Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Off the hooks: user-centered development in a mobile-first world

    The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop isn’t enough. For the last few years, I’ve been working on latakoo, a service that lets you share […]

  • Is TV about to implode?

    Rick McCallum is quoted as saying something very interesting in this io9 spoilers roundup (about why the new Star Wars TV show hasn’t been made yet): The episodes are too expensive and … well, we’ve got two things going on. Firstly, we’ve got television as we know it about to implode. You’ve got network TV, […]

  • Over the Air 2012

    I’m going to be speaking at Over the Air next Saturday, June 2nd, 2012: For two days over 600 mobile developers & designers will be based at Station X, hacking in the shadows of the WWII Enigma & Lorenz code-breakers, and hanging out at the home of Colossus the world’s first electronic digital programmable computer. […]

  • Why can’t I …

    … Embed a discussion forum in a blog post? … Stick games in an RSS feed and have them be playable in Google Reader? … Post an encyclopedia to Pinterest? … Bookmark a scene in a video? … Move my profile to another site or domain name without breaking everything? … Create a slideshow of […]