Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Big players are playing with OpenID

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Update: these two blog posts make it seem as if Google's way of doing things are more legit than I thought - bit if that is the case then I have to wonder why there is so little information around about the changes to OpenID. I don't have much time for ...

Google Mobile Advertising

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

As discussed by Rowan Polovin on Tech Leader Google has started advertising their mobile search in some South African newspapers. There isn't really much to say about it except that I find it pretty interesting - also considering the latest ZA Tech Show podcast with the head of Google SA.

How to build a decentralized social network

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I really like OpenID. Not that the opportunity to use it presents itself often enough at this stage - but it is still great. You see the thing I like about OpenID, Jabber, RSS and all the other web standards is that they all present a lot of potential - ...

Keeping it in open

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

All the problems with blogging I talked about in the beginning are returning - and I am working against them, beginning today with another post. Seeing Matthew Buckland's post about decisions being made about their redesign of the Mail & Guardian website reminded me how interesting the whole process has been ...

Google Docs offline: pretty cool

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Google Docs Offline has finally been enabled for me and after 1 minute of trying it out I'm very impressed and I think I may just find myself using the service a lot more. Some thoughts: Formatting needs to improve, as has been said by others Inserting images while offline is needed I ...

Facebook Chat: it’s love & hate

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Right. So yes everybody knows, Facebook Chat has been rolled out to the rest of us not considered worthy of testing it - and it "changes everything". Vincent Mayer sure got that one right - and as everyone is busy explaining your Facebook contacts are different from your normal IM contacts. ...

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