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  • Twitter-related domain names for sale

    I’m putting some domain names up for sale, including twitapps.com/net/org, and several others that are ideal for Twitter-related services, or whatever. For more info please see the blog post over on 3ft9.com.

    Jul 6th, 2010 | Filed under Misc, Technology
  • The importance of nice URLs

    I saw the following post on Facebook the other day and it really demonstrates how important it is to stick to standards on the web, and that nice URLs are far more user friendly. Which of those links would you click on? If you chose the first you wouldn’t have hit the page The Boileroom [...]

    Jun 25th, 2010 | Filed under Grr, Technology
  • TweetMeme Live Test Video from April 2009

    The other day I was continuing my long-term quest to sort through all the flotsam and jetsam of accumulated crap on my hard drive when I came across the following video (click through if you don’t see the video below). Recorded in April 2009, it shows the first version of the TweetMeme Live functionality without [...]

    Feb 19th, 2010 | Filed under Cool, Projects, Technology
  • Goals for 2010

    I’ve put a post up on my personal blog detailing my goals for 2010 and this post will expand on some of the ideas I’ve had for the work goal. The core of the goal is to create more freedom. Freedom to do what I want to do. Freedom to work when and how I [...]

    Jan 15th, 2010 | Filed under Photography, Projects, Technology
  • Facebook gets something right

    A new phishing attack against Facebook has surfaced recently using the domain fbaction.net. Whenever I see these things I always reset my browser and try signing in with fake details to see what happens. In this case I got a nice surprise. When I got redirected to Facebook I got this…

    Apr 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
  • Regional Limitations

    It’s 5am and I can’t sleep. When this happens I usually fire up Boxee and find something to watch, so that’s what I did. I was happy to see that since the last time I used it Boxee appear to have added a bunch more internet sources, which is great. However, the following 15 minutes [...]

    Apr 13th, 2009 | Filed under Grr, Technology
  • OAuth and Twitter: Realistic expectations

    Twitter promised OAuth support a l-o-o-ong time ago, and it would appear to finally be here. Alex Payne sent a “Call for OAuth beta participants” to the developers list yesterday and had an overwhelming response. This predictably triggered a deluge of tweets and blog posts, but the one that caught my eye was on ReadWriteWeb [...]

    Jan 24th, 2009 | Filed under Grr, Technology
  • Recent ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter

    Over the weekend I wrote a script to post new ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter. For me this was primarily a technology experiment but it may prove useful to someone so I thought I’d let everyone know about it. Follow @ukfreeads to get the ads in your timeline. You can also see the 100 [...]

    Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Technology
  • Is it harder to create usable digital interfaces?

    While catching up on Twitter this morning I came across a blog post by David Cushman on the simplicity of riding a bicycle compared to using ebay or iTunes. I kinda see what he’s saying, but as he points out I think it has more to do with what people are used to. His daughter [...]

    Apr 13th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
  • BigDog … WOW!

    This thing is freaking amazing. Some serious maths going on in there!

    Mar 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Technology
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