascope for organisational network analysis of large networks

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Metascope analyses and visualises email or survey data to expand opportunities for ONA/SNA consultants

London, UK, 2nd April 2008 – Trampoline Systems, the enterprise social computing software developer, today announces Metascope, a software tool for organisational network analysis (ONA) and social network analysis (SNA) of large networks. Metascope is being used professionally by world-leading management consultants. It analyses and visualises email as well as survey data, extending the scope for comprehensive exploration of networks of tens of thousands of people, and provides intuitive, attractive visualisations for client presentations.

Metascope quickly gives organisational network analysis professionals detailed insight into the largest of networks. In comparison to other tools on the market, it enables practitioners to produce higher quality analysis, reports and presentations for more successful projects. Metascope is very easy to use from data input to final reporting. It offers advanced analytics and the ability to both manipulate and visualise data within the same interface.

Metascope enables ONA professionals to investigate communication networks in action in addition to the reported organisation found in surveys. Email networks are as easy to explore as those represented in surveys. It is compatible with multiple formats of survey data and performs analysis of survey data as a stand-alone desktop application. Email data is ingested through Trampoline’s SONAR Server, which extracts the social networks contained within email datasets.

Charles Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Trampoline Systems, says, “Until now, ONA practitioners have not had the software they need to tackle large projects which require a scalable toolset and high quality visualisation. They need to explore networks in the largest organisations and use real communication flows as well as survey data. Metascope provides this. Trampoline is proud to meet the evolving needs of the ONA community.”

A free, demonstration version of Metascope is available to download from Trampoline’s website. It uses an email corpus made available by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during its investigation into the downfall of Enron.

For media enquiries please contact:

Rebecca Kemp
Rebecca DOT kemp AT trampolinesystems DOT com
+44 20 7253 6959

Trampoline Systems launches world's first organisational intelligence and diagnostics tool

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

London, UK, 31^st March - Trampoline Systems, the enterprise social computing pioneer, today announces SONAR Flightdeck, the world's first organisational intelligence and diagnostics tool for managers. SONAR Flightdeck provides strategic intelligence about the informal networks that power organisations so managers can make better, more informed decisions, faster. It brings groundbreaking network analysis techniques to business managers to expose the social networks and information flows contained within everyday electronic communications.

Businesses are increasingly aware that informal, peer to peer networks are the real powerhouse of their organisations. Until now management teams have been unable to understand these social networks because the only information available about them has been anecdotal or the result of specialised consultancy projects. SONAR Flightdeck brings the academic techniques of organisational network analysis to managers to increase their understanding of the businesses they run and improve decision-making.

SONAR Flightdeck automatically displays the crucial social factors at play within organisations including key opinion formers, poorly-integrated business units, emerging communities of interest, single points of failure and third-party relationships. This intelligence is vital to large, distributed organisations needing to improve cohesiveness, collaboration and innovation; mergers and acquisitions teams performing high-risk, low-data integrations; and change management professionals designing, implementing and monitoring change programmes.

Charles Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Trampoline Systems, says, "SONAR Flightdeck extends the scope of Enterprise Social Computing by bringing the specialised techniques of organisational network analysis to business users. It derives vital intelligence from the millions of fragments of electronic information flowing around an organisation and presents it in interactive visualisations. SONAR Flightdeck reveals the strategic insight that has long been locked inside everyday communications."

SONAR Flightdeck is the newest addition to SONAR Suite, Trampoline's Enterprise Social Computing platform for employees and managers. SONAR Dashboard provides social computing for employees to locate experts, connect and collaborate. SONAR Flightdeck and Dashboard are powered by SONAR Server, which identifies the social networks, information flows and topics within electronic information such as email, documents and IM. SONAR Suite provides enterprise-class security, privacy and integration.

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About Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems is a London-based developer of enterprise social computing software. Trampoline's SONAR Suite provides tools for employees to locate experts, connect and collaborate and for managers to understand their organisation's networks and information flows. Metascope is Trampoline's software for organisational network analysis of large networks.

Trampoline's clients include the Raytheon Company, a top 5 global management consultancy and the UK Foreign Office. Trampoline received Oracle's EMEA Innovation Award 2007 and was a finalist for CNET UK's Enterprise Software Product of the Year 2007. Trampoline is the first European "Enterprise 2.0" developer to receive institutional investment. For more information please visit www.trampolinesystems.com.

