Here is a list of all blog posts I have made since I began blogging on this domain in 2004.
Having archives that date back to when I was 23 is a both a blessing and a curse… it is great to be able to highlight my best work, but in there are also the posts which I probably wouldn’t write now.
It’s also worth pointing out that before 2007 this blog was an outlet for both personal and professional interests.
- 2012: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2004: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
February 2012
- PaperKarma, Craigslist and unintentional disruption
- From the notebook: musings about so-called 'acqhire' talent acquisitions
- What visa type do you need, exactly, to legally participate in Y Combinator?
August 2011
May 2011
April 2011
- Thoughts on a "risk averse BBC", as covered in the Guardian today
- 23 and John Doe: thoughts on today's genetic testing sale at 23andMe
- Amazon's incorrect priorities when it comes to copyright enforcement on the Kindle
March 2011
- On iPads, tablets and Microsoft's vacant bet in the non-post-PC world
- What 'price' for your Facebook account details?
January 2011
- Poisoned RSS: An approach to dealing with aggressive feed thieves
- 'Hacking the BBC', a BBC Backstage Retrospective
December 2010
November 2010
- Thoughts on WikiLeaks' delayed release of the 'CableGate' files
- Some thoughts on Path - the most visible MVP test to date
October 2010
- Today Apple announced the end of the optical drive from *all* its laptops
- vb.ly is dead, long live vbly.us
- Our response to NIC.ly's statement on the vb.ly domain deletion
- The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe
September 2010
- Any strategy to Twitter's rollout of #NewTwitter?
- “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”
- Keep Making Social Networks, Facebook Hasn't Won
- Glad to see price increases for SxSW Interactive 2011
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
- Maybe Zappos wasn't the amazing shiny business bundle of joy it was made out to be?
- The real reason Bing Cashback is ending: we all scammed the f**k out of it.
May 2010
- Open Standards: Losing our independents
- First exit on the right: NutShell Mail gets acquired!
- Geeks On A Plane Behind A Firewall
- Thoughts on BankSimple
April 2010
- Twitter continues on the offensive: now iPhone
- Twitter and the need for a developer exit strategy
- A passing thought on a more open iPad...
- The iPad: it will be as successful as the Netbook...
March 2010
January 2010
- WordPress to be (currently) considered unsafe?
- Something fishy going on with Kindle free bestseller ebooks?
- A cautionary tale on Yahoo!'s potential API legacies
November 2009
October 2009
- Yahoo! Taiwan 2009 Hack Day Stripper-gate: an addendum
- User aqusition: easy-come should be easy-go
- My GMail password scares me with its power!
- WOW it's expensive to use Freshbooks and Harvest at scale
June 2009
May 2009
March 2009
- Seesmic for Facebook desktop client
- "hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy" attack on Twitter
- Why you want to have crackers in your security team
- Facebook's 'open' move into the data mining space
February 2009
- Follow the Pirate Bay Trial with commentry from @Sofia
- Twhirl 0.9 available for download
- $280 Dell Mini 9 running OSX is blueprint for the future
January 2009
- More analysis, like the piece on the Bebo sale, please TechCrunch!
- Join 'Team Seesmic-Twhirl' beta tester group and get exclusive preview access
- Flickr/Getty stock deal breaks Creative Commons licenses
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- Apps are live on MySpace!
- LearnHub.com - a social network for learning
- ClickPass launches, brings OpenID to everyday people
- Some thoughts on Lawrence Lessig and a possible Pirate Party USA
February 2008
January 2008
- MySpace Developer Platform opening on Tuesday, sign up now!
- Back from perhaps one of the worst weeks of my life
- Google, Facebook and Plaxo join DataPortability.org
December 2007
- The ridiculousness of airport security
- Helping UK startups get ahead in San Francisco and Silicon Valley
- Marc Orchant: very sad news
- Seesmic
- Channel 4 launches tiny widget/mashup competition
- Marc Orchant critically ill
November 2007
- Like Beacon, Facebook's 'News Feed' feature was also hated to begin with too
- Advising MySpace on their Platform...
October 2007
- Facebook's crafty theatre over that $15bn valuation
- FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and NewsGator to support APML!
- On LobbyConning
- Firefox for mobile: being built to to provide a browser for the GPhone?
