Picking a Platform
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 31st Mar, 2008
Great post on ReadWriteWeb about 5 issues to keep in mind when choosing a web development platform. Regardless of what sort of platform you’re after, these ideas translate well to other technologies also. Here are the things to watch out for:
Reach of the platform - the broader the target market, the more effective the platform [...]
Listening to your market - Zemanta rocks!
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
I had a brilliant consumer moment yesterday. I blogged about a FireFox plugin called Zemanta that sits in your browser and waits for you to work on a blog post. As soon as it spots you’re doing this, it springs into life and stars offering content suggestions; pictures, links etc relating to what you’re typing [...]
Google Gears hits the street
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 31st May, 2007
Google is making a move into the offline application space (you know, traditional Windows applications) by releasing Google Gears, a browser add-on that lets developers take online applications offline. The first app to take advantage of this will be Google Reader giving you the ability to catch up on your feeds and read them offline.
If [...]
Ohh .. Silverlight !
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 16th Apr, 2007
So, has Microsoft finally found the key to breaking up Flash’s dominance of rich web experiences? I sincerely hope so, I’m just allergic to Flash.
Anyway, I’ve come across an exciting post on Tim Sneath’s Blog announcing SilverLight, which is going to be the new name for WPF/E. It’s Microsoft’s play into the cross-browser, cross-platform, rich [...]
Diamonds
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 23rd Mar, 2007
It’s been a few years since we used to see goods on eBay. Back in the day we used to sell joke items and any of the things that we used to sell on the Joke Shop. The biggest problem was that most items were small value and the eBay and PayPal fees were astronomical [...]
iPhone is finally here
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 10th Jan, 2007
So, the iPhone has hit the market and looks like the gadget to have. There has been lots of talk as to what it could look like (check out the iPhone Concept Blog) but we finally get to feast our eyes on the real thing!
So, what does it consist of? Well, it’s:
A widescreen iPod
A [...]
