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Category Archives: web 2.0

Buddypress – now installed on this blog

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

I’ve installed the Buddypress add-on and theme compatibility on this blog. For an explanation of what that is and why I’ve done it, click here.

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Stats from bit.ly

Monday, November 9, 2009

This morning’s fascinating fact is about the bit.ly URL shortening service:
If you have a bit.ly link, for example http://bit.ly/4dWnCu
you can insert ‘info’ into the URL thus:
http://bit.ly/info/4dWnCu
to get all sorts of facts and figures, like how many clicks that link has had, which sites are referring using it, who’s tweeting about that particular URL, and that [...]

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Fantastic customer service

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Graze are worried about the possible postal strike this week. So they’ve reworked their product offering so it doesn’t go off in the post, and sent this very cool email.
The brown boxes are arriving at our office in huge quantities now: Pod1’s going to need a bigger mailbox soon.

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Graze.com – fantastic new snack delivery service

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I just received my first delivery from graze.com, a service that delivers healthy (and not healthy) snacks to your home or office regularly. The website’s a great experience (lots of control, rating opportunities, personalised product and some lovely Ajax coding), and the product looks good too. This is the sort of smart innovative new service [...]

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Google signs deal with Twitter… still no money for Twitter

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

According to this article at Adage, marketers can now create ad units for Google Adsense that syndicate their last 5 tweats, with the call to action to follow them on Twitter, rather than to visit their website.  The commitment for a consumer in following someone extra on Twitter is quite low, so this might lead [...]

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Oh no, I broke it!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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When the weather’s bad…

Monday, February 2, 2009

Why not walk?

Enter your starting point (e.g. postcode) to get walking directions

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Facebook – the engineering could be better

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Facebook is often referred to as a social utility. It’s become an important aspect of many people’s daily lives, used to organise events, stay in touch and so on. Some have practically stopped using email for personal communications: Facebook can keep all your friends’ addresses so you don’t have to remember them.
Not long ago, I [...]

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Google is replacing my desktop

Monday, May 26, 2008

I have a fairly complicated personal IT set-up. We have a Mac at home, I use Vista on my “work” computer, and I carry my Asus eee (running Ubuntu in its eeexubuntu flavour) practically wherever I go. Gradually, little by little, Google is stitching it all together for me, creating a little ecosystem of applications [...]

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Asus eee – open source support

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Last week I bought an Asus eee laptop. It’s a tiny machine, weighing less than 2 pounds with a 7 inch screen, and it runs Linux as its operating system.
The experience so far has been really good. The machine works well, the software’s great, and for £250 I’ve got a machine that’s faster and more [...]

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