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.

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.

Codecademy - learning cloud, on the cloud

I recently bumped into codecademy - a perfect example of how advancing technology is a self-replicating process.

The home page, containing a short introductory lesson