I’ve taken an interest in the concept of Squidoo. It’s an amalgamation of many of the Net’s newest ideas. Something of a social networking site, a wiki, a blog community…
Users can create a lens, which is a simple web page that discusses one particular topic. And we all know that there are potentially millions of [...]

An article on Slashdot about some graphics-pen based desktop software called ‘BumpTop’ started me thinking again about interface design (see ‘Welcome to Userville’). But then my thinking started to run ‘well I wrote that post about software design, better think of something else’. I had to think outside the box - literally.
Because outside the software-displaying [...]

Many Internet users and even some web developers are still choosing to ignore the fact that there are more browsers available than just Internet Explorer.
The Opera team has quietly built a name for itself and the new browser Opera 9 is now available to download. Savvy Internet users have given Firefox a go and the [...]

So the ‘Google Generation’ (delightful, young people are once again defined by a multinational corporation) are all unabashed plagiarists. Stupid kids! Everybody knows the point of formal education is to learn how to conceal your sources correctly. From high within her ivory tower at Leeds Met University, plagiarism expert Professor Sally Brown is telling us [...]

The potency of word of mouth advertising on the Internet is not new, but often for the mainstream to take the shift online seriously, they require a traditional giant to coerce them.
That’s why Proctor & Gamble’s announcing of the Internet as an emerging platform for brand building (outside of the regular banner ads and seo) [...]

My immediate thoughts on the rebirth of Netscape are that AOL are joining a selection of content providers appealing to the lethargic nature of Internet users.
I can see Netscape appealing heavily to those who are not web savvy enough to download a comprehensive aggregator and choose their own RSS feeds.
But RSS is a bigger issue [...]

There’s a story going around that Starfish have incredible regenerative powers. So much so that when they lose a leg (or a ray) they grow one back. This may not seem that incredible – after all lizards can grow tails back and there are many other similar accounts in the animal kingdom. What is impressive [...]

What’s the best thing that Google’s ever done? Adwords, that’s pretty clever if you’re a businessy type. Analytics, that’s pretty cool if you’re a webmastery type. The search engine itself, that’s pretty fantastic if you’re any type at all (unless you’re in China).
But all that stuff is secondary in my mind to Google’s towering achievement [...]

In a radio interview last week, Lawrence Jones was asked to explain what an Internet Service Provider does. Following Lawrence’s answer, Phil Wood, the host said - “so you basically run the Internet” and Lawrence’s response was “I guess so, personally we just have a small chunk of it.”
And in one sense this is true [...]

I recently moved home and found myself without a toaster, without an ironing board, without a bookcase and - most irritatingly of all - without a net connection. How on earth would I survive?
Reasonably easily, as it turned out. In fact for a while I got used to being netless, just like the protagonist of [...]