Ben Werdmuller

Category: Software development

  • 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 […]

  • Launch48 Edinburgh: an inspiring start

    I was invited to attend Launch48 Edinburgh as both a speaker and a mentor, and can’t imagine a more inspiring way to spend a weekend. My talk – on creating a startup from scratch with no budget and a two-person team, and the lessons I’ve taken away from that experience – was recorded, and I’ll […]

  • Two presentations on the web, mobile and the digital divide

    Power couple Bryan and Stephanie Rieger – who also happen to be two of the nicest people you could hope to talk to – have released a couple of presentations on how the web has changed. They are excellent, should be considered required reading in my opinion, and together suggest a sort of manifesto for […]

  • For your consideration at SXSW Interactive

    I’ve submitted a talk for South By Southwest 2011: Building the User-centered Web By establishing a general standard for social application interactions, the services and technologies used to make connections become less relevant; the Internet is people, one big social network, and users no longer have to worry about how they connect. We can all […]