Joost Needs a Boost

For the last 3 remaining people in the universe who have not yet received a Joost invite: I have now got one. Nah-​​​​nah-​​​​na-​​​​na-​​​​nah.

Joost uses peer-​​​​to-​​​​peer tech­no­logy, sim­il­arly to BitTorrent, to dis­tribute copy-​​​​protected broad­cast TV between users. It’s very simple to set up and you don’t need to tweak any settings to make it work perfectly.

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The Victoria Line is my Friend

The Victoria Line is not only the noisiest and grub­biest London Underground line; it is also my latest Twitter friend. In what may be the first known example of someone making Twitter, the ‘Seinfeld of the Internet’, do some­thing useful, philo­sophy student and all-​​​​round clever chap Tom Morris has created travel update channels

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Web Apps

FOWA day two, then. Lots of learning for me, as many of the present­a­tions had more of a developer angle. It’s stuff I’m inter­ested in, but tend not to under­stand a lot of the time thanks to an arty-​​​​farty back­ground. In general terms, I do not know my API from my elbow. I met and heard from a lot

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The Future of Digg

I was lucky enough to be at FOWA today and to hear Kevin Rose speak about the future of digg.

I was unlucky enough for my Tablet PC to crash and lose my notes from the session [my own fault]. What follows is from memory. Forgive the con­sequent ‘notey-​​​​ness’.

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In Search of Panellists and Speakers

Cross-​​​​posted from www.vecosys.com with a little fiddling to make it come from my mouth, not Mike’s.

My employer, New Media Knowledge (NMK) is taking applic­a­tions from people who would like to speak or appear on a panel at its annual new media con­fer­ence in June this year. The con­fer­ence pro­gramme is being organ­ised by the

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Man About Town

Now that this Web 2.0 malarkey has become a full-​​​​time job, I’m getting out and about a bit more than was my wont. The next couple of weeks seems set to fry my brains com­pletely. Do feel free to come and distract me with offers of beer if you’re coming along to any of these.

This week —

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