I’m just enjoying the complimentary wireless on the National Express train from Newcastle to London and uploaded the presentation I’ve given at Sunderland University to start the Hack Challenge they are giving their students. Together with Yahoo Developer Network Sunderland Uni is asking their student to spend a month to build a web application using […]

Things that made me happy this morning: The UK Policy Hub have released a comprehensive document of transport statistics – a shame that it is a PDF, not XML or CSV but it looks like interesting mashup fodder Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics is Danah Boyd’s dissertation on social networks […]

Things that made me happy this morning (and I tell you about in the afternoon): I spent the morning chatting with JGP about a job portal for job seekers with disabilities – this will be massive! Obamiconme is a Flash app that allows you to vectorize your photo into one that looks like Obama’s HOPE […]

This is a new series of posts I am starting, tying in with things I’ve been saying in presentations and at interviews lately: I think it is time we mixed the speaker circuit up a bit and hear from different people than the “rock stars” of web development. In this series I will talk about […]

I’ve just finished uploading and fixing TweetEffect a web app that allows you to check which of your latest http://twitter.com updates resulted in people following or leaving you: With the demise of Qwitter there was no real update mechanism to know when you lost followers, this might be a step to fill this gap. TweetEffect […]