Badges not Badgers

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you’ve ever visited a trade show you know how annoying it is to constantly have exhibitors thrusting brochures into your hand as you walk past and finding all new ways to scan the barcode on your badge. I […]

Google - I’m in your start up stealing your ideas

Okay, so where’s the lol cat for Google? I suppose we’ll have to make do with Matt, but really, is Google in your start up stealing your ideas?
They’ve taken over blog search from Technorati, even though their product isn’t as good yet. Even Wordpress has changed the incoming links to Google’s blog search, way to […]

Social Media Bio Version 2.0

Last year Rohit Bhargava blogged about creating a social media bio and then he created one.
His reasoning was
For several months now, I have been struggling with my own social media identity crisis.  It is a crisis that many others will be able to relate to and has mainly to do with the multiple identities I […]

MyDeco - the web meets changing rooms

Being married to an interior architect I’ve suffered long hours of how ‘interior stylists have hi-jacked the term interior design’ how changing rooms made interior design a question of colour and cushions rather than space etc.
So, it is with some trepidation that I mention MyDeco. Mike Butcher has done a very in-depth write up […]

Web Trend Map

A great piece of work by Matt Gerber (Information Architects Japan) to create a map of ‘trends’ for 2008 based on the Tokyo train map, check it out, but make sure you actually download it and take a close look, otherwise it will look just like a list of sites.
The good stuff is in the […]

Social Network Portability Gets Closer

Today Google announced the release of their social graph api.
we crawl the Web to find publicly declared relationships between people’s accounts, just like Google crawls the Web for links between pages. But instead of returning links to HTML documents, the API returns JSON data structures representing the social relationships we discovered from all the XFN […]

Microsoft Yahoo What Else

There has been little else floating around the technosphere this week other than the proposed possible Microsoft purchase of yahoo.
I think Mike A makes the only relevant point for the majority of us today when he writes about Google leaving the closet with a statement.
Google try and pull the David vs Goliath card, even though […]