Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Twitter: lessons on getting your web app out there

    Twitter is the darling of the tech scene, much as Facebook was a couple of years ago and Flickr and MySpace before that. Many would probably argue that it’s had more attention than it deserves: all it does is let you post, share and read 140-character messages. Despite this, there’s been more talk about why […]

  • Announcing two new projects

    I’ve been off the radar for the past two weeks, taking some time out to develop some ideas (as well as take a week’s holiday in Rome, which is a beautiful city that I highly recommend visiting). Now, though, I’m back to work, and firing full steam ahead on two new projects: OutMap OutMap is […]

  • End of an era, start of a new one

    Update: Interested in what I’m doing now? Check out my about page. I have a major announcement to make: I co-founded Elgg with Dave Tosh five years ago, and it’s been a heck of a ride. I’ve been immensely proud of what we’ve been able to achieve, not least establishing the most popular open source […]

  • There shouldn’t need to be an OpenStreetMap

    OpenStreetMap is a project whose aim is to make a free map of the world. It’s extremely impressive: as well as searching the map in a normal way, the data is exportable via XML, PNG, JPEG, SVG and more, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. But it shouldn’t need to exist. In the US, […]