Recent Posts- Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions June 27, 2010Plug-ins, add-ons, extensions – every desktop browser supports them: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. Third party developers can easily add features to these web browsers to enhance our web browsing pleasure. But what about the mobile browser on … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme adds Google Buzz to detect real-time geo-located trends May 23, 2010If you’ve been using Google Buzz on a mobile phone recently, you would know that you can choose between two filters to the real-time stream of content: Social – choose ‘Following’ to filter the stream based on your social graph, … Continue reading → […]
- Social Recommendations For Every Site On The Web April 29, 2010Today Facebook announced that over 50,000 websites have implemented Social Plugins in the first week since their launch. My favorite Social Plugin is ‘Recommendations’ which lists the pages on a site which have enjoyed the most Sharing activity by Facebook … Continue reading → […]
- How to display approximately geo-located Tweets on a map April 17, 2010Most geo mashups such as GeoMeme display Tweets and other geo-located content as points on a map, based on exact latitude/longitude coordinates. Easy. At the inaugural Chirp Conference this week, Twitter released its Places feature which instead allows Tweets to … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme Wins MySpace Developer Challenge March 14, 2010How exciting! My pet project GeoMeme has been awarded ‘Most innovative use of the Real-Time Stream API’ in the MySpace Developer Challenge. The awards were judged by Mike Jones, MySpace’s new Co-President, and Ron Conway, renowned angel investor, and David … Continue reading → […]
- GeoMeme adds MySpace real-time local trends March 3, 2010In other news, GeoMeme now measures real-time local trends based on both MySpace and Twitter content. GeoMeme uses the new Real-Time Stream API from MySpace to tap into the flood of geo-located updates being posted by MySpace users all around … Continue reading → […]
- Mobile awesomeness, innovation and disruption March 3, 2010The good people at MitchelLake recently asked me to write an article about mobile technology. So I created a list of awesomeness, innovation and disruption, including topics such as ‘Mobile is big’, ‘Phones are getting better’, and ‘People pay for … Continue reading → […]
- Murdoch should worry less about the Googlebot and more about social media November 13, 2009I remember in January 2000, old media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was not going to waste his money buying any ‘dotcom’ upstarts. The very next day, AOL bought Time Warner. Not the other way around! Murdoch had apparently failed … Continue reading → […]
- OpenAustralia Hackfest: ‘Mobile + Geo + Social’ slides November 11, 2009I popped into the OpenAustralia Hackfest at the weekend to learn and talk about some of the latest developments in the Gov2.0 revolution. There are now some quite interesting public datasets available, and the developer community is hard at work … Continue reading → […]
- Location-aware mobile web apps using Google Maps v3 + geolocation November 10, 2009When hiring Engineers, I always look for evidence of pet projects, so recently I thought it was fair to create one of my own: GeoMeme, the fun way to measure and share real-time local twitter trends. Visitors to GeoMeme choose … Continue reading → […]
- Social Browsing on your iPhone with Safari Browser Extensions June 27, 2010
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What’s the difference between user generated content and user generated rubbish? Comments please…
Some user generated content (UGC) is genuine, honest, credible, reputable, trustworthy, valuable, quality information. But some is rubbish (let’s call that UGR), including deliberately misleading propaganda, biased blog comments, bogus product reviews, spam, veiled advertising, and bad poetry (or is … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, disqus, ebay, friend connect, intense debate, linkedin, lonely planet, quality, reputation, sezwho, social, techno, tripadvisor, ugc, user generated content
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Social data portability: who benefits?
In 2006, a certain old-media tycoon reportedly asked Mark Zuckerberg, the 20-something founder of Facebook, “how can I build a social network like Facebook?” Zuckerberg replied “You can’t!” What Zuckerberg meant was that Facebook hadn’t set out to ‘build’ a … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook connect, google friend connect, linkedin, myspace, oauth, openid, snapshot, social, techno, twitter
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SearchWiki + OpenSocial = mainstream social search?
Google today launched a rather massive change to its core search product. SearchWiki adds some innocuous buttons to your search results page, enabling Digg -style voting and Friendfeed -style commenting on each result. I think this feature might prove valuable … Continue reading
Speaking in HTTP/1.1
I’m a big fan of Hypertext Transfer Protocol. I am particularly fond of HTTP status codes and the meanings they convey with such concise and precise brevity. I just don’t GET why they are not used more often in natural … Continue reading
Anathem
I’ve just finished Neal Stephenson’s latest epic novel “Anathem”. It might be described as a philosophical techno-adventure comedy with aliens. Highly recommended. Here’s the widget of the book of Stephenson’s exceptional mind… It’s fascinating to trace one of the founding … Continue reading
Xumii @ DEMOfall
We’re going to DEMOfall ’08, how exciting! Stand 61.
World of Spectrum
Recently I was contacted by Gerard Sweeney over at World of Spectrum, the consummate digital museum of all things related to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Gerard was asking if the details on the WoS database about MegaFruit were accurate, including … Continue reading
so how did I get here?
Here’s a video interview recorded a few months ago with Sally and Steve from LaVolta, and brought to you by Viocorp. If I look younger, it’s because it was pre-Xumii! http://play.viostream.com/?play=7EF806B6-EDE1-441D-967B-0D8D20550D22
iphone.hitching.net and m.hitching.net launch
Thanks to the wonderful MoFuse I have been able to launch two mobile websites while sitting in bed tonight; iphone.hitching.net if you are one of the 1,000,000 people who bought a shiny new iPhone 3G over the weekend, and m.hitching.net … Continue reading
Xumii Public Beta
Today Xumii moved out of stealth mode and into public beta, with integration to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Google Chat, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and Flickr on over 100 different devices.
Live video streaming from your mobile phone
qik is live video streaming from your mobile phone; perhaps the next killer mobile app? Certainly the data charges would be near fatal in Australia, at 3Mb per minute for a 320 x 240 x 15 fps stream. Here’s looking … Continue reading
Xumii emerges from Under the Radar
Xumii is unveiled today at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View. “Take all your contacts from your social networks with you — on your phone!” Here’s Jennifer on stage:
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