stuart test blog

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.

Part of my feed reading this morning lead me to sign up with Yahoo! Mail so that I could test out their new beta mail product. So I signed up with a Yahoo! NZ address of stuart.maxwell@yahoo.co.nz but this didn't allow me to switch over to the new beta. I changed my location to UK, […]

I’ve created a new blog where I’ll be sharing my experiences with new, beta software. I’ve just created the first article here: http://beta.amanzi.co.nz/2006/03/04/how-not-to-design-a-webmail-service/

I’ve been getting a few comments on the site recently which I always enjoy. Not all the comments have been positive, but that’s OK – it’s all about engaging conversation. I highly recommend to anyone commenting on this site or any other blogging system to use coComment. It’s a free service that you can use […]

Just read about another new Technorati feature on Robert Scoble’s blog. It’s called Technorati Favourites and it allows you to upload your blogroll into the site and keep tabs on your feeds from there. I’ve added mine already and you can find them here: http://technorati.com/faves/amanzi To add my site to your favourites, just click on […]

I’ve been playing around with a lot of beta software recently – this also includes beta services that are popping up all the time from the new “Web 2.0” companies. I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen so much beta stuff around at once. The word beta used to be reserved for pre-release software […]