Archive For The “Internet” Category
There comes a time when resistance is futile, and when that time comes, the smart operator holds his or her hands up and admits it. Now, I’ve always been a PC user and Android is my preferred platform for mobile phone, but in the iPad, Apple have produced a gadget that has my attention. Derided [...]
‘The Iraq War: Wikipedia Historiography’ by STML (CC licence: BY-NC-SA)This set of books, a 12-volume collection of some 7,000 pages, was recently created by publisher/author James Bridle. An artefact for our times, it contains every edit and version o…
Keith’s mum says if she wants Tweets she’ll feed the budgie, but that’s another story. It was clunky, slow and in the end HTC couldn’t be bothered to maintain it when Twitter remodelled their authentication module. Quite why this was allowed to happen when HTC are positioning themselves and the Android platform as a serious [...]
Early adopters of technology must sometimes feel like hamsters, interminably stuck in the exercise wheel. Yesterday evening, having nothing much better to do, I decided to upgrade my HTC Hero to a newer version of the Android OS, my transparently ridiculous excuse being that location awareness in Twitter posts is obviously something I can’t live [...]
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.A nicely produced little video here that gives some idea of the scale of the Internet, at least in terms of social network users last year. Attractive use of colours, fonts and images too, I thought.
This year has provided, as the chinese say, interesting times so far and it is with a sense of some relief that I turn my attention away from fulminating against the dumbing down of television, the sheer existential horror of living in a country governed by a thin lipped Etonian with a letterbox mouth and [...]
The retail business in the internet era is a very different beast from the model that was pioneered by the likes of IKEA in the 1980′s. A measure of just how different can be drawn from a number of organisations in broadly similar businesses that have leveraged internet technology to offer customers an improved service. [...]
This review was initially slated to appear online at the beginning of the year. Other commitments got in the way and it got pushed back. I later started writing it for my general blog ‘Postings From An Edge’, but ended … Continue reading →
