The intranet in the workplace today is evolving albeit at a slow (sometime very slow) rate. I remember back in the Evolution days we used it for plainly common urls, storing common forms / word / excel docs etc. that everyone would need to edit, timesheets etc.

Then we added a few CGI apps like a serial generator for Sound Studio Pro and some other legacy products. Then pictures from the company parties, outings, - when an employee passed a driving test we’d go out for a company curry - stuff like that.

Going to other small/medium companies you’d see similar intranet systems. Then for larger institutions like Trinity Laban, you see things like a huge Sharepoint system to deal with. Students and Staff still communicate via email. Things like sharing photos from parties and even of performances are limited to the realms of Facebook and email.

Where/how Social Networking can fit

By no means the only way. Social Networking can solve many more problems than described here. Here are some things social networking can help.

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Just got back from ‘Mashed 2008′ run by the BBC with help from Multimap, Channel4, the Guardian etc. I randomly deceided to write an app for digital tv’s with tcp/ip connections. This was done in MHEG Plus, something the beeb have been working on to speed up MHEG development, essentially it’s a preprocessor. With it I wrote an app which can read details like your email/any notifications from a website (providing they’ve been cleaned up by a PHP script) and displays the messages on your TV.

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This post is a long work in progress but…

On this site, you may hear us mentioning a product called flow. This product is our core platform, which powers website we develop on.

The code behind flow could be described as an MVC-like structure but some things we do are different.

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So after a series of posts exploring a sensible, free-from-time-wasting way of sharing files, I’ve now found a better way.

I overlooked the whole Fuse and SSHFS situation. So now we can to connect to the server in a decent way (not using some dumb SFTP program) try:

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Building our network, improving products to solve our own information problems, maybe this will help you too.

At gobisoft, we’re constantly on the road and several of our employees work away from the office, so keeping a semi-centralised (the ’semi’ bit I’ll talk about in another post) location for our data is important.

We started by having folders on our own desktops and a ‘project’ directory on one of our webservers for common documents which we would access over SFTP. But this means we needed to use SCP/SFTP clients like WinSCP and Transmit.

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This article covers installing the freeware VMware Server on Ubuntu Server Editions on Linux. The basics will work on all Linux versions but there are some subtle differences for Ubuntu as far as prerequisites and Ubuntu versions are concerned.

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First up, if you’re running an earlier version of windows, good luck. It is possible to do this on windows 2000 but you’ll need to Google around for documentation, tips etc.

This isn’t a perfect solution because it means you’re going to have to remove File and Printer sharing for your PC. If you want a solution where you don’t need to do this, do your own research.

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Connecting and sharing files has always been a pain in the arse and we still haven’t got it perfect but here’s our solution (and policy). We use SMB over SSH.

If you’re a Mac user, you must go to System Preferences -> Sharing. In the Services tab, make sure that Windows Sharing is switched off.

Then use can use the following connection on the Terminal:

sudo ssh -L 139:gobisoft.org:139 username@gobisoft.org

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