Month: November 2006

For the last couple of days I’ve been playing with two things: An API to allow you to use external file services with your Elgg site Amazon’s Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 is a simple grid storage service with REST and SOAP interfaces. Essentially it means that you don’t need to worry about hard disk […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/audition-for-big-brother-via-a-social-network/ Channel 4’s digital entertainment channel E4 will shortly have its website revamped as a social network. Rather than sift through audition tapes, submissions for the next freakfest series of Big Brother will be via a Youtube-style community video service; presumably they will also find other ways to link their programming output – Russell Brand, […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/bittorrent-bram-cohen-and-me/ BitTorrent has raised $25 million dollars and lost its founder. Bram Cohen is the guy who developed the protocol, the software and the company, yet they’ve found themselves looking for a new CEO. Comments in the TechCrunch article suggest that it may have been a clash of principles. What we can’t understand is: presumably […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/opera-mini-targets-social-networking-users/ I’m a several-times-a-day Opera Mini user (it works much better on my Nokia than either the built-in browser or other downloadable options), so I was delighted to see Mashable’s post on version 3. This one emphasises social networking users and more, including a built-in RSS reader. Want to easily keep track of the latest […]