Ben Werdmuller

Month: November 2010

  • An Android update

    Following my less-than-stellar reviews of my Android-based HTC Desire, I thought it was only right to follow up. This weekend, O2 finally sent an over-the-air update, which brought me in line with the rest of the Android world – and what a difference it made. In short: Android 2.2 rocks. My phone’s battery life has […]

  • Keeping the web decentralized

    Tim Berners-Lee has an article in December’s Scientific American about the future of the web. It serves, in many ways, as a list of baselines – things that should be obvious to anyone who’s worked with the web for any real length of time. He argues for net neutrality, for open standards, and for the […]

  • Creating a British Silicon Valley

    I wrote a piece on David Cameron’s proposed East London tech city for Imperica: There is a simple difference between the business cultures in London and San Francisco. The former provides the infrastructure to create enterprise from technical innovations; the latter provides the infrastructure for technical innovators to create enterprise, of course for this is […]

  • Hannah’s album, and why Bandcamp is awesome

    Hannah, my sister, set up shop on Bandcamp this afternoon in order to sell her album, Pre-Apocalyptic Love Song. I set up hannahwerdmuller.com for her and put together a simple header graphic based on something she drew a while ago – and in the process, totally fell in love with Bandcamp. This is how a […]