Technology

As the cunningly Wall St encoded heading may suggest, Google has purchased a web publishing firm, Pyra Labs. Should be testament enough to the appeal of blogging for those cynics out there… Google buys popular Web publishing company – Feb. 17, 2003

It’s amazing what some people will pay for if it has a shiney wrapper. I think my thoughts on this are best summed up by paraphrasing a certain credit card company’s ad campaign. Cost of my Blog package = $0 To think somebody would pay for it = priceless Read on… CNN.com – Red Herring… Read More »The Biz Blog?

Interesting read from the blog of Jon Udell where he interviews Ward Cunningham (inventor of WiKi) about the current strain of XP (extreme programming) and how the “job” generally gets done. Read on Jon Udell: Refactoring the business

Well it’s lunch time and I’m hungry but still I can’t resist one more XML-based entry to my blog. This time around I have encapsulated some of my personal information in a FOAF file (an RDF description of myself). FOAF stands for Friend Of A Friend and you can create your own FOAF simply enough… Read More »You lazy foaf!

Well since the whole world is gone Geo-sensitive and the blogging community is being engulfed by a geo-location service known as GeoURL. I too have decided to link up my site. The little green button below the search facility on the main page of this blog will help you to view my neighbours in cyberspace.… Read More »GeoURL

It’s about 4 months now since I first read about Amazon opening up its databases to queries from web services. Some have dubbed it the Amazon API 🙂 However, it’s only now that I have gotten around to reading a little more about the service and a tutorial from Developer Shed that I fully realise what this means for the future of online trading…

Read More »Getting SOAP from Amazon

Interesting blog entry from Mark Pilgrim about what happened to all those wonderful standards released by the W3C. It seems like a reasonable snapshot of how too many working groups and activities can render a standard unused. Worthwhile reading Semantic obsolescence [dive into mark]

The latest add-ons for the mobile computing user. Everyone needs a keyboard for typing any amount of text on a PDA but keyboards are bulky and not that mobile. Could projection keyboards be the answer Mícheál Ó Foghlú’s Weblog

Just read an entry on Mícheál’s weblog about how to set yourself up as a wireless ISP. With my new house looming large on the horizon I think I may even take the plunge by setting it up as a hotspot 🙂

Looks like IBM have teamed up with Opera to bring together their new XHTML and Voice solution. Read more…