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Webby's World

http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/

For a nerd, by a nerd. Technology, internet, computer and blah!

• Added on: Jun 26th, 2005
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Listed in: Computers Software Internet
• Tags: Software internet technology Web 2.0 Wiki misc.

Recent Posts

• Why is OpenID not more popular?

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 17:24 in internet, Web 2.0, open source, OpenId, authorisation, oauth, facebook connect

  Something I love is OpenID. I love having a portable online identity, not being tied to an email provider or something like Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth. Better yet, I don’t have to rely on someone else keeping their servers up – I c...

• Software pricing: finally becoming reasonable?

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 15:31 in Software, apple, Microsoft, adobe, piracy

  When OS X Leopard was released, my Mac was fortunately new enough to qualify for a special £5 upgrade, but the vast majority of users had to pay about $129. Snow Leopard was different; for an upgrade, Apple only charged about $30 (£25). £25 for a ...

• Why aren’t social networks co-operatives?

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 18:55 in internet, myspace, social networking, community, economics, democracy, social networks, facebook, online community, misc., co-op, cooperative

  The primary aim of a social networking site should be to satisfy of its members. Members do not control such sites; their wants are often slow to be fulfilled or unpopular features introduced. Facebook fails to have a network for my urban area. If I ...

• Living off a smartphone

  Posted on Friday July 31st, 2009 at 13:04 in technology, Mobile, social networking, iphone, mobile phone, mobile technology, smartphone, smartphones

  I have been without my MacBook Pro for nearly a fortnight, following the failure of its graphics card. Whilst I am assured by an Apple Authorised Service Point that it is on its way back to me, I have found it fascinating that for 75% of my usual com...

• Police: we can’t tell you what operating system we use

  Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 15:36 in politics, technology, Liverpool, Computers, Police, Microsoft, open source, merseyside, foia, foi, freedom of information, merseyside police

  I have been reading Freedom of Information Act requests recently and I came across one filed to Merseyside Police, in February 2007, that I had to share. I apologise if someone has already reported this; I found the information in the public domain a...

• Keep a comment blog with Amplify

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 15:20 in internet, blogging, Web 2.0, blogs, social networking, social bookmarking, del.icio.us, social networks, twitter, bookmarking, clipmarks, amplify

  A few weeks ago, Eric Goldstein, CEO of Clipmarks, invited me to his new website: Amplify. Amplify allows users to share clippings (like excerpts of text or images) much like Clipmarks, but encourages its users to comment on it and then the combined ...

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