Archive for the 'Web' Category

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 [...]

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 from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Finding Similar Items 19 Sep 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 Sep 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Feb 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 [...]