- Did Jaiku just become a sacrifical lamb for the GPhone?
- Would you pay a voluntary contribution for your BitTorrent usage?
- An introduction to APML
- Don't bother trying to flag quetionable content on Yahoo!'s JumpCut
- My first take on Seesmic
- TechMeme Top 100 is 'Top 100' of what, exactly?
- Thoughts on Tom Morris on APML
September 2007
- Orange France customers now have OpenID
- Free Exhibit Hall Passes for MacWorld Conference
- Apple iPod Touch: The Unboxing
- Looks like TechCrunchUK is back... TechCrunchUK2.0?
- Apple jumps the exclusivity shark
- Now, Steve, how do I get Peets on the iPhone?
- My take on Seedcamp entries
- Seth Godin on 'hard work', this Labor Day
August 2007
- Fund setup for Open Source's Greg Stein, who was attacked last Friday
- Deflating a little of the Jon Schwartz's Java puff...
- Speaking at the Office 2.0 conference
- Skype Outage: Too many holes in the official explanation for my liking
July 2007
- Some thoughts on good conferences to attend
- Stowe Boyd's Brannan Street Irregulars - and the need for a corporate façade
- Engineering 'talkability' into real-world products
June 2007
- Unifying the mobile platform: why the iPhone is really important
- Bret Taylor leaves Google Code to start Benchmark-backed startup
- Back to their roots: Yahoo! appoints Jerry Yang as CEO
- Big Corp Thinking: #01 in an occasional series...
- Flying to London....
- 101 Spock invites...
- GMail down for me
- Something *big* from Steve Jobs next week?
May 2007
- At Google Developer Day 07, San Jose... Google Gears looks hawt
- Coming to London June 14-20 for Yahoo! HackDayUK
- Get your tickets for GigaOm/NewTeeVee screening
- Marissa Mayer and Brad Garlinghouse to accompany MC Hammer
- BBC Future Media: So sad to watch the train crash happening
- Bubbletop needs a Rockstar AJAX/Frontend Programmer!
- Major vulnerability with Yak4Ever.com site
- MC Hammer appointed onto board of judges for TechCrunch20
- Has Upcoming 2.0 been all sucky for you too? Maybe this is why...
- New look for Google Analytics
- London Widget Week - 14-22nd May
- It's not even into live beta yet and TechCrunch writes up Bubbletop
- When your assets are no longer monetizable: Yahoo! Photos to close
- Announcing Bubbletop...
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April 2007
- Jason Calacanis - the master baiter
- Quote of the day
- Yes, DHH, some places really don't have all-you-can-eat ubiquitous free bandwidth
- April Fools becomes April Power-trip
March 2007
- April Fools comes early, surely?
- Reaching the tipping point: Online ad spend overtakes newspapers in the UK
- TailRank spins out backend as Spinn3r
- Condemning the abusive threats made towards Kathy Sierra
- TechCrunch hires Heather Harde as CEO, will it become a VC firm?
- Mobile MeshWalk around South Park
- Finally able to announce I'm working with Orange France Telecom
- My reactions to the BBC deal with Google/YouTube
- European start-up scene
- Back from London, back to blogging
February 2007
- Offline for a few days
- OT: $30-off Apple Store coupon going spare
- Backstage hosts round-table debate on DRM to kick off it's first podcast
- Do we really want to aggregate *ALL* our social networks together?
- On linkbaiting, SEO'ing and all that other crap
- Is this Jim Gray? If not plz help!
- Was Mike two-faced over the way he launched TechCrunch20?
- Media landscape in Sweden: no holding back, it's *all* going online
January 2007
- Flickr forces users to merge account with Yahoo!ID
- Media2.0 Workgroup is go!
- StolenIDSearch.com: Encouraging users to be too casual with their personal info?
- Some thoughts on the BBC's announced 'virtual world for kids'
- BT's BarCamp PR blunder
- Update on the job hunt
- WordPress 2.1 out today
- Disrupting the disruptives: Kicking it to YouTube + Co by offering your own embedded video player
- Great quote
- I've decided to leave Citizen Agency...
- Apple iPhone exists!