For media enquiries please contact:

Elena Dunn, Skywrite Communications

trampoline@skywritecomms.com

+44 20 7608 4650

Trampoline Systems welcomes Stephen Allott to Board of Directors

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:00:00 +0100

London, UK, 9th October 2007 – Trampoline Systems announces the appointment of Stephen Allott to the company’s Board of Directors where he will serve in a Non-Executive capacity. Trampoline Systems is a London-based company which provides software that harnesses human behaviour in the enterprise. Stephen concludes a string of high-profile appointments at Trampoline, following Peter Biddle’s appointment as Vice President of Development (joining from Microsoft) and Adrian Jones’ appointment as Vice President of Sales (joining from Oracle).

Stephen Allott was President, CFO and a main board Director of Micromuse from 1995-2001. During this time it grew from £1m to £140m in turnover and from 50 to 800 people. Stephen is currently Executive Chairman of Trinamo, a technology-specialist management consultancy, and has held positions at McKinsey, Sun Microsystems and Xerox. He is a City Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge University and is Non-Executive Chairman of COE Group plc and Executive Chairman of Inforsense Ltd.

Stephen says, “I’m delighted to join the board of Trampoline Systems. Trampoline is poised for growth and I look forward to playing a part in the company’s development as it establishes itself internationally as a leading provider of next-generation enterprise software.”

Charles Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Trampoline Systems, says, “Stephen’s appointment comes at a critical point in Trampoline’s development and I am thrilled to welcome him to the Board. His direct experience of growing a UK-based enterprise software business into a global leader will be a tremendous asset as Trampoline establishes its position in the changing enterprise software market.”

Trampoline provides software that harnesses social behaviour in the workplace. The company’s products offer a simple way of identifying knowledge assets, expertise and relationship networks within an organisation, enhancing productivity and efficiency and bringing archived information to life. By uniting information with the social behaviour which surrounds it, organisations can empower their employees to find the people and answers they need.

About Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems is an enterprise software developer based in London, UK. Trampoline’s products harness social behaviour throughout organisations to pinpoint expertise, leverage relationships and relay knowledge where it’s needed. Clients include Raytheon Company, the UK Foreign Office and Channel 4 Television. Trampoline was honoured in the sixth Oracle PartnerNetwork Innovation Awards for EMEA and received Oracle’s UK Partner Innovation Award 2006. The UK Government recognised Trampoline’s pioneering technology with a Research Award in 2004 and Trampoline is the first European “Enterprise 2.0” developer to receive institutional investment.

Oracle Sales Star Joins Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:00:00 +0100

London, UK, 11th September 2007 – Trampoline Systems, a London-based enterprise software developer, announces the appointment of Adrian Jones as Vice President of Sales. Adrian brings to Trampoline 25 years of experience in enterprise technology sales and establishing new products in the marketplace. He joins Trampoline from Oracle Corporation, where he served as the top salesman globally in the Oracle Embedded Business Unit. At Trampoline Adrian will lead sales strategy and execution, establishing a global sales force to cement Trampoline’s position as a pioneer in next-generation enterprise software. Adrian arrives just weeks after Microsoft hotshot Peter Biddle, who joined Trampoline as Vice President of Development in August 2007.

Adrian specialises in establishing new businesses and technology in Europe. Prior to his tenure at Oracle Adrian was Managing Director of Sleepycat Europe Ltd. where he was responsible for building the Berkeley DB business in Europe and managing the acquisition of the company by Oracle in 2006. Adrian was Vice President of EMEA at Versant for eight years before this. At Versant he oversaw the company’s European operations, led the growth of Versant from number four to number one in the object database market in Europe and opened up the financial sector to Versant’s technology.

Adrian says: “I am delighted to be joining Trampoline at such an exciting time for the company and the industry. Trampoline’s technology is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of today’s global enterprises as they intensify their focus on the social networks which are so crucial for collaboration and innovation. I look forward to honing Trampoline’s sales strategy, further strengthening the valued partnership between Oracle and Trampoline and building Trampoline’s presence in this growing market.”

