A friend told me that Chris Moyles on the Radio one breakfast show has a slot now where people phone in and explain who their favourite Barry is.
Now I have a favourite Barry. For a brief period in the early part of the new millenia it was Barry from Resident Evil (mainly because in Res [...]
Google have bought Writely. Or rather they’ve bought the little team of developers that made Writely.
This has actually took me a bit by surprise as I thought that Writely might actually prove to be a better fit for Microsoft funnily enough. The Upstartle team had painstakingly build the Writely product using .NET rather than some [...]
March 15, 2006 – 12:34 pm
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. A place to store your massive pr0n collection. A place for self employed business people to stuff lots of word documents or excel spreadsheets. A place to stuff photos or video.
Much in the same way as physical warehouses are used to house paper archiving now Amazon offer the service to individuals, [...]
March 15, 2006 – 10:10 am
“We just want to get it out there first, and build as large a community as we can,” says Rimer, the venture capitalist. “Then we’ll start talking about business model.”
Well, well. It seems that you can get up to $3M worth of venture capitalist funding based upon not having a business model again. Seems Web [...]
As much as I love the Web we have now I must admit that I get awfully nostalgic about the web of 96-98.
Google was far from the mighty web behemoth that it is today back in 1998.
And Yahoo! was a wee bit more basic back in 1996.
Best one by far though is MSN of 1996. [...]
Having watched Microsoft’s Windows Live service develop I noticed that the interface for the Live portal has altered again. Maybe this is an indication of the coming together of web and desktop interfaces (something quite prevalent in the soon to be released Office 2007).
Pretty as the new UI is I’m concerned that it’s not all [...]
As iTunes hit it’s one billionth download I hit my hundredth. Not many but a landmark for me…
So how big is your ‘Purchased Music’ folder in iTunes?
I didn’t see this Newsnight edition but I wish I had now. Having some legal know-how (I once practice Law as an undergraduate) the distinction beween civil and criminal actions was definitely misinterpreted by the programme.
Inspection of the contents of encrypted data huh? Long live the David and Goliath battle. It’s good a good job [...]