- 'This is> dotBen' and my new homepage both launched
- MacWorldExpo: iPhone announcement unlikely
- Time.com to publish original material, leaves print magazine behind
- Free exhibit hall tickets to MacWorld Expo (+ some of the parties)
- All Change! This is a 'serious blogging only' zone from now on
December 2006
- dotBen (hair)red
- Zudeo partners with BBC to distribute programming in US
- Just one more link plz...
- LeWeb3 fallout: some interesting further (/final?) reading
- Six Apart removes Sam Sethi's TypePad account?
- Sam Sethi fired by TechCrunch
- Linden isn't playing a level game with SecondLife usage figures
- Phil Torrone's open source laser etching business
- I wish I could remove comment moderation...
- LeWeb3: calling bullshit on the politicians from the finger-channel
- Roll on LeWeb3... (where's the backchannel?)
- Zooomr: "The Power to Unite"
- CNET's James Kim found dead
- What about a 'There are no dumb answers' policy?
- More on Violent Acres...
- Sure, she's gained popularity, but is it really worth being snarky like Violent Acres?
- Why do we decide things 'by committiee'?
November 2006
- Do WiFi-based VoIP phones really scale?
- Bonjour on Windows and printer drivers...
- YouTube'r lands presenting job with BBC... sort of
- Levinsohn, Calacanis and Miller to form new company?
- Zune not on sale in San Francisco?
- Modern Life *AIN'T* Rubbish
- Are you upgrading to a new MacBook or MacBookPro? Do you have an old PowerBook going spare?
- Amazon S3 cost savings and the future of utility computing services
- Microsoft: The left arm not talking to the right
- This is Web2.0...?
- Disclosing interests
- JP on SongBird
- Comments fixed
October 2006
- Artists screwed both ways in YouTube deal?
- #67 in the UK100 influential blog list
- Did you get a Chumby in round 2?
- Ev Williams buys back Odeo and Twitter
- Firefox 2.0 bug: looses form data when back button is pushed
- Google can go shove their lexicographical 'advice' up their ass
- Firefox 2.0 is go!
- George Bush uses 'The Google'
- Google Blog Search gets love from Google News
- IE7 hits the streets
- MMORPG: Time the industry started to act responsibly?
- NY Times in your face this weekend
- Tailrank 2.0
- Google would love to buy Yahoo! (so would Fox, AT&T, Microsoft...)
- The fascinating tale of the pro-feminist male blogger and the porno sell-out
- OpenRightsGroup seeks full-time Executive Director
- Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK
- Les Blogs III: Dec 11 + 12 2006, Paris
- Investment opportunity: buy shrink-wrapped Win XP now!
- It's official: YouTube is now GoogTube
- Red Bull Air Race San Francisco
- Google gets a ping service, 'full' blogging search around the corner?
- Yahoo! Hack Day was off the hook
September 2006
- JP Rangasawmi: "I've never worked for a competitor"
- Developer network consulting @ Citizen Agency
- Michael Arrington sets the record straight on TechCrush
- Where do old iPods go to die?
- BBC Global News' Richard Sambrook comes out...
- PBWiki gets an API
- Blog vs Vlog = ASCII vs Binary
- Haight Ashbury meets Chavs
- Life in San Francisco
- BarCampLondon - wow, what a rush.
August 2006
- Return of the crazy hair2.0
- Friday GeekDinner with... me!
- Google's Eric Schmidt joins Apple board
- The Future of Web Apps: San Francisco
- Is your domain right for Google web apps?
- Do you know who made your laptop battery?
- Now Apple recalls batteries made by Sony (OEM)
- More on the Gervais/Microsoft UK debacle
- America grants me a work visa – YES!
- Ian Forrester is the new man @ backstage.bbc.co.uk
- META: I'm blogging on the back burner for a little while
- Microsoft UK/Ricky Gervais viral videos - are they real?
- TechCrunch Party
- Some thoughts on Apple's 'Report on iPod Manufacturing (in China)'
- (Google) Writely re-opens beta
- Boring update to GTalk ships
- More thoughts on the status quo of the A-List
- Why are *we* the bottom feeders?
- Kevin Anderson's off to Guardian
- Great free PDF creation tool for Windows
- Ashley Highfield puff-piece in the Independent
- Why I have an 'extreme' alter-ego
- Confirmed: Dell to recall some batteries
- Guy Kawasaki on getting a job in Silicon Valley
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - the latest A-list blogger?