Charles Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of Trampoline Systems, says: “Adrian’s extraordinary successes at Oracle and Sleepycat are a testament to his intuition for the needs of large enterprises. Adrian’s specific experience introducing emerging technologies to new markets will be hugely valuable for SONAR and future product releases. I’m thrilled he’s joining the team as we continue to establish Trampoline as the leading provider of next-generation software for the enterprise.”

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Microsoft hotshot Peter Biddle joins London’s Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:00:00 +0100

LONDON, UK, 8th August 2007 - Trampoline Systems, a London-based enterprise software developer, announces the appointment of senior Microsoft visionary Peter Biddle as Vice President of Development. Peter invented the theory of the “Darknet”, a private virtual network used to share digital content, led Microsoft’s entry into DVD and prototyped PVR. At Trampoline Peter will apply his expertise to engineering operations, including the continuing development of SONAR. He is tasked with establishing Trampoline’s products as the new standard in next-generation enterprise technology.

A globally recognised figure in the technology community, Peter has a wealth of experience as a strategist, innovator and technical communicator, serving both the enterprise and consumer markets. Peter’s recent work has been in the security field, masterminding and shipping core enterprise security features, including BitLocker™ drive encryption, in Microsoft Windows®. Peter also managed long-term strategic technical partnerships with some of the largest IT companies in the world.

Peter says: “Trampoline is a really exciting, fast growth company. While I miss my Microsoft team very much, I’m incredibly stoked to be moving to London to work in this promising new space. The people here at Trampoline are super smart and I feel like I really fit in. We’re in a brand new field of computing that I think will be as important to our customers five years from now as security has been for the past five. It’s awesome to be making the future a better place again.”

Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems says: “Having Peter join the team is a big step forward for Trampoline. Peter has an unrivalled record managing engineering operations and collaborating with blue chip partners. His vision and leadership will be instrumental as Trampoline’s development team continues to expand. With Peter on board Trampoline’s customers can look forward to even more terrific products.”

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WorkTech North - The Lowry, Salford Quays, Greater Manchester

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0100

WorkTech08 North brings together some of the biggest and brightest names in workplace and technology to debate, discuss and divulge the latest thinking on the future of workplace and technology. This year's theme is Creative Places, New Media, Future of Work. Leading global speakers will come together to offer a unique insight into case studies of innovation and visions of the future. Philip Ross, CEO of Cordless Group, and Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems, will discuss The Connected Enterprise. The session looks at technology trends that empower employees to connect, collaborate and innovate; and examines ways of strengthening informal employee networks across departments and geographies.

Learn more here.

Enterprise 2.0 Conference - Boston, USA

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Trampoline is exhibiting at booth 209 and hosting a drinks party on Tuesday 10th.

Learn more about Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2008

Web 2.0 Expo - San Francisco, USA

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Meet Trampoline at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco. Visit us at the Oracle booth and hear Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems, discuss enterprise social computing on Wednesday 23rd April at 1:20pm.

Find out more about Web 2.0 Expo

Red Herring Europe 100 - Malta

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Charles Armstrong will be giving an introduction to Trampoline, a Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 company.

Find out more about Red Herring Europe 100

KM World and Intranets 2007 - San Jose, USA

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

The theme for KM World 2007 is KM 2.0: A New World for the Enterprise, exploring new ways to exchange knowledge within the enterprise. Charles Armstrong will be speaking on Enterprise 2.0: Enterprise of the Future at 10:30am on Wednesday 7th November, opening the track Enterprise of the Future: Strategies.

Find out more about KM World and Intranets 2007

Defrag - Denver, USA

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Charles Armstrong will be participating in a panel session on Social Networking in the Enterprise on the first day of Defrag, Monday 5th November at 1:15pm.

Defrag is in its first year and takes place on 5th-6th November 2007. The program centres on the space that lives in between knowledge management, “social” networking, collaboration and business intelligence.

Find out more about Defrag

English Tech Tour 2007 - London, Southampton and Manchester, UK

Trampoline Systems — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:00:00 +0100

The English Tech Tour is the 27th Euro Tech Tour. It will showcase the UK's top 25 most promising new technology companies. It takes place in London, Southampton and Manchester from 17-19th October 2007. Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems, will be giving a presentation introducing Trampoline and our views on the future of enterprise software on Thursday 18th October at the National Oceonography Centre, Southampton.

http://www.techtour.com/english07/index.php

ETRE - Budapest, Hungary

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Charles Armstrong will be giving a presentation introducing Trampoline and outlining his views on the future of enterprise software on Monday 8th October at 3:30pm.

