Microsoft’s Photosynth is pretty amazing, and I just couldn’t wait to take lots of photos of something to try it out. Combined with laziness, I ended up doing my own head. (You’ll need to install the plugin.) Karl’s Head photosynthed
Microsoft have used their MSN network to study the Six Degrees of Separation theory and seem to think the average number is about six after all. Which I could have told them anyway… The good news is my Six Degrees Facebook application gets a mention at the bottom of the Guardian article. BBC NEWS | …
I’ve been working on my Six Degrees Facebook application on and off the past couple of weeks, partly as a way to get to know what the new platform is capable of, and it seems to have paid off. For the first time I’ve gone over 300 thousand installs, and daily active users is up …
A piece I’ve written for Inside Facebook on the official version of Scrabble to be released by EA and Mattel. It’s Official – You’ll Soon be Able to Play Scrabble on Facebook
I was on the marketing panel at the Social Media Business School last Friday (27th June). In the main, I was there as a Facebook application developer and to talk about how to design and grow an application. The day was fairly interesting for me, although perhaps less valuable for Social Media (the company, not …
This e-mail from Bill Gates when trying to install Microsoft Movie Maker from 5 years ago is an interesting insight into not only what Gates did at Microsoft, but just how frustrated he seems to be with the usability of Windows at the time. There are some excellent quotes in there that echo questions we’ve …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4] Mostly funny.
That’s the obvious conclusion from this BBC news article. Although this “discovery” is somewhat less than startling: “Dr Jakubowicz reported that the big breakfasters said they felt less hungry, particularly in the mornings.” BBC NEWS | Health | Big breakfast ‘aids weight loss’
Another year, and another Eurovision is over. For me, this one will be remembered for a lack of any real event (since we didn’t have a get-together), a few reasonable songs, a few awful ones, and possibly the most predictable voting patterns yet. Indeed, the voting was so bad that even Terry Wogan is thinking …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs] Too true.