Jason Calacanis’ new search engine Mahalo expands today, with Mahalo Greenhouse. You can apply to be a ‘part-time guide’, submit search entries and get paid for doing so, $10-15 but only if you are a US citizen or permanent resident. I’m neither but still work and pay taxes in the US – so I think […]
NY Tech Meetup
I went along to the NY Tech meetup last night and had a good time. Five short presentations from companies in the NY area, plus a couple of extras from James Hing of Hot or Not (who I also met with on Monday at an IAB event) and Dave Weinberger who gave a 10 minute […]
A New Treo
Through the kind people from Palm (and their PR agency Edelman) I received a nice Treo 680 to play with for a while to see how I like it (and then I have to send it back). This all started at Blogher Business, where they had a stall set up with devices and info. Up […]
My Telegraph
Via Adam Tinworth, I see that the Telegraph is launching a new service, called My Telegraph. Y My Telegraph allows any reader to create their own blog, store all the comments they make on other readers’ blogs and save articles to read later. Version one of the site, which you can see below, will be […]
Vodafone Betavine
If you had gone to NYC Mobile Monday or just like developing things for mobile phones, you may be interested in the launch of Vodafone’s Betavine Developer network.
Walmart Video and the importance of cross-browser testing
Walmart launch a new video download service today. Apparently their development team is browser challenged as they only appear to have IE available to them. Under that app, their site looks, well, not beautiful but at least OK. However, on Firefox it looks like this: I know that sites sometimes launch without full testing…and that […]
NYC January Mobile Monday
Update: I got the wrong impression from the talk (see, told you that this was all new) and Chaals has updated more in the comments and gives me a far clearer picture of what I was trying to understand. On Monday I went along to Mobile Monday, this month a 5 hour celebration of SVG […]
Local Service
Will Wheaton’s wistful and inciteful column over at Suicide Girls had me thinking that the replacement of local shops, which provide some kind of community connection, with the commoditised big chains has been a factor in the development of recommendation services such as Library Thing or Pandora. If we can’t get suggestions from the local […]
iPhone lawsuit
I guess Apple never got round to signing those licensing agreements with Cisco for use of their trademark term iPhone. And now they are suing. “Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name,” said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. “There […]
iPhone reactions
To be honest, I’m not really into phones. I have a pretty good one for the UK, all 3g and live tv and browsing etc but the data plan sucked and it’s no use where I am. And my US phone is just about manages to phone and text, there nothing else really to it. […]
iphone Countdown
If you are determined to get one and you want to find out how long you have to wait – iphonecountdown.com has the numbers for you. From Mike via Dan.
Online Tab Saver
With Firefox now allowing you to open the browser with the same tabs it closed down with by default, I’ve been looking for a way to synchronise open tabs across 2 or more PCs. So that where ever I am, i can have the same set of open tabs. There’s a number of ways to […]
Geek Activism
One of the posts I did find in trawling the new Technorati was Devanshu’s 95 Theses of Geek Activism. A great list og things that you should be concerned about, tying in well with many of the talks I attended over the weekend. Jello Biafra gave a a superb 2 hour keynote, focusing on the […]
Spam email
My domain is being used in a spam email, so I’m currently sitting on about 3000 returned/out of office mails. Not the best problem to have. Now I have to go through and delete everything 🙁
Warner Brothers and Downloads
I see that Warner Brothers are going to be providing downloads of movies and TV for about the same price as the DVDs at about the same time. They plan to use BitTorrent as vehicle. No need to manufacture a disk and packaging, no need to distribute, no need to provide the retailer with a […]
WeMedia the conference
I spent some of the morning watching the WeMedia on video stream and via the online chat and IRC, then got to see a couple of sessions at the conference. There is a lot of blogging coverage about the event, some from participants, others from the virtual attendees. The blurb says “The We Media Global […]
Swedish Beers
On Tuesday, I went off to the Swedish Beers night, a mobile networking event. Douglas from Sponge ws talking about mobile groups and marketing. The group Jane’s Addiction were given mobiles on a tour; fans were encouraged to sign up for a text group and the band sent updates tot he group whilst on the […]
London 2.0 Meetup
On Monday, I went along to a London 2.0 meeting. As usual with many of these meetups, the first time go along you’re never quite sure who you are looking for. But this time it was slightly easier. The venue chosen was near to the law courts so was full of suits; the meetup group, […]
Wifi everywhere?
The BBC ia running an article about the spread of wifi in the wild, with hotspots extending to form zones and more and more people getting wifi in their homes. What it doesn’t mention is the conflict between paid services and free wifi. Companies ever increasing their coverage is one thing, but without a single […]
Women In Technology Network
Last night I attended a networking event run by Women In Technology, with the topic of Flexibility in the workplace. There were 2 very different keynote speakers, a panel debate and then a chance to eat and drink and chat. Eileen Brown was up first, talking about how technology helps her be flexibile in the […]