Archive for November, 2006
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Net users of the world unite
[As ever, also on the BBC News website, with better pictures…]
Over the last twenty years the global economy has been shaped and reshaped by computers and the growing reach of the internet as a public communications network. Businesses now rely on the net in the way they relied on the telephone back in the 1950’s […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Mao, Stalin… or Tito
My piece on why we need to move beyond Web 2.0 is up on The Register, and makes the argument that
Web 2.0 marks the dictatorship of the presentation layer, a triumph of appearance over architecture that any good computer scientist should immediately dismiss as unsustainable.
Update
Nicholas Carr has picked up on what he calls my ‘fire-breathing […]
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Joining the network world.. at last
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
I’ve got a very nice smartphone, but it’s costing me a fortune because I keep checking my email and looking at websites, and I forget that on the phone I’m paying for every byte that I send or receive.
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Lisp conference.
Registration has just opened for the 2007 International Lisp Conference, which will take place at Clare College, Cambridge, England from 1-4 April, with a day of punting and walking around Cambridge on March 31 to get people into the mood.
My mate Nick Levine is one of the organisers, and I’m going along to report on […]
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
You Only Live Once
[As ever, read this on the BBC News website too]
Not content with occupying vast chunks of the television schedule for weeks at a time Endemol, the company that produces the ‘Big Brother’ reality TV programme, has announced that it will be hosting a special edition of the show inside the Second Life virtual world.
Participants, or […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Where the Web is going
The big hitters were in San Francisco for the latest Web 2.0 bash - though apparently we have to call it a ‘Summit’ these days - to what Nicholas Carr rather gloatingly describes as ‘tepid reviews‘.
Meanwhile I was at Bath University giving a well-received talk to the Computer Science Society, and having a far better […]
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Joining the dots
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
While it is certainly interesting to note that Google’s UK advertising revenue this year is likely to outstrip that of Channel 4 and may soon approach ITV’s, we should not let our reading of these particular runes get out of hand.
Nine hundred million pounds is […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Digital Identity Forum
I was on a panel at the Digital Identity Forum yesterday, organised as usual by David Birch from Consult Hyperion. Much fun was had, and Will Davies gave an excellent talk as usual.
I was more succinct and less interesting - here’s the talk I wrote and, as an experiment, I recorded it and have […]
