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Why Wikipedia isn't always a great research tool.
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Switching
Google are paying $1 for every user switched to Firefox from Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why would they do this? Any web developer will tell you - IE is buggy, standards-incompliant, sometimes radically different from version to version and ultimately, frankly, a pain in the bum. The linked page isn'
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Mailing list
We're looking to start a development open-access mailing list. Can anyone recommend / offer reliable hosting? We're open to commercial services, university-affiliated servers, as long as it's going to stick around for a while.
Mainstream and then some
The Playstation Portable is now a fully capable podcasting client. A host of big players seem to be getting into podcasting at the ground level - right now it's basically a hack that sits on top of weblog technology, but where will it be in five years? This
RSS feeds in mail clients
I think, before too long, RSS feeds aggregated like this will be common practice. Users are all familiar with email, and placing the aggregator in a message-based context actually provides new functionality for content providers too - they can save bandwidth by letting people pull in the new content they&
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Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is out - I upgraded this morning and haven't found any problems. The thing is, I haven't found any exciting new features either; there's an easy-to-find "delete all private data" button that would be useful were I to
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Drink, karaoke, disorder
In other news, English alcohol licensing laws change today, which means pubs and clubs can open much later (morbidly enough, on the same day George Best is going to die from alcohol abuse). I happen to live three houses down from a drinking establishment of less than shining repute; I&
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Integration and interoperability
Lately - every since the ePlugfest in Cambridge last month, in fact - I've been thinking about standards and interoperability between web applications. The ideal is that Elgg, Moodle, Gmail, 43things, Upcoming, Match, your university's intranet portal, LUSID and Microsoft Outlook can all interact with each
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SSE
I think it was Misja who pointed me towards Microsoft's Simple Sharing Extensions draft. SSE provides a minimal XML data structure to allow better collaboration using RSS and OPML feeds - e.g. using RSS to synchronise events between two calendar systems. This possibly represents a bit of
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I'm finding myself trapped by a problem that's often been expressed to me in the past - who can you legitimately call a 'contact'? On a system like Elgg I'm happy to add anyone I'm interested in, but LinkedIn'
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The Internet Is People
As Dave will confirm, before we embarked upon Elgg I had an idea for a book called The Internet is People about running a web business. The thesis was that the only web businesses that would ever succeed were ones that looked at the Internet as a collection of people
Sharing your reflections to a wider world
I was lucky enough today to meet Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Odeo, the podcasting creation service and directory. Podcasting is much more than downloadable radio over the Internet, although it does that very well; Evan has a vision that encompasses personal reflection, collaboration, voicemail-like services and more.