Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • 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…

  • Edinburgh Festivals Lab Geek in Residence

    On Wednesday, the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab announced that I’m their inaugural Geek in Residence: This is an exciting and experimental new role in which Ben will work with and across the festival set to spot and develop project opportunities and bring his expertise and experience to explore what it is to be a festival…

  • Facebook location vs the ACLU

    A lot has been said about Facebook’s new location feature, which is available via its iPhone client or HTML5 mobile web app. It’s a shrewd move, to be sure, and by now it’s clear that the company has ambitions to be the next decade’s tech behemoth. While Microsoft has a grip over stand-alone computing, Apple…

  • 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…