Monthly Archives: June 2007

Web 2.0 domain name generator – now with added availability checking!

June 22, 2007 – 11:44 am

This is hilarious. The usual silly web 2.0 domain name generator (MyFuzz, SuperNet, Likr, etc. etc.), but this checks to see if the domain name is registered. So far all my attempts to find a cool new domain name have been in vain… these are all already registered (amazingly): brainbuzz.com yado.com centijo.com skamm.com Well done [...]

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Mashup* June – Location-based services

June 21, 2007 – 5:36 pm

I went to the Mashup* event for this month, all about location-based services. There was a team from TeleAtlas giving a talk, a lively panel debate and then some networking fuelled by a free bar. Location-based services (LBS) are clearly broken down into the spam-type services that you might encounter walking past a Starbucks and [...]

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The Cluetrain Manifesto

June 21, 2007 – 4:25 pm

I’ve just finished reading The Cluetrain Manifesto, which dates back to 2000 and the website to ’99. It was written as a response to perceived changes in the way that business-as-usual operates, thanks to the influence of the Internet. It’s all about conversations. The Internet is one big conversation. Basically, this book outlines, in a [...]

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SynthaSite Tech Preview (and a bit about widget superstores)

June 20, 2007 – 11:59 am

I was directed by Ryan Gahl’s recent post to the SynthaSite Tech Preview. This is an online webpage creator which, as Read/Write Web points out, is no Dreamweaver killer as yet. That article is worth a read for some critique of their ability as an in-browser editor, which is really pretty slick, and their roadmap, [...]

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Sucked in by Google Reader

June 20, 2007 – 10:32 am

I made the move over to Google Reader this morning after spending six months as a die-hard Netvibes fan. I have mixed feelings about this, because I admire Netvibes for what they are trying to do, but I harbour the feeling that the window interface is a little too clunky for me. As I am [...]

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Nerve centre, v0.0.0.1

June 20, 2007 – 1:02 am

I jacked in my proposed work schedule today and spent the day working with Simon McManus to create a prototype of the mashup nervous system I’ve been blabbing on about. Just to recap, I think that mashups need to be able to function without your involvement and respond to stimuli. I believe that to make [...]

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Facebook fever

June 18, 2007 – 11:41 pm

Er… Is it just me, or is anyone else slightly scared that their nice, neat Facebook universe is about to explode into a Big Bang of application births. I mean, I’m all for the open platform thing, in principle, but now that I am being asked to add an increasing amount of applications on a [...]

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First look at TiddlyWiki

June 14, 2007 – 8:51 pm

I’ve started to work with our new hire at BT, Jeremy Ruston, hence the sudden upturn in the amount that I’m actually making the time to play with technology instead of just talk about it. Jeremy has come over to BT to setup what I’m thinking of as “Open Source Centres”. I’ll definitely be talking [...]

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Dapp crap – Google notebook / RSS update

June 14, 2007 – 5:55 pm

Agh. So this is the most unelegant thing, but I have an RSS feed of my Google notebook: http://tinyurl.com/2t8wbx This involves two dapps and a custom xslt transform. Here’s how it works: The first Dapp turns the Google notebook into XML A hapispace page turns this XML into title/post pairs The second Dapp turns this [...]

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Getting Google notes onto my blog

June 14, 2007 – 4:16 pm

I’ve just started using Google Notepad and I think it’s great, but I wish it had a “Post to Blog” option. I’m trying to use various services to make this happen anyway, and it’s a first example of creating a mashup that does some monitoring when I’m not there to tend to it – a [...]

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