Cocodot- the best of both worlds

Over the last few years, letters (remember, those pieces of paper that come through a rectangular hole in your front door) have become almost extinct, due to the comprehensively better email - the only times I've ever considered using letter mail is for inviting friends to formal or extremely special occasions. Cocodot, therefore, knocks the final nail into the letter's envelope coffin.

Frustration - why Chrome OS will always be so close, yet so far

As much as I hate to admit it, I'm doing more and more in a web browser these days. I create documents and pictures on a website, I check my email account via the gmail website, I connect with people via social networks (I rarely text) and I'm certainly not likely to stop that any time soon.

Big Brother is Watching You - as predicted by Sam Seaborn

I was just watching an ancient episode of the West Wing (for WW fans, it's when they decide to nominate Mendoza for the supreme court instead of the crazy anti-privacy guy), and the climax is a moving speech about how the next century is going to be all about privacy as the internet develops.

Standardised everything

In my post a few days back I mentioned the beauty of standardisation - in that case in terms of feed reading. Today I'm going into more detail about its importance - with specific reference to Disqus and the idea of a universal comment community.

The Khan Academy - an powerful online school

If you want to learn on line, there's a sea of material - Wikipedia, video tutorials, university lecturers' notes, and even the odd home-made page by page tutorial (the ones with the sickly single colour background and nothing but Times New Roman text with a few links to other pages). But one resource sticks out from the rest: the Khan Academy, an online school of maths, science and humanities with a 'knowledge map' for each subject.

Mould your own web with Dapper

One of the key tools for the development of the web is standardisation. Humans can recognise a calendar or a news feed instantly, but computers are (apologies for the cliché) dumb. By standardising the format of a calendar (.ics) or a feed (.rss) we enable computers to understand what's going on and grab the info we need, and use it.

The calm after the storm - what's wrong with Google+?

One word best describes Google in my mind: Behemoth.
But describing Google+ - the internet giant's new social networking service - is a different story. At the moment, coming from a keen user of g+, the word that springs to mind is quiet.