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 […]

Back in September I showed a solution how to display filtered tweets on your blog using Yahoo Pipes which is in use on this page in the sidebar on the right. There were a few issues with it: the data returned was pretty big and slowed down the page (yeah I could delay this after […]