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Scott Hanselman has a great take on platforms and ownership on the web: * Why doesn't someone make a free or cheap social network for the people? * Why can't I control my content? * Why can't I export everything I've written? [...] You want control?
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Contrary to what you may have heard, the web creates all kinds of new opportunities for artists - as long as they choose to engage with their fans and markets. Making money is about business, after all, but the positive thing about choosing to engage yourself is that you get
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Not only was she named as the new Yahoo! CEO today - but she's also announced that she's expecting her first child. That's up there with Mark Zuckerberg's graduation-IPO-wedding triple whammy earlier this year. At the time of writing, Yahoo! is worth
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Frédéric Filloux has written a great analysis of the Huffington Post's SEO techniques, and is uncompromising about the implications: I’m afraid they are wrong. Lethally so. Frédéric goes into some detail about the way sites like the HuffPo find original journalism and re-wrap it with catchy headlines,
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Update: If you enjoyed this article, you should vote for this SXSW 2013 panel. It should be a thought-provoking conversation. Skype, a few weeks ago: "You should think of Conversation Ads as a way for Skype to generate fun interactivity between your circle of friends and family and the
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Amazon has bid for .book and .author. Google has bid for .app and .love. Microsoft has bid for .docs and .live. American Express has bid for .open. Opening the top-level domain system is a great idea. There are just 22 generic top-level domains right now - .com, .org, .net and
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The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop isn't enough. For the last few years, I've been
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Rick McCallum is quoted as saying something very interesting in this io9 spoilers roundup (about why the new Star Wars TV show hasn't been made yet): The episodes are too expensive and ... well, we've got two things going on. Firstly, we've got television as
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I'm going to be speaking at Over the Air next Saturday, June 2nd, 2012: For two days over 600 mobile developers & designers will be based at Station X, hacking in the shadows of the WWII Enigma & Lorenz code-breakers, and hanging out at the home of Colossus
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... Embed a discussion forum in a blog post? ... Stick games in an RSS feed and have them be playable in Google Reader? ... Post an encyclopedia to Pinterest? ... Bookmark a scene in a video? ... Move my profile to another site or domain name without breaking everything? ... Create a slideshow of newspaper
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At the end of last year, I was asked to contribute my wishlist for Linux on the desktop for an issue of Linux Format magazine. Here's what I submitted: activity stream Then, I want to be able to program against the activity stream, and the activity streams I
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For the past few years, my friend Helen Steer has been working with the Geography Collective on Mission: Explore, a new way to promote exploration and curiosity: Mission:Explore is a game, but not as you know it. There are two aims to the game. One is to collect points