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Monthly Archives: July 2007

V&A Village Fete

Some of my photos from the V&A Village Fete can be found here.
The Fete was a great afternoon out. The highlights for us were:

Texteducation, where competitors tapped out text messages on modified dance mats against each other and the clock
The badge making, where we chose items from a collection of catalogues to be [...]

It’s Sysadmin Day!

Happy Sysadmin Day!

Zoomf are looking for guinea pigs

My friends at Zoomf.com are looking for people who can talk about how they use the Internet, especially to search for things like property, to help them identify and prioritise new features for their website. Anyone who does help will get paid a bit, and it should be fun. All the details are here.

San Francisco power problems hit web 2.0 stalwarts

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/365_main_datace.html tells us that a data centre in San Francisco went down through power problems yesterday, taking out some pretty big and important web 2.0 businesses including:

Technorati
Livejournal blogging
Typepad blogging
Vox blogging
Craigslist, the classified listings site, owned by ebay

We had intermittent power problems ourselves in SF as well yesterday, so it sounds like something fairly widespread.
I spend [...]

Book a doctor’s appointment on your TV

Continuing the trend of things doing stuff they weren’t originally intended for… From http://www.emis-online.com/news/article/index.asp?212

Over 1,100 surgeries are now in a position to offer their patients the ability to book, amend and cancel GP appointments via digital interactive TV and mobile. In a concerted effort to offer e-Government services to the widest range [...]

IASH – Internet ad networks policing themselves

There’s some reporting in the press at the moment about the appearance of big-name brand advertising on some very dubious websites. Don’t click here if you’re sensitive, but this site shows videos taken by members of the public, of real fights in the street, and somehow some very big names have been advertising there. Obviously [...]

Travel Thoughts

Travel’s on my mind at the moment, for a number of reasons. We’re planning a big trip at the end of the year, and it’s incredible how much easier it is today to research and transact online, even for some very remote and obscure locations. BUT there are still some terrible websites out there, operated [...]

I’ve moved my blog

I’ve moved my blog from my own server to Wordpress for a while, as I’ve been having awful problems with the Movable Type software that I was using. Most people probably won’t even notice the difference, and when I get time I WILL move it back.
All I’ll say is that MT4 is not ready yet, [...]

Lovely advertisement

It’s very rare for me to really enjoy a video advertisement, on TV at least, the cinema ones tend to be better, so I was really, really pleased to see this one yesterday. It’s a little story, 2 minutes long, and it’s got everything.

wunderLOOP’s Real-Time Behavioural Advertising Implemented By Tiscali

In May, I wrote about a behavioural targeting panel session I attended at Internet World. This week Tiscali announced that they would be rolling out Wunderloop’s targetting solution to their ISP customers. This is an interesting development, because Tiscali are an ISP, with access to a broad range of behavioural data from their customers.
As I [...]