Month: November 2005

As Dave will confirm, before we embarked upon Elgg I had an idea for a book called The Internet is People about running a web business. The thesis was that the only web businesses that would ever succeed were ones that looked at the Internet as a collection of people who wanted to communicate with […]

I was lucky enough today to meet Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Odeo, the podcasting creation service and directory. Podcasting is much more than downloadable radio over the Internet, although it does that very well; Evan has a vision that encompasses personal reflection, collaboration, voicemail-like services and more. Of course, you can create […]

Amazon is trialling tagging to enable users to find resources (in this case, items to buy) using a bottom-up ontology. You can view tags used by people you know, and automatic connections are made, Flickr cluster style, between tags that are commonly used together. From the screenshot above it’s clearly early days yet, but it’s […]

It’s truly the Internet age. If Dave and I are ever feeling homesick for Edinburgh, we can download MP3 tours of the city from the VisitScotland website. Although they’re really intended for people actually walking around with their iPods, I’m sure they’ll work well as reminders for people wishing they were there. The only trouble […]