ETRE will see over 700 technology CEOs, entrepreneurs and financiers converge on Budapest to discover innovative technologies, secure funding, establish new alliances, solidify existing partnerships and exchange insights.

http://www.herringevents.com/etre07/index.html

Essential Web 2007 - London, UK

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Charles Armstrong will be demonstrating SONAR and discussing the impact of the web on work at Library House's Essential Web 2007 on 27th June at the BFI IMAX, London. The one-day event showcases Europe's foremost technology start-ups and provides a snapshot of innovation in Europe and Israel.

Charles is part of the session ˜Harnessing the power of the web for work: sharing and collaborating online and on the move". He'll be discussing Enterprise 2.0, among other topics, with entrepreneurs from Cebase, G.ho.st, Huddle and Yuuguu along with Sam Sethi of Vecosys and Alain-Gabriel Courtines of Intel Capital.

http://www.libraryhouse.net/web07/

Innovate! Europe - Zaragoza, Spain

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 07 May 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Charles and I will be at Innovate! Europe in Zaragoza, Spain next week. Trampoline has been chosen by organisers the Guidewire Group to exhibit and speak as one of Europe's 30 leading start-ups. Charles will be demonstrating SONAR at 6:30pm on Wednesday 9th.

Innovate! Europe is an annual conference, organised by the Guidewire Group, which brings together Europe's innovation ecosystem. If you're at the conference and interested in learning more about Trampoline and SONAR then here's your chance!

http://www.innovate-events.com/2007/

Internet World - London, UK

Trampoline Systems — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Trampoline will be exhibiting at Internet World 2007 with [Zogix](http://www.zogix.com/), a fellow enterprise software start-up and Oracle partner. Charles Armstrong will be giving a presentation on Enterprise 2.0 with Charles Vivian, VP Operations at Zogix, and David Rajan, Director of Emerging Business at Oracle, at 3:30pm on Wednesday 2nd May. The event will be held at Earls Court exhibition centre, London.

http://www.internetworld.co.uk/

ETech 2007 - San Diego, USA

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Trampoline's CEO, Charles Armstrong, and User Experience Manager, Mike Stenhouse, are presenting at ETech 2007, San Diego, next week. Entitled Collective Intelligence, Indeterminacy and the Illusion of Control, their session will offer an ethnographer's perspective on how humans interact with complex systems and what this means for a new generation of social or "sociomimetic" technologies.

If you're at the conference you can find them in Douglas B at 3:05pm on Tuesday 27th March, please pop in and say 'Hi'!

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2007/

WebVentures 2007 - San Mateo, USA

Trampoline Systems — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Charles Armstrong will be presenting an introduction to Trampoline at the first Web Ventures conference, being held on March 20-21 at the Marriott in San Mateo, CA. Web Ventures, a Dow Jones VentureWire event, will explore the technologies, business models and markets that are poised for long-term success on the Web.

http://webventures.dowjones.com/

Marketing Executive - London

Trampoline Systems — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Trampoline is looking for an intelligent, enterprising marketeer to get stuck in to our marketing activities. You will gain experience across the marketing mix, including PR, events and online as well as working on messaging and corporate materials. You will be responsible for real projects from day one and will find yourself working on everything from webinars to PR campaigns to tradeshows. The role is a great mix of the complexities of B2B marketing with the cool stuff more usually associated with B2C. Trampoline has a reputation as an innovative, stylish company at the forefront of its field and you'll play a key part in ensuring we retain and develop this position!

Requirements

Skills

Excellent communications skills are vital. Written and verbal skills are paramount, visual flair is a bonus. You are very bright, quick-thinking and able to handle multiple tasks and priorities, as well as able to work to tight schedules.

The enterprise software communications and sales process is a complicated business so you need to be able to grasp new concepts quickly and understand the differing needs of multiple audiences. You don't need to be technically-minded, but must be able to understand and explain complex ideas simply.

The role will involve working with many types of people, including Trampoline's technical team, senior management and PR and design agencies, so you need excellent interpersonal skills and self-confidence. Ambition and creative thinking are important qualities too.

Start-ups have particular demands in that everything moves at a break-neck pace and priorities are always shifting. You need to be able to keep calm within the storm and move with the tides. Your flexibility and determination will be rewarded with a great working environment, interesting work and unrivalled experience.

