Giving back to writers on the web
For some time there has been a little browser bookmarklet which goes by the name of Readability, a simple tool which de-clutters web pages by stripping them down to display just the content of the page allowing for distraction-free reading. Early today (UK time) the team at Readability launched the new service which offers a [...]
It’s all coming together… on Twitter
For years, Twitter users have been split between those who predominantly tweet directly through the website and those who choose to use third party applications. As I currently sit amongst the latter group opting to use Tweetie on Mac and Twitter (formally part of the Tweetie app family) on the iPhone, I can only give my opinion on why people choose to do shy away from the web interface.
Privacy arms race is hotting up
You cannot help to notice that privacy is fast becoming one of the hottest subjects in town. Driven, in part, by the social networking revolution every Tom, Dick and Harry are throwing great new applications at us such as Facebook, Gowalla, Google Me (?) with the aim of capturing a large slice of our social [...]
Tactile web?
The absence of many of the senses (touch, smell, taste and largely, hear) when interacting with t’interweb is a challenge that at some point needs addressing if we are to replicate the real world into the virtual world. Lots of studies have shown that these senses greatly influence our decisions and if virtual environments seek [...]
iPhone iOS4 update
Yesterday Apple released their latest iPhone software update. I wasn’t as quick off the mark as some of my friends so this morning I deliberately ignored Twitter and other social media so I could make my own mind up without being influenced. I don’t like doing major iPhone updates as there hasn’t been an update [...]
Moving with the times
Our way of working is far from conventional and with the arrival of the new iPad, our thoughts on how we work are beginning to change further and these thoughts extend out to how we use the web. Mobile browsing has grown fast over the last few years thanks to the wide availability of smartphones [...]
