What is Yahoo!s’ Business?

The dust is still settling from Jerry Yang’s announcement that he is to step down as Yahoos’ CEO. I wonder if Yahoo! has any idea what it wants to be. Search, Advertising or Neither.
There is still talk of Microsoft buying Yahoo! Search, which is fair enough take the least toxic bit of Yahoo! But what are [...]

The Problem with Making Apps for a closed market.

Take a look at any Facebook Profile or iPhone Home Screen and you can see how lucrative the closed market is. But with one click your benovolent provider can remove the need for your application by implementing the same application as a native feature. That is to say Apple denying applications to the app store [...]

“Hello Dave, You Look Nice Today” - One step closer to HAL 9000

Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. via Gizmodo & The Telegraph 
Should the law of exponential growth hold, it isn’t going to long until we can create programs that can ace the turing test. Its [...]

Lets Spread the FUD - Web 2.0 Style.

A deluge of European startups descended on London’s ExCel Centre for the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference this week, and while the economic crisis has already reached Europe, the fear clearly hasn’t reached its startup community.Via GigaOm
OK so its hard to deny that everything in the world is in melt down, but it seems [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-09

Sometimes I wish iTunes could read my mind. It never picks a song I want to listen to when its in shuffle. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-05

mmmm, the smell of home cooking, burger and wedges. The perfect Sunday dinner. #

The Problem with Open - Android vs iPhone.

There has been lots of talk about Apple is doomed to fail with the iPhone as a software Platform and the Android platform is going to be so much better, simple because its open.
Firstly, take a look at the iPhone. Its a fantastically designed device, and the attention to detail is insane - that’s not [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-04

Ahh, the wonderful vapors of lemsip. Got to love the good old fashioned british cold. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-01

I love it when a plan comes together. #
The Music Industry are idiots => http://tinyurl.com/3q6fjk #

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-30

The rich keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting poorer - Welcome to the 21st Century. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-29

DaDaDa - Another Bank bites the dust. #
What Wall Street needs is more cowbell - You can never have enough Cow Bell. #

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-27

perfect way to spend a morning - moving to 50 websites to a new server. Yay! #

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-26

Honda - MusicLink is uterly rubbish, its not that difficult to get the iPod to pass the track/playlist names to the screen - BMW can do it. #
Christmas is that close, iTunes shuffle its like Mr Claus is picking the songs. #
I have an empty wallet, maybe I can have some of Wall Streets Bail [...]

$75,000 - Another Epic Waste of Money.

Whatever happened to commonsense and peoples BS meters.
The CopySense Appliance is the only solution that can identify and block illegal sharing of copyrighted files while allowing other legitimate P2P uses to continue.Audible Magic via TorrentFreak
So what does the $75,000 network appliance get you, well nothing other than another piece of useless technology attached to your [...]

Ryanair - Your Signal of Doom Awaits

“Irish low cost carrier Ryanair is just a few weeks away from launching in-flight mobile phone service.” Gadling.com

There’s nothing quite like being the architects of your own destruction, its bad enough that you get nothing on Ryanair flights (well you actually paid nothing) but now as another extra you can pay to call home and [...]