Category: Internet

There’s been a bit of media coverage of a deal that The Times has done with its sister company Sky News, leading to Sky’s news being available on “Times Online TV” a streaming video service available on The Times’ website. Aside from the fact that this is surely not really news – two sister companies…

Mark Cuban’s completely correct in his analysis of YouTube, and why things can’t go on. I know that there’s this DCMS takedown setup, but how can a system that’s chock full of copyright material, and reliant on it for page impressions, not be responsible for itself? It’s really not the same as providing webspace. I’ve…

Amazon has a feature whereby it examines your previous buying record and recommends new products of a similar nature. I’m sure it’s similar to “Customers who viewed this item also viewed” really. Except that today I got the opportunity to buy the new Le Carré novel, The Mission Song for the bargain price of £30!…

When did Google News start analysing my recent Google searches and recommending appropriate news content? Very clever, although this might highlight certain privacy issues. Yes I know that with myself logged into Google it’s tracking my search history, but do I want that in my news?

I was on the tube this morning, and after avoiding a man who threw up in the middle of the carriage, I ended up standing near a guy who was refining a paper copy of his Powerpoint presentation. Closer examination, as I pretended to read my book, revealed that he was giving an i-Level presentation…

Unless I’m missing something, there’s a feature that I’d love Amazon to add to its service. I’d like them to let me know when one of my favourite authors has a new book upcoming. For example, I like John Le Carré’s novels, but if it wasn’t for the fact that I otherwise knew to look…

The new geotagging feature in Flickr is very nice, but it does show up the shortcomings of Yahoo Maps in the UK. The maps really are poor compared with Google Maps. In particular, the whereabouts of railway lines is really off-kilter.

Writely Post This is a bit of test to copy to check that I can send this from Writely. Minutes later… Well that seems to work OK. Lots of ways of getting stuff onto this site now.

Another quick entry to test my so-called tag cloud…

Well after a couple of false starts I think I’ve now got Movable Type version 3.3 (3.32 indeed) working. I had some false starts earlier which gave a “PreSave failed” error. Googling it really didn’t help, and I was flumoxed. But I think that I failed to update a folder since a second reinstall seems…

It’s difficult to explain just how satisfying it is to get 2,800 emails in my inbox down to a slightly more manageable 35.

I noted the other day that the BBC had launched “vodcasts” of some of its news programming including a weekly Newsnight summary. I also mentioned that it was disappointing that the BBC hadn’t made the format available as anything other than an iPod friendly mp4. Well of course mp4 files play on plenty of hardware.…