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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Microformats at the Radio Times

Monday, July 9, 2007

I have a piece of software called Operator installed on my computer, which adds some nice functionality to my Firefox web browser. It looks for things called microformats. Microformats are structured pieces of information in web pages that can describe all sorts of things like people’s names and addresses and calendar events, in a standard [...]

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Another error page

Sunday, July 8, 2007

This one not so good, from Youtube.

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Zoomf.com in the news

Thursday, July 5, 2007

My friend, Mike Carter, is in the Daily Telegraph today, talking about some of the data that the Zoomf property search platform has produced. I have a small involvement in Zoomf, and I’ve worked with most of the executive team over a number of years in different ways. It’s really exciting to see it starting [...]

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recaptcha wasn’t working, now it is

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Apologies to Paolo at http://gnuband.org/ and thanks for letting me know. Recaptcha, the software that stops spammers attacking this blog, had stopped working. I’ve sorted it out now, and a Freebase invitation is on its way to your inbox.

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They can certainly drink in Liverpool

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

They can certainly drink in Liverpool Originally uploaded by harkmopwood 1 bottle of Larger please!

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Digital uploaders – an important minority

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Research by my colleagues at Agency.com has highlighted the existence of a small group of hard-core digital uploaders, about 8% of the online population, who do most of the creating of user generated content, enjoyed by so many. The research was unveiled at Cannes the week before last by James Clifton, our European Group Strategy [...]

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The Facebook API – a very useful appraisal

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/analyzing_the_f.html contains a very helpful and balanced appraisal of the Facebook API, now that it’s been around for a few weeks. The key points for me were: The amount of thought and effort that has gone into the API’s design at Facebook, and the opportunities it creates as a result The API gives very good [...]

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A new profession, if you can write

Monday, July 2, 2007

This story at the BBC surprised me. Apparently some people are paying others to be them online, updating their social networking content at Facebook, LinkedIn and on their blogs, when they’re too busy to do it themselves. The money is pretty good, if you can find a busy professional with disposable cash who needs to [...]

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