Interesting news day
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 8th May, 2008
It’s funny how some days there’s nothing interesting in the news and some days a whole bunch of different things capture your attention. It’s a bit like playing craps in one of these vegas hotels, you never know what you’re going to get! So, here’s what I found interesting:
Specs of Facebook’s Profile Redesign - interesting [...]
Technorati and the Wind of Change
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 11th Sep, 2007
Technorati’s home page looks very different today and it’s thanks to the introduction of Technorati Topics. (On a sideline, the search is still pretty messed up, try running a lawyer search or blogger search and you’ll see what I mean). The new? functionality is described in more detail on the Technorati blog:
Each topic features blog [...]
Let the News Makers comment!
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 8th Aug, 2007
Interesting story doing the rounds today about how Google News lets relevant people add comments to it’s news articles. The keyword here is “relevant”, in that they don’t let the unwashed masses comment, but instead people or organisations connected to the story can add their comments by sending an email to Google. The emails are [...]
Fynoderee
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th Feb, 2007
I’ve been reading a book by a local author called Fynoderee. It’s fiction based on Manx legend full of mythical creatures, including fairies, bugganes and of course fynoderees. I found out today that Waterstones is carrying the book in 50 stores across the UK which is excellent news for Alex, the author. Good to know [...]
£100,000 for game winner
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 9th Feb, 2007
Intereting post on the BBC about Perplex City, an alternate reality game (ARG) which has just been completed, netting the winner a £100,000 prize pot. The game started in April 2005 and has had a myriad a clues to the solution, including puzzle card, a banner plane flown across Manchester, a scavenger hunt across London, [...]
Gadgets as tyrants
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 19th Jan, 2007
Interesting article on the New York Times which talks about the emerging trends in gadgets today in that they focus predominantly on limiting users’ choice and flexibility. If you look at DVDs for example, they are more difficult to copy than videos. New media like HD-DVD or Blu-Ray make it even harder for users to [...]
