http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/youtubes-year/ I love Youtube. The site has become more and more integrated into our culture over the past year. Here are some important moments that might not have reached the international consciousness had the site not existed: Iraqi kid runs for water. Soldiers giving
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/facebook-abuse/ A little while ago I discovered that my Facebook account had been disabled. Logging in with my email address revealed the stark message: Your account has been disabled by an administrator. Please contact info@facebook.com for more information. So far, so unfriendly.
For the last couple of days I've been playing with two things: * An API to allow you to use external file services with your Elgg site * Amazon's Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 is a simple grid storage service with REST and SOAP interfaces. Essentially it means
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/audition-for-big-brother-via-a-social-network/ Channel 4’s digital entertainment channel E4 will shortly have its website revamped as a social network. Rather than sift through audition tapes, submissions for the next freakfest series of Big Brother will be via a Youtube-style community video service; presumably they will
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/bittorrent-bram-cohen-and-me/ BitTorrent has raised $25 million dollars and lost its founder. Bram Cohen is the guy who developed the protocol, the software and the company, yet they’ve found themselves looking for a new CEO. Comments in the TechCrunch article suggest that it may
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/opera-mini-targets-social-networking-users/ I’m a several-times-a-day Opera Mini user (it works much better on my Nokia than either the built-in browser or other downloadable options), so I was delighted to see Mashable’s post on version 3. This one emphasises social networking users and more,
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/28/selling-books-online/ 37 Signals have some social networking inspired ideas for promoting books. One of these is quite smart: However, the article also talks about a mass effort to “hack” the Amazon bestseller list by getting customers to all buy the book at once. This
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Dave and I have been hearing rumours (coming out of JISC) that we're going to commercialise Elgg. We would like to state, for the record, that Elgg will always be free and open source. This is a core component of our ethos and business model, and will never
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/21/silicon-valley-came-to-oxford-oxford-asked-which-school-it-went-to/ Dave Tosh and I attended the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event at Oxford University’s Sa
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When we visited MIT earlier in the year, everybody was surprised to meet us because they somehow assumed from our user icons that we'd be very short. As you can see from this joint video, Dave actually is: {{video:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2959806081722097762&
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One of the best bits of this new office is the extra collaboration I can have with Dave. Traditionally, for most of the time we've been at separate ends of the country: he in Edinburgh, me in Oxford. But now we're at the other end of
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/14/existing-hierarchies-still-exist/ Nicholas Carr says that links aren’t messy anymore: Carr goes on to say that we can no longer say that hierarchies aren’t squashed by linking, citing Doc Searls’s coverage of AOL vice chairman Ted Leonsis’s ability to draw his