James Clark: XML vs the Web
James Clark:
But this vision seems to have been lost sight of over time to the point where there’s a gulf between the XML community and the broader Web developer community; all the stuff that’s been piled on top of XML, together with the huge advances in the Web world in HTML5, JSON and JavaScript, have [...]
‘Simple Trumps Complete’
Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt on what they A/B test, and what they’ve learned.
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APP OF THE DAY – Spaghetti Marshmallows (Android)
Damn those pesky frogs
Punch “spaghetti marshmallows” into Google and you’ll get a strange bunch of results. A favourite team building exercise, the idea is to build towers using spaghetti and marshmallows. It is popular among corporations and engineers as you’ll need to think, work together and it is great fun, not only for faceless robots [...]
Windows Phone 7 copy/paste functionality coming soon?
Possible Jan 2011 update
Windows Phone 7 copy/paste functionality could coming soon if reports from ChevronWP7 developer, Chris Walsh are anything to go by (ChevronWP7 enables the unblocking of WP7 to allow for experimental applications to be run on the OS, without need of a developer’s account).
The “massive” update from Microsoft, could bring copy/paste functionality, [...]
David Pogue: ‘Lessons Learned in 10 Years on the Tech Beat’
Pogue, looking back on his ten years as the NYT’s tech columnist:
Things don’t replace things; they just splinter. I can’t tell you how exhausting it is to keep hearing pundits say that some product is the “iPhone killer” or the “Kindle killer.” Listen, dudes: the history of consumer tech is branching, not replacing.
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iPhone baby quilt: There’s a nap for that
Cosy time Apple-stylee
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We’re not sure whether to file this one under A for “Awwwww”, or W for “Whaaaaaat?”.
Either way, there’s no arguing that little Gabriel Stein may well be the youngest fanboy in the world.
His iPhone style [...]
Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary
And surveys 2000 people on future of science
The Royal Society, one of the oldest scientific institutions in the world, has recently celebrated its 350th anniversary (its official foundation date being 28 November 1660) and with it has surveyed 2000 people in order to find out their views on the future of science.
The Royal Institution is [...]
UK Broadband: Poor value for money
We’re ranked 24th in the world….oh dear
A report by broadband analyst Point Topic has revealed that Brits are not exactly getting a great deal when it comes to broadband.
The UK is ranked 24th in the world rankings, which works out the value in terms of the cost per Mbps.
The world leader is Hong Kong, who [...]
Best Windows Phone 7 location apps
Marvellous mapping on your Microsoft mobile
Location and navigation have become one of the most fundamental fields for mobile phone apps. We want to know where we are and what’s around us without having to pull some unwieldy paper map out of our pockets, and we want it done quick. Naturally, with a mapping service all [...]
Kim Kardashian getting the Bing hits
Bada, bada, bada, bada….Bing
The web is a glorious thing. It gives us an unprecedented wealth of knowledge, with a vast amount of information available to us at the click of a button, or the stroke of a key.
In seconds, we could be reading Captain Alexander Grant’s memoirs from the Battle of Jutland [...]
