Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Could Lion Server herald a new breed of enterprise apps?

    Together with today’s Mac OS X Lion release, Apple also released a set of server extensions in the App Store for $49. To run Lion Server on your machine, you make sure you’re running Lion (available from the App Store for $29), and then buy the server upgrade. Like all of their new offerings, this […]

  • Patronism and monetizing the social web

    This post is adapted from something I wrote on Google+. There are more comments over there; also see Evan Promodou’s riff on the same idea. Google+’s combination of streams and circles works. So here’s something I’ve been mulling over for a while: I really like Patronism‘s central idea. Rather than buying an album, you subscribe […]

  • Laws, sausages and browser geolocation

    I was emailed a question about the browser geolocation test I wrote a while back, and I thought I’d respond to it here. If you haven’t seen it, go check it out, and come back. If you’re not prepared for it, it’s a creepy little feature. How on earth is browser-based geolocation so accurate? Desktops […]

  • Find me on Google+

    I’ve been posting extensively on Google+ since its launch. Come find me over here!