Jul 05 2007
Cartoonist, Hugh McLeod of gapingvoid nicely sums up the history of most blogs (including mine) in the following cartoon: Now that the whole ‘Web 2.0’ fad is dying down a bit now, I find sites like TechCrunch much less interesting. I’m bored of hearing about all the new startups/mashups/acquisitions/Google-killers/YouTube-killers/<insert well known site name here>-killers.
Jul 11 2006
I came across this link from the GigaOM site this morning with details on Yahoo’s new travel site. I’ve seen a couple of these sites before but as this integrates nicely with my Flickr account, I’m quite looking forward to making use of it on my upcoming trip to London and Amsterdam. So I’ve set […]
Jul 07 2006
Interesting controversy stirring up at the moment is how eBay have banned their sellers from using Google Checkout. Their excuse is that it’s an untested and potentially unsafe product, but Google have a long history of making/receiving payments with their Adsense products and more recently their video portal. Populary opinon is that eBay is afraid […]
Mar 23 2006
Plaxo have made a couple of high visibility blog posts today saying that they are restricting the amount of automatic emails (a.k.a. SPAM) get sent out by users of their service. This seems like a good thing but it’s the way that they went about it that is leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths. […]