Experience

The role is ideal for graduate or a second job. Experience of marketing or communications through employment, internships or extracurricular activities would be a plus, as would an interest in technology and its applications.

Education

Bachelor's degree in any discipline.

Location

Shoreditch, London.

Compensation

Competitive and dependent on experience, plus employee share option plan.

What is Trampoline?

Trampoline is a software start-up of 20 people. We make and sell enterprise social computing software. In layman's terms, that means our software is influenced by internet tools like Facebook and solves problems such as expertise location for large enterprises. Our clients include Raytheon Company and a global top 5 management consultancy. Accolades include the Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 and Oracle's EMEA Innovation Award 2007. Trampoline raised $6m in Series A investment from the Tudor Group in March 2007 and was named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner in 2008.

It?s not just who you know?

Peter Biddle — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We’ve been discussing the issue highlighted by this posting internally. I think that the question boils down to this: Do people currently feel so proprietary about their professional connections that they feel their connections must remain confidential to remain professionally competitive? In the fairly recent past some have certainly felt this way, but the interent is radically [...]

Japanese Business Culture and Social Computing

Charles Armstrong

A couple of weeks ago I was in Sapporo at the Infinity Ventures Summit (the site’s in Japanese) to talk about the role of informal networks in business and show off Trampoline’s SONAR Suite. This is the largest technology innovation conference in Japan, bringing together the leading start-ups, corporations, analysts and investors. The focus was [...]

WorkTech08 North

Rebecca Kemp

Charles Armstrong, Trampoline’s CEO, will be speaking at WorkTech08 North in a few week’s time. WorkTech, organised by the Cordless Group, is a forum on the future of work and the workplace and is in it’s fifth year. The theme this time is Creative Places, New Media and The Future of Work, so it’s likely [...]

Visualivideo

Rebecca Kemp

I had a video made from the visualisations in Trampoline’s products for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference party. The party played with the theme “No man is an island”, for which we had this video showing, blow ups of Charles’ photography from St. Agnes (the tiny island on which he did the ethnographic research into information [...]

E2 Wednesday: The Toaster-Killing Cloud, E2 Clusterfage, You Give Good Boothage, There?s Such a ...

Peter Biddle — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It’s Wednesday afternoon at Enterprise 2.0. In spite of a few frustrating failures in infrastructure, it?s been a really great two days here at E2 for Trampoline.�� Right now I?m sitting in the EMC booth stealing their hardline because WiFi is down (again) and our hardline is down (again). Evidently Enterprise 2.0 still doesn?t mean reliable [...]

The Hub FTW! Enterprise 2.0 in Boston Starts in a Week!

Peter Biddle — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Trampoline will be in Boston in force in a week’s time�(starting Monday 8 June) for Enterprise 2.0. There are some great sessions, but the very best one will be the one where we buy you drinks - that’s Tuesday night. It says “smart dress is appreciated” but what we’d really like is if you show up [...]

On the hunt for a Marketing Executive

Rebecca Kemp

Trampoline’s looking for a Marketing Executive. It will be a challenging and fun role, ideal for a graduate or second-jobber. If you’re interested, or know someone who might be, please give me a shout! rebecca [at] trampolinesystems [dot] com, or +44 207 253 6959.

Gartner Top 10 Disruptive Technologies in 2008

Peter Biddle

Gartner is showing their top 10 disruptive technologies for 2008 right now here in Barcelona, and there’s some great stuff in here for us. I’m going to stick with the top 5 as we have plenty to think about there, and frankly the bottom 5 are a bit less clear so there’s not as much [...]

Habla Espanol? Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, Barcelona

Peter Biddle — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:00:00 +0100

I will be in Spain next week at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, representin’ Trampoline. There are some cool sounding sessions, and evidently there is also a concurrent Gartner event (why oh why do people run two events at once in the same place? it’s hard enough with 5+ tracks in one event!) for us plucky [...]

Marketing and morals: No woman is an island?