- Our Wedding Flickr is up
- Microsoft launches Windows Live Writer, a blog authoring tool
- Sofia and I get hitched
- Linked In on LinkedIn without my consent
- Wow, I want one of each...
- Niall follows his heart and goes solo
- Every UK postcode given an E-Society rating
- Google to provide search + ads for MySpace (and other Fox properties)
- AOL releases search data on 500k users... and then tries to take it back
- Announcing BarCampLondon: Sep 2-3 2006
- That Arrington, he must be making a packet with CrunchBoards
- The rumours were true: AOL goes free
- Vista to have version control after all, sort of
- Lebanon crisis: everything else pales into insignificance
July 2006
- Dell blog (still?) removing comments
- Google to offer Bug Tracking and Subversion hosting
- I had a change of heart...
- Backstage.bbc.co.uk wins Innovation Award
- Great day out at the British Motor Show 2006
- Fake my ID, be dotBen, and have a party
- OpenBC launches design competition - what a great idea!
- India bans access to TypePad, Blogspot and GeoCities
- Neville on Astroturfing, Me on Project Astroturfing (Mk II)
- Attempted burglary on our appartment
- More on my move to San Francisco
- The Economist on Apple DRM lock-in
- Preloadr - image pre-processing for Flickr
- Free wifi cafe culture begins to create friction
- Rocketboom: yeah, so what?
- Joining forces with Tara and Chris at the Citizen Agency
- Gnomex 6.0 - a fantastic conference
- BBC confirms plans to put adverts on International websites
June 2006
- Gnomedex: locking out the backchannel
- PayPal is f'ked
- Deep in thought in San Francisco
- BarCampSanFrancisco + Gnomedex 6.0, and perhaps BloggerCon IV too
- The British take on the Sony Bravia/San Francisco advert...
- @Media 06 Conference is supposedly happening
- BBC News adds live stats (+ XML)
- The first day in a brave new world
- Robert Scoble departs from Microsoft
- Wow, BBC Newsnight links *back* to Digg...
- If I was a town, I'd be San Luis Obispo
- Tara says bye-bye to Riya
- New Microsoft fonts in Office 2007
May 2006
- Pirate Bay crew arrested, site down
- Why SecondLife/Flickr Mashup is REALLY cool...
- O'Reilly claim copyright over "Web2.0"
- Smack-your-Mac Interface
- META: Does this site need a new skin?
- Orkut and Blogger: Algorithms aren't the answer to everything
- Google Mail (+ Google Talk) down and unavailable
- Podcast.com launches
- BBC Open Earth Archive gets a BAFTA
- iDon't.com Part I: an poor response to an important issue
- Follow up to New Scientist article on Mashups
- MacBook keyboad really sucks
- The MacBook is launched
- F'ked over twice by Skype "free calls" announcement
- EXCLUSIVE: BBC 'cab driver' was really there for a job interview!
- BBC gaff #2
- Bit Torrent legal loophole?
- Web 2.0 doesn't work in the mothership, but...
- LG Chocolate phone
- Health and Safety issues create "Top of the Flops" @ BBC
- Which laptop should I get?
- We Media 06
- MySpace IM launches, what about a MMORPG?
- We Media + We Media Fringe
- The rumours are true: I'm leaving the BBC...
- Sphere blog search launches
April 2006
- Must be flattery...
- Launch#2: reboot:bbc.co.uk
- Launch #1: BBC Programme Catalogue
- Find, Play, Share: The BBC's Creative Future
- Apple announce 17" MacBook Pro
- Off to Canada...
- The leak, the bloggers and the "MySpace Killer"
- Tara and Chris in Bangalore
- John Dvorak: Apple Needs to Make OS X Open-Source
- Google launches calendar service
- Attention and The Trojan Horse of 'Free Internet'
- BBC launches Blog Network & Blog Portal
- Want to take part in the We Media 2006 conference?
- Have you seen ZoomInfo?
March 2006
- danah vs Bill O'Reilly on MySpace
- Response to danah's MySpace essay
- A sad day to be Canadian...
