I was in Venice last week. I’m afraid to say that it looks a bit different. In the middle of the picture above you can just make out the Bridge of Sighs – it’s the thing in the middle that isn’t an advert for a bank. Below is the Museo Correr end of St Mark’s Square. After picking [...]
March 24, 2009
I spent the day today at the Wealth of Networks II conference, the agenda of which was set out as the next-generation of the Internet. It was a good event and the organisers managed to bring together some top-rate speakers in a great venue with rock-solid internet, for once. And it was free – yay for [...]
December 5, 2006
…is Who 2.0. That’s according to an interview with Tim O’Reilly, the man who popularised Web 2.0. On Basque news site eitb24, he said that he thinks: …certain kinds of databases are going to become really big and really useful. We are just in the early stages, digital identity doesn’t really work yet. But that will, [...]
November 1, 2006
Nice interview on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the existence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains: More importantly to Vox, we believe there is very little out [...]
September 29, 2006
I was asked about non-linear search and said I’d give it a go. (The question comes from Simon Collister, who I am sure has a few ideas of his own up his sleeve. But since he wrote a fab post about tagging, which in turn fuelled my own effort on the subject, it’s definitely my turn [...]
August 2, 2006
In what may be a PR masterpiece, the new Yahoo! corporate blog is nothing but self-effacing. My headline is theirs for their virgin entry. “Oh, yes, we’re going corporate. But please don’t hold that against us. It’s a good thing, really,” they go on to say. Signs are that this will be an interesting read. Major [...]
November 27, 2009