Ben Werdmuller

Month: February 2009

  • Atlas is a different way to develop on the web

    Atlas is a project that attempts to make developing web applications similar to developing on the Mac. (The actual platform is called Cappuccino.) They’ve even created a preprocessor for Javascript, Objective-J, that works in a similar way to the Mac’s Objective-C. 280 Slides, by the same company, can be thought of as a tech demo […]

  • Last.fm isn’t selling your data to the RIAA, apparently

    [..] So do us a favour – if you see people spreading the rumour, refer them to this blog post and mention you heard from a friend that “Techcrunch are full of shit.” Last.fm: “Techcrunch are full of shit”. The other day, Techcrunch claimed that the music site Last.fm (which I’m a heavy user of) […]

  • What Facebook users want

    What Facebook’s Users Want In The Next Terms Of Service. Facebook says it’s got a new Terms of Service in the works, with feedback from its user community in mind. Cue the community coming up with its own Bill of Rights containing things it things Facebook needs to take notice of. Follows on nicely from […]

  • User control on the open web

    Data portability and the open data movement (“the open web” for simplicity’s sake) revolve around the idea that you should be able to take your data from one service to another without restriction, as well as control who gets to see it and how. Very simply, it’s your data, so you should have the ability […]