Rebecca Kemp — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:00:00 +0100

In which a sticker not only ignites the latent inner arts critic of your correspondent. It arouses her rampant, explicit feminist. One of the four or five women I spoke to on the Web 2.0 Expo floor declined a ?No man is an island? sticker with the rebuttal ?I?m a woman.? I was dumbstruck, a rare [...]

removing global fixtures for ruby tests

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

global fixtures are evil, but we’ve got a bunch of unit tests depending on them, so we still need them around here’s a neat [and generally fast, though a degenerate O(#tables^2) case is possible] way of deleting all fixtures without invoking db dependent ways of ignoring foreign-key constraints, and without loading all the objects into memory [...]

Open Visualisation Workshop at the Trampery

Jan Berkel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

Trampoline Systems is hosting a visualisation workshop this coming Saturday, 24th May, organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Come along if you’re interested in open source visualisation technologies (Prefuse, Flare etc.). The goal is to have a very informal setting to talk about various aspects of visualising data. Find out more in the official announcement. Hope [...]

Creating DMG Files Without MacOS X

Jon Cowie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

I’ve put together a script for creating DMG files without using OS X…it requires Linux, I’ve tested it on Kubuntu 7.10 but it should work on anything recent. Run the following commands: # This gets and builds a patched version of Apple's diskdev_cmds package which will work on Linux wget http://www.mythic-beasts.com/resources/appletv/mb_boot_tv/diskdev_cmds-332.14.tar.gz wget http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~mcgee/diskdev_cmds/diskdev_cmds-332.14.patch.bz2 tar xzf diskdev_cmds-332.14.tar.gz bunzip2 -c diskdev_cmds-332.14.patch.bz2 | patch [...]

@media Ajax 2007

Mike Stenhouse — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

I have the honour and terror of presenting at @media Ajax on home turf this November. It?s a privilege to be speaking alongside the likes of Brendan Eich (creator of Javascript), Douglas Crockford (inventor of JSON), John Resig (JQuery lead) and about a dozen other top dogs.

Springy 0.3 released

Jan Berkel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

No big changes this time, mainly compatibility fixes for JRuby 1.0. It is now also possible to build the project using Maven, for those too afraid to use rake. Documentation and code for springy are available here.

Tracing file access on Mac OSX

Tomasz Wegrzanowski — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

I just started working at Trampoline Systems yesterday. Some of you might know my blog already (the one with kitten pics and programming rants). The first thing I did was configuring all the software on my new MacBook. Most of it went all right without any problems, but a few gems didn?t want to install, complaining about jni.h missing. jni.h was on the box, so the problem was basically that the gems were looking for it in a wrong place. Problems like that can usually be solved by strace -e trace=file gem install whatever | grep 'jni.h' and a symlink. Not this time, because Macs does have strace. There?s something called ktrace, but it didn?t seem to provide information I needed.

Java and Rails integration with GoldSpike

Jan Berkel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

While trying to create a unified testing framework (shared between Rails and our Java backend code) I came across ActiveRecordJDBC which is an adapter to use JDBC drivers with JRuby on Rails. It works fine, although it can be a bit complicated to get a DRY database.yml configuration. The goal is to get rid of our dbunit/manually crafted database tests on the Java side by using ActiveRecord fixtures. After some research I found out about the Rails integration project (now called GoldSpike), which tries to make it easy to deploy a Rails app on a Java servlet container such as jetty. As far as I know Thoughtworks uses this approach to deploy their new product, Mingle. GoldSpike is under constant development but it is already usable, although a few patches were required. After everything was set up, a simple

growl-lastfm

Jan Berkel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

We use last.fm a lot in the office - but one thing I always found annoying was that there?s no easy way to find out what?s currently playing (you need to go to the web page and hit refresh, very distracting) so I knocked up a little ruby script which uses growl to display the currently playing song.

Select distinct with XSLT

Mike Stenhouse — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

While working on some tweaks to our website I decided that for the archive I needed to be able to select a list of categories used. Should be easy, right? Here?s a sample of the XML:

installing Oracle 10g on 64 bit centos 5

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100

We?ve just got ourselves a couple of new servers for running SONAR on, for internal use and demonstration. They are quite beefy, with 8GB RAM, 15k disks, and 8 x 3.2GHz threads. We decided to go with centos 5 as the operating system, since we have had pain installing Oracle on our debian platforms. Here is the install procedure I uncovered, which gets the server ready for SONAR on either MySQL or oracle. It covers installing Ruby, RubyGems, lots of useful Gems, Java, and Oracle 10g