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I'm sometimes surprised by how easy it actually is to get on the Internet. Dave and I are both in transit, but I spoke to him on MSN chat as he sat on the train. Meanwhile, I'm on the Oxford Tube coach to London, with rolling
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/10/05/youtube-is-wildly-popular/ HipMojo is running a compelling argument that YouTube isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Despite numerous naysayers, and various threats from the media industry, sites like YouTube are the beginning of a giant sea change in media. Combine it with TiVo and other
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/30/webcameron/ As much as Conservative Party leader David Cameron gives me shivers up my spine and makes my hair stand on end, I think his latest venture will probably work well for him. Webcameron is a series of video blogs that are just unblatantly
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/29/the-challenge-of-multiple-contexts/ danah boyd has this to say about Facebook’s recent opening to the general public: MySpace allegedly has something like 100 million users (although there has recently been controversy about this and other user figures). How on earth do you sort through that
Boy, building out a fully-featured online service turns out to be a lot of hard work, even on top of the two and a half years we've already put into Elgg. Frankly, it's taken longer than we thought to get everything in place. But we'
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/28/ in-search-of-the-valley-some-prominent-internet-people/ Steve O’Hear emailed us earlier today to let us know that his movie, In Search of the Valley, has just been released on DVD. From the write-up on Read/Write Web: I have my own opinions about the people involved, largely obtained
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In the Silicon Valley Web 2.0 scene, they host wild and raucous tech parties where Kevin Rose signs people's chests and the cocktails flow all night long. Everyone gets a free T-shirt and somewhere, a Valleywag hack is on hand to post incriminating photos to Flickr. In
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/26/apparently-the-mobile-shake-up-has-started/ According to the BBC, “the mobile web is about to receive the biggest shake-up in years with the start of open registration for mobile phone-specific website addresses. The .mobi top level domain is intended for sites catering to mobile phone users.” There are
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NetworkWorld's 2006 Vendors to the All-Stars list features IBM, Cisco, Citrix Systems, Dell ... and Elgg. Jim Klein's Saugus Union School District installation of Elgg made the list: The district receives a 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award for creating this social network, an easy-to-use, technology-rich environment for more
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Ahoy! Some of ye scurvy sea dogs may be wondering what lurks on ye horizon in Elgg World. Ye may have seen Skipper Dave's announcement of ye dashboard, which is making us dance ye hornpipe up on ye deck, but there be plenty more treasure in ye Elgg
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/17/lonelygirl15/ I can’t get over the Lonelygirl15 phenomenon, which particularly over the past week or so has been exploding. We now know that the actress involved is Jessica Rose, and that LG15 is a show related to some kind of Internet service. It’
I'm a little late on linking to this due to spending a little while on the road, but on Friday I spoke to Leon Cych over the phone for half an hour or so. It was a little early in the morning, so please excuse my waffling for