- Mix06: Backchannel
- Mix06: Streamed Live
- Mix06: IE7 Beta 2 Preview just released
- A sad git in Las Vegas
- Welcome to the Ben Metcalfe State-Side Experience
- Straight from the #etech backchannel
- Origami is out, it's a mini Tablet PC
- Ray Ozzie launches Live Clipboard and Wired Web concepts at ETech
- Bye-bye LA
- BarCampLA Roundup
- Adaptive Path 5th Party
- @ BarCampLA
- Making an appearance at BarCampLosAngeles
February 2006
- Being a geek in San Francisco
- San Francisco 'Out of Towner' with Ben Metcalfe
- Contacting me whilst I'm in the USA
- San Francisco bound...
- Google Page Creator (+ webhosting)
- MySpace on the Daily Show
- Andy Budd and the Mastery of CSS
- Steve Gillmor's "bullshit detector spray"
- Hair2.0
- Where do you put all that other stuff?
- Get your sign up codes for coComment
- Google buys Measure Map (and gets Jeffrey Veen)
- MAKE something to kill yourself?
- Is it worth going to Mix06 out of my own pocket?
- Join the BBC's grid computing experiment
- Cool Yahoo! Design Pattern bling
- coComment: Scoble says...
- Gmail on your domain
- A bad couple of days in the office
- My OPML
- Russell Beattie drops comments
- The 14 year old coders are back
- CoComment: semantically forked conversation?
- Citizen Journalists, you are now 'witness contributors'
- Should you really Digg it?
- LIFT06 - Audio and Video
- Valleywag - I take it back
- CoComment and the Conversation Index
- Valleywag- you call that content?
- Google Earth + Flash = Flash Earth
- Wikipedia traffic exceeds bbc.co.uk
January 2006
- Google confirm they ARE working on an OS
- Did Google have a third option in China?
- Evil companies can turn good
- Near-miss over London
- "The world according to Google", a BBC Programme
- The Thames Whale has died
- A whale is swimming in The Thames
- Yes, I'm lucky to be a conference whore...
- The dangers of off-loading your privacy abroad
- Post-Cluetrain marketing tips by Tara
- Firefox's new ping attribute
- Roof-top advertising for Google Maps
- Mobile Phone Moan
- Cool PSP case recommendation (+ giveaway!)
- PSP v2.60 firmware hacked for homebrew!
- Facebook connections with the CIA?
- BBC's Power of Nightmares now on Google Video
- O'Reilly ETech in Secure Site Shocker
- London Geek Dinner with Dave Shea (23 Jan 06)
- Register 50 free .be domains
- Downside to Skype/Netgear agreement
- Google to sell video and give away software bundle(?)
- George Galloway in Big Brother UK
- New Musical Experiences: an exellent paper by Dan Hill
- Epic 2014 for the financial markets
- I refuse to "register" to post to comment to a blog
- Don't sign up for goowy.com
- 2005: Year of the digital citizen (and Yahoo!'s digital citizens)
- Another late night post...
December 2005
- I'm joining the "Web2.0 is dead" meme
- FactoryJoe: "I Represent Me"
- MySQL database caching in PHP
- Mashup Camp in San Francisco
- "How Women and Men Use the Internet"
- Catch up post
- Merry Christmas!
- Cool as fuck
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0 RC3
- Automattic becomes the WordPress family
- Interesting insights from the Google Zeitgeist 2005
- What are your predictions for 2006?
- Power of 10 video
- Google search for "**"
- "Market position, not technical brilliance"
- Google: What did they actually get for their $1bn?
- Simply bizarre webcomic
- [Housekeeping] Illness, comments back on moderation, 410-gone
- More Con's to put on the expense account...
- BBC News releases Creative Archive video clips
- The all-new Talking Shop Podcast
- Some issues the blogosphere needs to address
- Yahoo gets del.icio.us
- Dave Winer wades in
- Les Blogs: Me + Mena
- News from Les Blogs
- First mainstream BBC blog launched
- Les Blogs - all too much for Canter
- Ready for Les Blogs to kick off
- Bound for Paris
- Getting ready for Les Blogs, Paris
- Adam Curry bigging up his ego on Wikipedia?
- GoogleTalk gets it's own blog
November 2005
- My favourite car, wrecked!
- (off topic) Is this blog to erratic?
- PSP firmware 2.6 is out - RSS and podcasting!
