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BBPress Released

Posted on October 14th, 2006 by Rich

In a market where BB software is two-a-penny (or cheaper, given the open-source nature of most good software) what’s BBPress got that made me use it?

Google Blog Search

Posted on September 14th, 2005 by Rich

Google launched what appears to be an early beta of it’s Blog Search today. It has one Killer feature, and some noteworthy mentionables.

Browser Forensics

Posted on September 1st, 2005 by Rich

I just read the most wonderful news article ever: it’s about Web Browsers, and Forensic Science. It’s wonderful for two reasons: it gets the whole “telling a story” thing wrong by totally misinterpreting the status quo and being technically confused, then it gives an example that is so under-inspired that I had to come [...]

The Spaghetti Code

Posted on August 30th, 2005 by Rich

The worlds best selling book (after the main religious core texts) is the Da Vinci Code, which describes a hypothetical trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. Clues that are visible to all, but disguised.

Installing Google Talk

Posted on August 24th, 2005 by Rich

Google Talk enters it’s beta phase today. It’s an instant messaging and Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP) application. The burning question is, of course, can it be a replacement for other instant messaging clients?

BBC Viral Marketing

Posted on August 15th, 2005 by Rich

Earlier today there was a story on BoingBoing (and then naturally, on Slashdot) surrounding what appeared to be a viral marketing campaign started by the BBC.

Not a new data model for the web

Posted on July 27th, 2005 by Rich

I think the recent presentation by Adam Bosworth at the MySQL User’s Conference has been a little over-interpreted. It’s certainly interesting and presents some useful perspectives, but it’s not the “seminal lecture” that today’s slashdot story describes.

Advert Blocking: Slashdot’s financial problem

Posted on July 16th, 2005 by Rich

Yesterday’s short article on electronic wallpaper has been visited quite a lot by the readers of Slashdot. Slashdot is an online forum/magazine and is one of the busiest websites in the world, currently ranked #35 by netcraft. Consequentially yesterday was the busiest day ever for this site.

Instant Home Redecoration with Electronic Paper

Posted on July 15th, 2005 by Rich

Fujitsu have been demonstrating what they hope is a mass-producable system that could make colour electronic paper a reality.