Firefox, Folkd sniff social glue
As you may have read recently, either here or elsewhere, Mozilla has announced an early development release of a social Add-On extension called The Coop to their Firefox web browser. Almost immediately, thoughts turned to Flock, fellow stable mate and web browser with special social glue.
However, with Mozilla proposing similar social stickiness for Firefox, Flock [...]
OLPC Quanta leap in laptop price?
I tend to get some interesting search queries bringing people to my ‘blog. Recently, there’s a been a steady tide of traffic drifting in on the subject of the One Laptop Per Child project, and more specifically with regards to the commercial, consumer availability of the XO laptop.
This is something I’ve given some thought to:
“The [...]
Apple Safari, Adobe Apollo in web app tie-in
The politics of the web is a many splendid thing. Political machinations within the technology industry have always fascinated me. The speed at which trends are adopted, talked up and either overtaken, upgraded or killed off is at times breathtaking.
Right now for Apple and Adobe, the trend is an upwards one, if no less circuitous [...]
Adobe CS3 uncreative pricing
I’m a web designer and developer. That’s what I do to make money. There are certain aspects of my business that absolutely require certain tools to function and to be compatible with other creatives.
An example of such tools would be Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
By the end of the month, Adobe are due to announce [...]
There’s real money in MMOGs
By way of an update to a very recent article on mine, I read with interest that the ‘market for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) in the West is now worth more than $1bn (£511m)’ While this is interesting news, it’s not surprising to me.
Without wanting to sound like some 50’s Sci-Fi author, prognosticating on [...]