- Ev Williams: 10 rules for startups
- Xbox 360: hard as nails
- Never forget the value chain
- A new microformat
- Fasterfox: when Firefox Extensions go bad!
- Sony PSP Talkman - a potentially brilliant tool
- Blog template bugs fixed
- London Perl Workshop
- Any ideas?
- backstage.bbc.co.uk meet-up - Dec 12th
- AJAX training
- The technology behind sucicide bombs
- Feedster 500
- diggdot.us - don’t.like.it
- HearFromYourMP.com
- XTech2006 Call for Participation
- Google Analyitics now works for me (wrongly says "no data")
- An interesting post on why Google Base is great
- Still no Google Analytics
- Riya - when the "open concept" goes too far (REPOST)
- Google Base launched, but what is it?
- Les Blogs here I come
- Anyone getting any stats from Google Analytics?
- A take on why Web2.0 can't be defined
- More on that crappy wine...
- I can see the sea!
- UK concert ticket industry whinges about the Internet
- Post MoMo London update
- Things I never knew about Brian Eno...
- BBC News offers AV RSS - a correction
- MoMo London
- Kayak Buzz - find cheap flights via Google Maps
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
- BBC News offers AV RSS
- IMDB for BBC Programmes
- Looking for a MediaWiki Template designer...
October 2005
- Since when was Wikipedia Web2.0?
- Blog for sale?
- Ben Metcalfe Blog goes all RebotCast
- Sunday night nerves in preparation for tomorrow's return to work
- Red Bee, bloody daft
- Hamachi - free VPN/LAN-over-net
- Does presentation matter anymore?
- Sky News launches its first blog
- Coming home...
- Tokyo Update
- Also in the news…
- Public transport in Tokyo
- New look Have Your Say launches
- Was I reading a biography of myself?
- Arrived in Tokyo
- The Magnificent Plaza Hotel was magnificent
- Technology standards in China – a concerning issue
- Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix
- Nanshi and Old Shanghai
- Internet access in China
- Lee's been spotted by Meg
- The Oriental Pearl Tower and the Jin Mao Tower
- Sightseeing update
- Fire on the streets of Shanghai
- Smells, red lights and pesky peddlers
- Comunisism Spam
- My Dad on BBC News Website
- Hello from Shanghai!
- Out Of Office: I’m off to get mental oriental!
- BBC News goes all Slahdot and Kuro5hin
- Your feedback on iMP
- ...then again
- Video iPod is coming
- London Geek Dinner with Tim O'Reilly 13th Oct
- Review of the BBC iMP beta
- Open Content Alliance launches
- ResFest London 2005 - what a great day
- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
September 2005
- Free DivX "Create" bundle
- "Copy Fight LDN" @ Resfest 2005, London
- Overclock your mac mini
- 7 out of 10 people don't know what a blog is
- Francis Alÿs's Seven Walks
- Google on "crappy wine"
- The future of TV at Yahoo!
- An open "letter/blog post" to users from "Biased BBC Website"
- Danah Boyd: "consume and produce as a connected process"
- Google admit they are manipulatable
- A little spat with Hugh MacLeod
- London Geek Dinner with Scoble: 10th Dec 2005
- Don't buy junk
- Opera sings free
- Google BlogSearch = more spam
- Blogs and the UK
- Bush: "Can I go to the toilet, please?"
- London Underground to run one hour later on Friday and Saturday nights?
- Intel chips cost just £25/$40 to make
- Google Blog Search launches
- Introducing the NAZR
- eBay buys Skype
- New look Guardian
- Plus.Net broadband is cool
- Pete Clifton, the subtle genius
- Crazy hotel rooms
- Cool: Naked Nano
- What I overheard in Starbucks...
- "Our Social World": I'm not being social
- Bean counting at the BBC
- Rip, mix and win: First Creative Archive competition
- Normal service is resumed
- US Navy jamming radio communications in New Orleans?
- SixApart's 32 favourite features in Movable Type 3.2: there's only 25 of them
- Steve Ballmer: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy"
- Welcome to the WikiFarm
- Google: Just how much is too much?
- British banks profit from a nation of debt
August 2005
- One day special: Free licences for Opera browser
- Matt Locke does a "David Bailey"
- More thoughts on the future of Podcast managed services
- Blogging and podcast start-up paradigms
- Just can't think straight this week
- It's not every day you see a...
