With the BBC being funded by licence payers in the UK, it has restrictions on what it can and cannot do – which makes it frustrating if you are outside the country trying to watch things. But now, unsurprisingly, they are looking to offer a commercial website outside of the UK, funded by ads. This […]
Break Over
Over the last few days I’ve not been blogging…other things to do or not do. But today is the last full day in the US before I travel back tomorrow so it’s time to round things up a little. I’ve been staying with Tara Hunt over the last few days and it’s been an intersting […]
MusicIP..behind the idea
SXSW Music has a completely different vibe to the Interactive Conference. Many people don’t come out till dark, some streets are closed off, and music assaults your ears from all directions. My chance to stay for the extra time came through Rick Segal and MusicIP, who covered the cost of the music ticket for me. […]
The Church of Content
There’s a new religion, or at least a revamped version of an old one. Content and creative and art and music and all that stuff used to belong only to the individual or to the group. Then we got patronage and wealthy individuals could commission stuff, could pay to make things and see things and […]
Womens; Visibility, Value Add and Tagging
A few random things learnt today…that you have to blag your way into every bar when they ask for ID. I have a reluctance to carry around my passport, but so far the line “I’m English, I don’t have picture ID” seems to work as managed to get into the bars OK so far. Another […]
CC Salon
Last night I went along to a CC Salon event held at Shine. For someone more used to London events, the turnout was pretty impressive. There were brief presentations about Fireant, about Geek Entertainment TV and about Second Life before the chat and networking started. It was the first time I’d seen Second Life in […]
Blooker Prize
The short list for the Blooker Prize has been announced. I’ve been reading hackoff.com over the last few months which I’ve really enjoyed; I used to read Belle de Jour a few years ago, not sure if the book is baased on the old stuff. So now I need to go take a look at […]
Offers in comments for millions
I’m now getting comment spams offering me millions if only I transfer somebody’s money out of Ghana – does this mean that it has been got out of Nigeria and is now stuck there? The email address is from a Mr Morgan, who thinks he is “Barrister:EVANS AHMED.A solicitor at law” personal attorney to Mr.B.J.Jordan […]
Google Page Creator
This did not get off to a good start…having default purple layout is enough to make me quit the screen very quickly. And when I went to change the colour scheme, it decided to throw a wobbly. Second time round, it behaves…and so I produce this. Very bad, no thougth what so ever, but in […]
Edgeio listings
Edgeio is an interesting idea. A start up from Mike Arrington from TechCrunch it utilises the increasing spread of tags to drive a listing service. Posting information on your own blog and tagging the post with listing will cause it to be picked up by the service and added to the lists. Having the web2.0 […]
Productivity Experiment
If we stopped all web access at work (excepting email and company sites) would productivity go up or down?
Children’s Tales
At work, a few of the team have children and recently they’ve hit the web generation gap. The team all remember LBW, Life Before Web, and have embraced the new world to various degrees. Not so the kids – they know nothing else. Two dads in the team have recently come in with tales of […]
Global Flyer Tracking
Joaquin from Metal Toad Media added a comment about a movie version of the trip tracker from Global Flyer’s recent flight…fast fast run through of the trip. (but needs a slow down button…the countries zoom past very quickly).
Measuremap bought by Google
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sex.com sells for $14million!
Apparently, the domain name sex.com has been sold for $14million. The RoI must be good on this. Surprisingly, considering some of the things it does block, that domain is not blocked by the company firewall censor, but it is not really safe for work.
Christmas Blogs
BL Ochman has a round up of some relevant Santa blogs. And don’t forget the annual event of the NASA tracking webpage, which shows you exactly where Santa is at any time during his journey around the world. EDITED: I found the right page, whioch was not the one that sits on top of google!
The Bar
Recently, my company launched a new website, focused on the US market, called thebar.com. It’s got a few firsts for us such as a portfolio site and a heavy flash interactive site, plus some heavy marketing coming in the new year.