Measuremap, my favourite blog measurement tool, has been sold to Google. No longer does the screen proclaim it’s being bought to you by Adapative Path, it’s Google all the way. The email from Jeff Veen talking about the aquisition promises good things to come: : I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been […]
Women in Technology
I;ve read two great posts this week on Women in Technology.http://giagia.blogspot.com/2006/02/modelling-or-whoring-atoms-one-thing.html The first, from Gia, addresses her feelings after watching Anina at Lift06. She was not impressed, feeling that Anina was there because of being a model: I’m genuinely glad that Anina is excited about “technology”, but can’t we as people who are involved with […]
Feedburner Announcement
Feedflare…announcing an API to “extend the usefulness and reach of your syndicated content by integrating third party web services and offering them as linked actions users can take when viewing feed content, wherever it is displayed ” feedburner.com
Future of Web Apps – Ryan Carson
How to Build an Enterprise Web App on a Budget Ryan Carson – DropSend Definitely the most practicaal – reall figures and good advice. Why it’s important What’s the big deal? you don;t have to be big anymore…this has changed the landscape Why now – broadband; people are comformatble with web apps. They provide ‘common […]
Future of Web Apps – Shaun Inman
Shaun Inman : 10 Reasons Why You Need to Build an API still no spelling – it may be tidied later mint.com What is an API: a documented means of interacting from one application to another. A successful one obscures the storage format and the retrieval process Don’t change it – people rely on and […]
Future of Web Apps – Ruby on Rails
David Heinemeier Hansson – Happy Programming with Ruby on Rails. Still my typing sucks! Introducing a Silver bullet…MOTIVATION motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor (this falls into the No Shit Sherlock statements…but it’s too easily forgotten) Motivation comes from happiness. SO you need to optimise your tools for happiness. Beautiful […]
Future of Web Apps – Tom Coates
Tom Coates: Designing Web 2.0-native Products for Fun and Profit Update: The Presentation can be found on plasticbag.org – which sort of makes these notes redundant. This was one of the most enjoyable presentations of the day. Despite Tom commenting on the URC channel through the previous 2 that all his ideas had gone, the […]
Future of Web Apps: Flickr
Cal Henderson – Flickr 10 reasons to love web2.0 Flickr – Awsome Web2.0 – kinda awesome Birthday – in SanFran on Friday. they’re 2 Passionate users are important…they care about building Flickr – gets people to like it. They need to get people to care about it by caring themselves. Difference btw what users want […]
Future of Web Apps – Delicious Things we’ve learnt
I’m sitting here with about 800 other people at the Carson Workshops summit on the Future of Web Apps. This will be a bad attempt to take notes – unedited or spellchcked Joshua Schachter = things we’ve learnt. Browsers – browser compatibility issues drives you nuts. Header issues cause pain. Scaling: don’t do it! Whatever […]
Win a year’s commute
Passenger Focus, the ‘independent rail consumer watchdog’ is running a competition where the prize is a annual season ticket plus the honour of doing a fortnightly blog for their website, talking about the travelling experience. I’m not sure at all I’d like to be called a ‘consumer’ of rail services – I prefer passenger or […]
ORG Networking Event
Went along to the second networking event from the Open Rights Group. Firstly, Cory Doctorow talked about copyright and the various changes that are being pushed for from media companies; secondly Phil Booth talked about the campaign against the UK ID card, which comes back to the Commons on Monday. Tom Morris has done a […]
Ultimate Flight
Last year, Steve Fossett made the first solo non-stop flight around the world. This year, he tries to go one better by attempting the longest flight ever made – targetting 26,000 miles, 3000 miles more than last year. The plane carries 18,000 lbs of fuel and needs 10,000 ft to take off, so it’s using […]
Gervais Podcast Record
As reported in the Guardian, Ricky Gervais’s podcast (as hosted by the Guardian) is hitting records when it comes to downloads. Since starting in December, there have been 2.9million downloads, an average of 294,755 per episode. WOnder what the hosting/bandwidth charge is?
New York Dining
I’m trying to choose a restaurant in New York for a visit at the end of the month for an end of project party (assuming we get the website live by then!). Searching for ‘New york restaurant’ gives me 112 million results on google and even the organic results look like advertisment driven pages. This […]
Superbowl Ads
I’ve probably watched more TV ads today than I normally do in a week. Google and AOL both have a collection of ads that were shown in the US showing of the Superbowl last night. I’ve seen lots of build-up for what appears to be the prime placement for TV ads every year, including releases […]
Hi Calories
The Metro today features a high calory desert that is getting food campaigners up in arms – despite first appearing on the BBC food site over 2 years ago. It may be tied into the news that chocolate companies are going to increase the amount of information on packs to ensure we are educated about […]
Looking for People
The Big Blog Company, (I’m going to be working with them) are looking for some more people – two consultants and 2 techies. If you’re interested, drop Adriana a line.
Wiki Wednesday
Last night I wandered along to Wiki Wednesday, where Ross dropped in on his way back from Helsinki. This was a focused gathering, so I think most people had a chance to to talk to everyone there. There’s definitely a group of people I keep bumping into at these type of sessions, like Sarah and […]
IE7
I was going to download the IE7 Beta and take a look at that – I’m pretty sure it’s going to impact a number of the websites I support and wanted to get an early look at any issues. But as it only runs on XP, can’t test it on this machine. Time to go […]
Corporate Policies
One of the letters on my doormat when I got back last week was from the company, announcing the relaunch of its wellbeing policies, along with a telecall centre to provide you with anomynous support for all types of problems. The letter had obviously gone through legal at some point, as there was a wonderful […]