- Chilling in Göteborg, Sweden
- Feedster Top 500, the Long Tail and measureing true success
- New feature on Google search results
- Email filters gone mad
- Are blogs the first real example of the Internet moving away from being a derivative medium?
- FooCamp: No, I didn't get an invite either
- Did the BBC use Wikipedia to viral-market alternative reality game?
- BBC releases first offerings from the Creative Archive
- Not playing fair undermines Open Media
- Flaws with the eBay Trust model
- CacheLogic: "The True Picture of Peer-To-Peer Filesharing"
- Addictive flash game
- What is the Google Admin Console?
- Google News RSS opens up a whole set of rights issues
- Ahhhh... code!
- Hotel recommendation for Tokyo?
- My issues with PayPal
- Excited to be going to Shanghai and Tokyo...
- Elevator Hack - I think it works
- Need a North American credit card?
- How we spend our time online
- Yahoo! launches Podcast and audio search
- BBC News Website Doh!
- O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2006 call for participation
- PSP browser: ok but no cigar
- Yahoo! beta ad service for blogs and smaller websites
- Al Gore tries to remain 'current'
- Elevator Hacks
- Deer Park Alpha 2
- When it comes to email, why are so many people so dumb?
- Yet another FOAF network to join...
- Looking for a 'man bag'
- 90% of the time, we 'get it'
- Timeline of a podcast
July 2005
- Branson claims his Virgins
- Podcast: Ben Metcalfe Podcast #0(beta)
- Jamie Kane has died
- TV-Anytime Perl parser released
- Ultimate Geek Bling Prize
- Wired article about mobile phone use on the Grime scene
- backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 05 was great
- Surprise birthday party at work
- Another day, another set of bombs
- Naughty GreaseMonkey
- Special Geek Dinner: Jeremy Zawodny
- Google producing a podcasting search engine?
- US programmer pays Indian developer to do his job
- Blog birthday
- Lack of updates, busy week
- How safe is your RSS reader?
- Microsoft Coding4Fun on MSDN
- Ultimate keyboard?
- We remember
- Please remember the victims of the London bombings
- BBC Open Source website launches
- 40,000 hits per second...
- Bike riding seems to be popular
- London Tube Delays in RSS back up
- BBC AV News RSS feeds tidied up
- ICE: In Case of Emergency
- London Blasts: Quick follow up
- London Blasts: Sofia and Ben are safe
- Olympics 2012: More thoughts on today's announcement
- East London gets the 2012 Olympics!
- UFO: Finally identified
- Mobile GMaps: Google Maps on your J2ME mobile
- Pink Floyd: They’ve still got it
- backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech Event (July 23rd 2005)
- Make Corruption History
June 2005
- Google make Map API available (finally)
- Kano drops his first album (+ welcome to grime)
- More Grok please, we're British!
- backstage.bbc.co.uk launches 7 day TV and radio XML listings
- Troll, Gadfly or Culture Jammer?
- Fantastic content from the BBC website
- Woof Woof
- MS RSS extensions: do we/don’t we?
- Amazon have trademarked "Real Name™"
- Sony attempts to "impound" grey-import PSPs
- Microsoft to bastardise RSS
- Play real world Monopoly - free!
- Wordpress Stats package recommendation please
- Mi5 warns high-tech workers about foreign espionage
- RSS has become common
- Swamped by W32.Mytob.EH@mm
- eBay and Live8 - capitalism vs anti-capitalism
- 20 questions of the dark side
- My Dad's pissed off
- x86 Tiger OSX already leaked (unless it's snake-oil)
- My favourite 5... Computer + Software gadgets
- (off topic) New .htaccess on my blog
- BBC recording equipment appears on eBay
- Microsoft previews Acrylic, a new graphics app
- What am I currently reading?
- backstage.bbc.co.uk at the SkillCity conference, London
- June 's London Geek Dinner
- Geek Dinner London
- Does this mean Windows on Apple?
- Apple moving to Intel – “yeah, but it ain’t going to be x86… is it?”
- Sin City: simply fantastic
- More tech please, Kevin
- BBC News used to promote 419 scam
- .xxx porn domain agreed
- O'Reilly Radar spots backstage.bbc mapping prototypes
- New Microsoft Office will save in XML
- Geek Dinner London, almost too late but not quite...
