Is Lloyd the first person use the word “pingosphere”? I’ve never seen it before. Oh wait, Google has one previous usage. Does anyone else just think of penguins when they read it?
Tag: web
Ajax vs Altas
It’s like some kind of battle of Greek (or is it Roman?) heroes. David Heinemeier Hansson is less than complimentary about Microsoft’s new Javascript framework, Atlas.
Public Unaware of RSS
It’s good to see something like this every once in a while. It’s easy to sit there in a little geek cocoon and assume that everyone out there on the interweb is using all the same time-saving tools as you are. But as this article from The Register shows, that’s often not the case. It… Continue reading Public Unaware of RSS
Rojo.com – How Not To Send Email
Rojo is an RSS reader. I tried it out for a week or so last year, but soon decided that I still prefered Bloglines and forgot about Rojo. That is, I forgot about them until a couple of weeks ago. Then I got an email from them. They had decided that they would start to… Continue reading Rojo.com – How Not To Send Email
The Internet is 10
The internet is 10 this week. Well, no, of course it isn’t. It’s been around in some form or another since 1969. But a leader in today’s Guardian says that this week is being celebrated as the tenth anniversary of the internet as a mass phenomenon – and I can’t really argue with that. Interestingly,… Continue reading The Internet is 10
Dave’s First Law of Information
I’m proposing a new law which I’m calling “Dave’s First Law of Information”. It goes like this: Information expands to more than fill the amount of time allocated to deal with it A few years ago I had a small number of web sites that I’d visit regularly in order to keep up to date… Continue reading Dave’s First Law of Information
New Social Networking Site
O’Reilly have launched their new social networking site Connection. I seem to spend a lot of my time recreating my social network on whatever is the current trendy social networking site. In the last couple of years I’ve been on Ecademy, Orkut, Friendster, LinkedIn and probably a few more that I’ve forgotten. Anyway, I’ve signed… Continue reading New Social Networking Site
Bad People
The people running Eyeconomy are bad people. They encourage people who have web sites to use bad practices. Take a look of their section on sub-sites. What they so innocuously call “sub-sites” are better known to the rest of the world as “pop-unders” – that is those extra windows that open underneath your existing browser… Continue reading Bad People
Google Moon
It’s nice that Google have set up Google Moon so you can take a closer look at the Apollo landing sites. But have you seen what happens when you zoom right in?
Styling RSS
I’ve just noticed that the BBC have started styling their RSS feeds using XSLT. Take a look at this one for example. It all looks a lot nicer than the raw XML version. I may have to consider doing something similar for my RSS feeds.