The Google developer conference is now over, the past 2 days have been really interesting both from the conference content point of view and the event itself.
My main focus for the 2 days was the Google App Engine cloud hosting system, I had read up on it before hand but ...
Facebook have just launched a public preview of there new site layout, it's available for anyone to view at www.new.facebook.com, at the moment you can only view your profile page, any attempt to view other pages redirects back.
One big change is the separation of the sections of the site, rather than ...
Google launched there long awaited Google Health product a couple of days ago and I have been filling in information to see what it's all about.
Late last year Microsoft launched there rival product HealthVault, this is a service I tried to sign up to but as I am in the ...
I have had an account on FriendFeed for a couple of weeks now but haven't used it other than linking it to the various accounts I have around the web, that was until a couple of days ago. I decided to start following people as I have done on Twitter ...
I was using Digsby to chat to a friend on Facebook this evening and at the same time as using the desktop client the web based chat application on Facebook's site was open as well, this was when I noticed a strange inconsistency.
Firstly one of the messages I received was missing a ...
Yesterday I came across an event Google are holding called Google I/O, this is a 2 day event for developers in San Francisco. It covers several topics including Googles OpenSocial, Maps and Mobile services as well as general AJAX technology. I have used Google Maps a couple of imes in ...
There seem to be a huge number of social networks around today, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo! Mash, Orkut, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Flickr, just the few I could remember while writing this. There are probably as many desktop clients and aggregation sites for these services, things designed to make your life easier ...
OpenID is an interesting idea, one that has the potential to solve one of the most annoying issues of today's websites, multiple accounts.
I like to try out lots of the new websites and services that keep appearing and the first thing I have to do with almost all of them is to ...
I have a number of computers which run various things such as email, websites (including this one), databases and a telephone system, these computers are kept in a secure room with very poor ventilation so every year when summer roles around I start to panic as the temperature starts of pass ...
A couple of weeks ago I came across a trailer for an up and coming show called Viralcom (embedded below).
The series follows Viralcom and takes you behind the scenes to see how all the classic YouTube videos are made, or would be made if a large organisation was behind them.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-mdz1hqAs]
A new ...
