Archive for the 'Web' Category
Wave Goodbye 5 Aug 2010
It seems awfully fast for Google to have pulled the plug on Wave. It was only first launched in May 09 and out of beta May 2010. Most non-techies haven’t even heard of it yet. New communication mediums don’t take off overnight, they’d have been looking at decades for a reasonable level of adoption. If [...]
What We Do Online Echoes in Eternity 21 Jul 2010
I only just started reading this NY Times article and it was enough to scare me. I’m very careful about what I put online and the web came fairly late to my childhood, but imagine having stuff from your teenage years pulled in front of you when you go for a job in your thirties. [...]
More Website Rip-Offs 10 Jul 2010
So I wrote about this last month but the BBC have announced the costings for another government website, which cost £105m over three years. The COI report has some detail – £6.2m on strategy and planning, £4.4m on design and build, £4.7m on hosting and infrastructure, £15.3m on content provision and £4.5m on testing and [...]
Government Websites are a Rip-Off 25 Jun 2010
What caught my eye in this article about the new government trying to simplify all the government websites, it was the costs: Just 46 websites cost £94 million to build, with staff costs of £32m Go a read that again, £94 million. That’s in excess of £2 million each! The government websites don’t do enough [...]
Taking Control of Your Social Networking 12 May 2010
I’ve written before about the growing concerns of letting other companies have access to and control over your data, let alone the security problems it can entail. So reading the piece from the NY Times about diaspora* rung a few bells. I’m not a social networker, too much like hard work, but I like to [...]
I Don’t Get URL Shorteners 18 Aug 2009
There’s been a flurry of talk around URL shortening services like TinyURL and its many imitators of late. Some of the talk has been around which sites use which service, new ones launching, existing ones failing and everything in between. I, basically, don’t care. The reason for this is because I don’t get them (it’s [...]
Owning the Web 14 Aug 2009
This post over at Coding Horror and this one from Read Write Web seem fairly related and are just more voices to add to what seems to be becoming a torrent against the cloud (maybe that should be wind). Aspects covered in both of these are some of the reasons I’m migrating my photos away [...]
My Thoughts on Photo Hosting 22 Jul 2009
Way back when I got caught up in the Flickr hype and set up an account. They offered a good deal to go pro for two years too, so I did. I’m not sure what started me thinking but I knew my account was up sometime this year so I had a quick poke around [...]
LocateTV 13 Oct 2007
OK, so I’ve given in to the charms of Lotte over at LocateTV. I was contacted a couple of weeks ago to see if I wanted to have a go at their limited beta and provide some feedback. Shortly thereafter it went into public beta anyway. Obviously the aim is to get as many people [...]
Dated URLs for Posts 25 Sep 2007
If you look at the URLs to my posts you’ll notice that they have the year, month and day, along with the title in them. Personal choice when I started the site, but a lot of people work this way. I’ve noticed when I’m trawling through Google looking for advice, reviews or something else the [...]