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Archive for April, 2008

The world doesn’t need another Facebook App

Joseph on Apr 30th 2008

OK so it’s been written about by voices more dextrous than mine but I felt I had to have a go. I just wrote my paltry list of “friends” that I would prefer it if they did not send me any more invites to bite their Zombie’s Friends character, or tend their Lil’ Green Patch [...]

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The invisible mayor

Joseph on Apr 24th 2008

For those of you not in London, there is a very heated mayoral election campaign on at the moment, of comparable intensity to the current US Democratic party campaign. For the first time, there are presentable options to the incumbent and it no longer feels like a one horse race, as it was the previous [...]

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Usability? Your problem, according to Skype

Joseph on Apr 22nd 2008

Isn’t it great to be told that when a site does not work, it is YOUR fault? I went to skype.com to download the latest release for my Mac, went to the downloads page, and landed on the default Windows download page. OK, I’m used to this and expect it, even though I thought they [...]

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Visionary A C Clarke passes into the void

Joseph on Apr 12th 2008

I am of the age where the Apollo project, and humanity’s expedition to the moon, holds a great and lasting fascination that has not diminished and forms a strong basis for my core being. My view of technology, humanity, the planet and the universe are all strongly influenced by those live TV transmissions in 1969, [...]

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