Archive for the 'Web' Category

LocateTV

13/10/2007

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 [...]

Dated URLs for Posts

25/09/2007

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 [...]

Finding Similar Items

19/09/2007

A lot of places, mainly online stores, now have the ‘if you like this you may like…’ or ‘customers who bought this also bought…’ features to help (and encourage) you to find similar items you might like. Unfortunately they’re often not very good, people buy a lot of wild things on one order so [...]

Missing Flickr Features

9/09/2007

I wouldn’t say I’m an amateur photographer, I have a couple of cameras, one of which is comfortably above your typical point-and-shoot and I think about my pictures a bit more than most, so I seem to get some praise for them, but I don’t avidly go out looking for shots. Anyway, recently it [...]

Social Network Slapdown

15/07/2007

I’m totally with Joe over at Webby’s World regarding social networks. I have two problems with them:

Nobody I know uses them, not my friends, not my parents, not my brother, not my workmates, no one. The only person I know who uses any of them is my teenage sister.
Even if they did use [...]

Heavyweight Firefox

13/07/2007

I have to say that I too have started to notice that Firefox isn’t the svelte, lightweight IE-fighter it once was, it seems closer to being a overweight Rocky looking to for another round in the ring. I love Firefox, it’s great, just look how it forced MS into releasing IE7, introduced tabbed browsing, [...]

Evolution in Action

6/02/2006

It seemed to me, not too long ago, that most of the obvious web applications, applications I’ve slowly been using more and more, were already in place and that we had market leaders that were difficult to topple. I’m not talking about Internet Explorer versus Firefox, nor any paid applications, many of these suckers [...]

Become a Pixel Tamer

4/02/2006

So, last week I started my own network. Pixel Tamers is a place where people, like me, who run small blogs and websites can join up in an effort to try and get a bit more exposure, a few more visitors and some like-minded collaborators. If you run a blog or website, why [...]

Search Records

21/01/2006

I’ve just finished watching The Money Programme episode titled ‘The World According to Google.’ I watched it online, as part of a trial the BBC is running, great idea (UK only I think). One of the topics covered was that Google log every search and service use to each IP address and store [...]

Help Wikipedia

5/01/2006

Wikipedia are appealing for more financial help. If, like me, you find the site invaluable, please head over and splash some cash, it doen’t have to be much, as they say on the telly, every little helps.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Whales probably puts it best:
Wikipedia is based on a very radical idea, the realization of [...]