I just got back from the Future of Web Apps in London where I was asked to fill in a talk quickly. The topic I picked was progressive enhancement and HTML5 as a re-boot of web development as we know it. Here are the slides, the audio recording and the links mentioned in the deck […]

A therapeutic Robot seal – of course Japanese – should help people with dementia and other disorders to get a new sense of caring for something. Tamagotchi / Furby on steroids and very cute to boot.Stephen fry is just lovely – and so can you.It seems that Symantec’s hack is whack competition web site was […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Dan Catt of the Guardian (and Flickr fame) has a great write-up on website redesigns and scaling issues with social elements.Ablenet provides us with SoundingBoard, an iPad/iPhone/iPad Touch app that allows you to create message boards with nine predefined messages connected to your own photos. Imagine Hawking’s communicator […]

As you know, I give a lot of talks at conferences. Most of my life these days is to keep my eyes open for cool things, try them out, document them and package them up in a presentation for a conference. This does not only mean writing demos and explaining the why – it also […]

OK, in the last few minutes you will have gotten a few tweets of people explaining that they like to have intercourse through the backdoor with goats. This is a Twitter exploit – probably initiated by someone doing a security talk (I know some people who would be devious enough). The exploit is actually easy […]