Tag Archives: Google
Wk31: Wait A Minute Mr Postman – The Problem With Email
Have you ever sat in a corporate seminar that taught you how to email? I have. Many times. One time, the instructor told us this: that emails are legally binding documents, like mail. And should be treated like mail. Like legal documents. This is, of course, bullshit. Email is like language itself. We, the people, […]
Wk23: Close Your Eyes – the flagging power of advertising and clickthroughs
Is anyone else worried that there might not be enough advertising money to fund the internet? By all accounts, the online market is STILL growing. Yet, right now, I am already sick of advertising covering just about everything I see online. Is it only going to get worse? Be it apps, social networks or websites, […]
Wk18: Bandcamp – taking MySpace further
MySpace is in trouble. In the last month or so I have taken my opinion back from “dead” to “slowly dying”. But even right now, it has become a forgotten destination. MySpace leaves a big gap in the market. There were many things good about it. Most of all is the easy way for people […]
Wk16: Up In the Air – the battle for Cloud Computing
Amazon opened up a Pandora’s box a few weeks ago in the US. They offered a “cloud service” to their customers for music. A 5GB (or 20GB with conditions) “locker” where you can upload your music and stream it back to your devices. It opened up a larger debate about the legal issues – what […]
Wk13: Lost In Translation – The Treachery Of English
I consider myself, pretentiously, an international citizen. I speak a couple of languages and I’m learning another. That, coupled with travel has made me aware of what I call the “Treachery of English”. Why is technology so inherently English? In the futuristic TV show Firefly, everyone speaks the only two languages that are left – […]
Wk11: Close To You – the open and closed debate, and do we care?
Open source, open platforms, closed ecosystems – seems these terms have been bandied about A LOT of late. They are very technical terms, and very important causes, with plenty of pros and cons on both sides. But what about outside of the technical world? For the music fan, the movie fan, the culturalist – where […]
Wk2: To Infinity and Beyond: Google Maps and the Infinite Canvas.
Scott McCloud coined the term “the infinite canvas” in 2000, a hopeful vision of what the internet could become. I have waited ten years for it to come to life, and it’s only occurred to me that Google Maps has done just that. Maybe, just maybe, others will follow. – The infinite canvas is based […]
No Embeds – a modern tragedy
Embedding disabled by request. Have you noticed these words on certain YouTube videos? This ha been around for a while, but usually there was a work around. Now, those videos don’t play at all. Check out OK GO‘s mega-viral clip for Here It Goes Again. Doesn’t play right? You have to go to the YouTube […]
Spotify/Cloud Computing – it's our forecast
Spotify, a European streaming/subscription service, has been making quite a bit of noise in the last year. Still in Beta, it’s been greeted with critical acclaim. We’ll discuss it in more detail in one of our upcoming Wednesday Web columns. This week, Spotify announced their latest innovation – their first App. It does everything you’d […]
