Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • Gender differences on the new frontier

    It’s a commonly accepted fact that computing is a male-dominated industry, but I was shocked by the scale of the inequality. Okay, this is kind of unscientific, but take a look at these statistics: Female population of the world: 49.8% Female population of Facebook: 55% Female population of social networks as a whole: 54.7% Percentage…

  • The mechanics of "open"

    Since we started Elgg, I’ve always kept a very open philosophy about how the software should work. From the human perspective, we wanted it to be as inclusive as possible, with an easy-to-use interface and innards that allowed you to do very technical things (like, in Elgg 0.x, republishing aggregated RSS) with very little knowhow.…

  • Atlas is a different way to develop on the web

    Atlas is a project that attempts to make developing web applications similar to developing on the Mac. (The actual platform is called Cappuccino.) They’ve even created a preprocessor for Javascript, Objective-J, that works in a similar way to the Mac’s Objective-C. 280 Slides, by the same company, can be thought of as a tech demo…

  • Last.fm isn’t selling your data to the RIAA, apparently

    [..] So do us a favour – if you see people spreading the rumour, refer them to this blog post and mention you heard from a friend that “Techcrunch are full of shit.” Last.fm: “Techcrunch are full of shit”. The other day, Techcrunch claimed that the music site Last.fm (which I’m a heavy user of)…