On the Yahoo/Bing search deal
Firstly a disclaimer: I know a number of Yahoo!/flickr people, including a few who were previously involved in search. I think the deal was inevitable, and starts to define what Yahoo! actually is. Can...
View ArticleI miss being bored
I’m a victim of CPA. I’m on Twitter. I’m Facebook. I’m still on IRC. I think that clicking “read all” in Google Reader is somehow cheating, so I’m left constantly playing Whack-a-mole on that and my...
View Articlea new look and a (partial) admission of defeat
For years I’ve been talking about my new theme. It was going to be lovely, it was going to use things like JQuery and BlueTrip. It was going to show my technical credentials as understanding HTML,...
View ArticleThe Real Test if Old Spice gets the Internet
Update: Was done with their encouragement. Sure the @oldspice videos have been funny, but if this voicemail generator is not part of the campaign, how they handle it will be the real reflection of how...
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Multicast for File Delivery
James Cridland wrote about how broadcast was a potential way to distribute Lion, the new version of OS X. While digital broadcasting is compelling as a mass-distribution media, the logistics don’t...
View ArticleHashtags as plausible deniability from compliance
Various broadcasters have done “chat around content” applications: the Apprentice and The X-Factor being two examples. These are expensive to run, because the second the content is on bbc.co.uk or...
View ArticleDefinition of Slippery Slope
BT are being forced to block access to a piracy site. This will no doubt use the BT Cleanfeed infrastructure used for the IWF. You either have something clever that proxies everything, or your redirect...
View ArticleOn the Beta BBC Homepage
Standard “I used to work for the BBC” disclaimer applies. Over at beta.bbc.co.uk you can see the new BBC homepage. The BBC have written a few articles about it. My first impression is that this the...
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Is Facebook Open Graph going to enable “proper” social TV
A few months ago I blogged about hashtags, and how they were imperfect but mostly worked… One of my meaningless predictions was that “Services like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ will provide ways to...
View ArticleGoogle makes VM Immortal – but how useful?
Google let you migrate machines between data-centres while they still run While it’s a nice feature, and something that VMWare has been able to do for a while – But I can’t help feeling it’s an...
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