websites

Places you should visit – or avoid – that I’ve encountered on my travels.

Mar 132008
I've Got a Tiddler

A TiddlyWiki, of course. You can see my very small TiddlyWiki here [no I don't any more] or a more impressive example from Jeremy Ruston, who created the thing, at the main site.
It’s a sort of wiki – but wait, come back! There’s a few interesting differences from the sort of wiki software you might be used to:
(a) the whole …read the rest of this article

Mar 082008
Google = Rubbish (Heh)

So, apparently Internet Explorer 8 is available for download, according to my twitter colleagues and a certain Mister Gates.
But don’t search for ‘ie8′ with Google, because you’ll get this:

 
One half of the screen is a search for news about ie8. The next suggests that I was probably searching for IE7. None of the remaining four links, as I scroll down, …read the rest of this article

Rather Clever

Posted by Ian Delaney at 11:27 am business, websites
Dec 152007
Rather Clever

A very nice website created to promote Orange’s unlimited texts on on one of its tariffs. It goes on forever and is full of fun stuff … geddit?
Created by digital agency Poke, who’ve documented the site here. Apparently, there’s a Christmas version on the way soon.

Why You Can't Buy a Heineken in Second Life

I’ve always been a bit of a sceptic about Second Life (posts passim, and I mean in its utility as a marketing vehicle for brands), and I won’t pretend otherwise despite a day of inspiration and intelligence at the Virtual Worlds Forum. Yes, I now understand a bit more about why brands have been investing in the network and …read the rest of this article

Aug 242007

You’re probably already very familiar with the Ad-Block extension for Firefox.
Now there’s a new kid on the block, Tubestop. Tubestop prevents YouTube’s brand new overlay ads from spoiling your videos. It works by substituting the player on Youtube’s pages (which inserts ads) with the one that appears embedded in web pages (which doesn’t).

Aug 172007
HOW-TO Create an RSS Feed

This is a short guide to creating an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one. I’ve posted it here because I keep forgetting how to do it. Hope it’s useful. NB: it won’t work for sites that require a log-on, such as Facebook groups.
Step One: Problem Pages
I try to remember to visit the site of my old colleagues at …read the rest of this article

Aug 012007
Playing with iPlayer

Somehow, I’m on the beta programme for the BBC iPlayer. I can’t for the life of me remember applying for this, but that’s becoming fairly irrelevant to the truth nowadays. Sadly, there aren’t any invites and so-forth I can offer to readers – this is the BBC, remember. They do things differently there.
It’s reasonably stable, though annoyingly, it works better …read the rest of this article

Jul 042007

I spotted this on netimperative this morning:

Waitrose to embrace social networking with ‘Facebook’ for food
According to reports, supermarket chain Waitrose is planning to add social networking functions to its web site to allow shoppers to swap recipes and chat on message boards.
The retailer wants to encourage the one million people that visit its web site each month to debate topics …read the rest of this article

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