Seminar: Web Content Strategy

I'll be presenting at KMP's Web Content Strategy in Black and White seminar in London on the 19th of November. The theme will cover many aspects of getting the most out of your web content. My keynote will focus on content distribution, expanding your web presence …

Migration done

I've completed the move of the blog to WordPress hosted at Media Temple. I have a great feeling of satisfaction that comes with knowing I have more scope to do fun things with this site.

The current theme is Simple Balance 2.0 by

Moving home

There has been a distinct lack of activity here for the past couple of weeks. This has partly been due to work pressures but also because I've been quietly working on the idea of migrating this blog to WordPress and switching hosting provider. I've been hosted by

Social Media Marketing in Black and White

On Tuesday, I gave a keynote at KMP's Social Media Marketing in Black and White seminar. On the whole I think it went OK although as I hadn't done a full run through of the presentation I think I got a little derailed halfway through - mainly because I wrote the …

Dan Olsen on product management

Dan Olsen gave a talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY entitled Good to Great: Achieving Product Excellence in Web 2.0, I don't think I was alone in expecting the session to focus on mainly UI design, usability and user experience. However I was surprised to find that Dan's talk …

Status Report 1 - Productivity 0

Here's an interesting thing, how long does an interruption really take? I'm looking at this primarily from the point of view of a developer.

Working on code is generally a hyper-focused task. I usually find that what I'm doing is writing the code according to a mental …

A project to get excited about

KMP (my employer) has been running an ongoing series of business seminars, primarily as a lead generation tool. We recently decided that rather than use our company as the main brand for these events, we would create a new brand under which to run them. Our creative …

Smeet, something new in virtual worlds?

I met up with a couple of the guys from Smeet in New York and was given a demo of the technology. Smeet Is a browser based virtual world / social network. It does a very good job of the usual things like avatar creation and the normal social networking features - mail, …

Web 2.0 Expo NY

I'm gradually catching up with things since returning from Web 2.0 Expo, it was a busy week with too many things to try and fit in but there was one nice thing that I noticed. Although I had set my BS filters on high alert, I didn't find too much need for them. Pretty …

Ready for web 2.0 expo

Having spent an enjoyable day sightseeing in New York, I'm now getting ready for web 2.0 expo. Unlike many of the other people who are here as part of Digital Mission, I'm not here to promote a specific product. I'm here to trade ideas.

I'm hoping to spend the next few …

37 Signals phasing out IE6 support

I hadn't seen the announcement when I wrote about my suggestion for helping IE6 out of the door, but it seems that 37 Signals have decided the same thing.

Their announcement made in July, was clarified yesterday to state:

We will not intentionally break IE 6 …

Just to let you know...

If anybody wants to meet up for a chat, let me know through the usual channels.

Accessibility for the hard of browsing

With the recent beta release of Chrome - Google's new web browser, there has been plenty of talk about how fast it is and also how standards-compliant it is. Built as an open source project using components from Webkit, Safari and Firefox, it certainly hits the ground …

Why companies are struggling to "get" social media

There is considerable talk among social media "experts" on how companies, particularly PR and marketing companies, are failing to utilise social media wisely - often getting it so wrong that they end up pissing people off. I think that we are currently seeing a change …

PayPal FAIL

Today I was trying to find out which of PayPal's services was the most suitable for a client's project. After go through the questions on their recommendation wizard I was still unsure based on some of the specific requirements for the project. Luckily beneath the …

UK Technology Czar - surprisingly plausible

I wouldn't normally comment on politics but today I was prompted into posting a rant which I've had brewing for a while.

Whilst catching up on my blog subscriptions, I read Cory Doctorow's post concerning this podcast interview with Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom, I'm …

A List Apart's 2008 web design survey

A List Apart are once again running a survey to find out how the web design industry hangs together. From the website:

Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is …

ASP.NET vs PHP (yawn)...no wait, give me a chance to explain

A subject which I've been wrestling with for a while now is this whole ASP.Net vs PHP thing. I've been a .Net developer for years now and before that I worked primarily in ASP (vbscript). But recently I've grown more interested in experimenting with PHP. At a recent …

Mind your whuffie

I finally got around to reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow and I've got a better understanding of whuffie after hearing all about it at Fuel from Tara Hunt.

The book is set in a future where there is no scarcity so money is obsolete. The de facto …

At last, a web-based presentation app which doesn't suck (hopefully)

I noticed the link to this on Jacob Morgan's blog recently, Sliderocket is a web-application for creating presentations. This in itself is nothing new Google docs has included a presentation application for a while now and Zoho Show is also well established but there …