Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • The brands I care about are all yelling at me

    Update: If you enjoyed this article, you should vote for this SXSW 2013 panel. It should be a thought-provoking conversation. Skype, a few weeks ago: “You should think of Conversation Ads as a way for Skype to generate fun interactivity between your circle of friends and family and the brands you care about. Ultimately, we […]

  • .clusterfuck

    Amazon has bid for .book and .author. Google has bid for .app and .love. Microsoft has bid for .docs and .live. American Express has bid for .open. Opening the top-level domain system is a great idea. There are just 22 generic top-level domains right now – .com, .org, .net and so on. (There are 280 […]

  • Off the hooks: user-centered development in a mobile-first world

    The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop isn’t enough. For the last few years, I’ve been working on latakoo, a service that lets you share […]

  • Is TV about to implode?

    Rick McCallum is quoted as saying something very interesting in this io9 spoilers roundup (about why the new Star Wars TV show hasn’t been made yet): The episodes are too expensive and … well, we’ve got two things going on. Firstly, we’ve got television as we know it about to implode. You’ve got network TV, […]