- Take the Search Engine Soda Challenge with Rusty
- Yahoo! publishes employee blog guidelines
- Meg Hourihan interview
May 2005
- I’ve written a bittorrent search engine too – and soon you can have it!
- I've migrated from b2evolution to wordpress
- Jenson Button starts the Gumball 3000 Rally
- BBC News on backstage.bbc.co.uk
- backstage.bbc.co.uk launches!!!
- Cory Doctorow on the BBC RSS license
- BBC News relaunches RSS
- Slow downloads with new version of Azureus?
- Paxman get's stuck in with Respect's George Galloway
- Vote 2005 - Be in the majority: stay at home
- Cool job @ Yahoo!
- View source in Flash...
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - GREAT film
- Did Adam sell out?
April 2005
- Top 100 brands on the Internet
- Have you typed "liar" into Google, recently?
- Microsoft wants your "future concept" user experience ideas
- Punters finally realise why DRM is bad
- List the perl modules installed on your box
- A study of the users and and uses of del.icio.us
- Get a free MMS tag
- Map of Terrorism
- Freetag: PHP/MySQL Tagsonomy pluggin
- Hardware hacking in Iraq
- Adobe buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion
- Too cliquey?
- The Creative Archive
- My PSP arrived!
- This blog never meant to get political, but...
- Why "maintream media" neads blogs
- Hacker Lessons
- Spoil your ballot paper
- Respect Party in Bethnal Green and Bow
March 2005
February 2005
- Protect your site from AutoLink, Google's evil side
- Bram Cohen technical talk on Bit Torrent
- Webcam security: proof it works
- A fast Internet connection: The paradox (part 1)
- Out-of-the-box things you can do with RSS
- You can now WriteToThem.com
- Back to the blog
- Broadband BBC News AV Console RSS feeds are back!
January 2005
- "Power of Nightmares" re-awakened
- London Conference: @Media 2005 (Web Standards & Accessibility), 9th - 10th June
- Apple present the "Mac Mini" but what's the deal for us Brits?
- The Times endoreses the BBC News AV Player for it's "online innovation"
- BSkyB patents "advert skipping" in TV playback - is this a blocking tactic?
December 2004
- London Underground Tube Delays in RSS!
- My blog friendly Flickr front-end PHP script
- Starbucks suffers social engineering prank
- For the second time ever, I got Scombroid Toxin Poisoning
- BBC News 3rd most linked to News source in blogs
- Yahoo! push Media RSS format extension
- Yahoo! launches Video Search Beta
- BBC launches "Popular and New"
- "The future's bright" - and we don't need to prove it...
- Beastie Boys
- Yahoo! licenses their brand, forgets to oversee design QA
- BBC to move it's new media arm to Manchester
- Lycos antispam site taken offline
- USB over IP
- As predicted Lycos' Anti-Spam Screensaver kicks servers off Internet
November 2004
- Is Google helping to perpetuate censorship in China?
- How to explode (online) TV news in four easy steps
- Lycos releases screensaver that DoS's spammers
- Online community a policy tool?
- Only 50% of UK homes consume Digital TV what happened to the other half?
- Forget the PSP, what about the PS2 Portable?
- AOL/Netscape call for browser beta testers
- MySQL "replace" is your friend
- Camera phones "a threat to privacy"
- "Rodeohead" do Radiohead (mp3)
- New MSN Search algorithm could _still_ do with a tweak
- New MSN Search algorithm could do with a tweak
- "Dual-use" bag on Ryanair
- Been busy, yet not much to write
- Comparion of US Election maps
- PHP MMS encoder and decoder
- Only 13% of Europeans want to watch video on a "portable video player" type device
October 2004
- The most stupid convergence device so far?
- Bush website confirms it's blocked Int' users in response to hacking
- Bush website blocked outside US
- Yahoo! News launches RSS Search
- Guardian's "lobby an American swing voter" hacked and deemed a failure?
- Yahoo about to ramp up their web service propositions?
- BBC News & BBC Sport Printable Digest
- Free book: We the Media, Dan Gilmore
- Google launches search for your PC
- Further improvements to my BBC News Audio Video RSS output
- Better access to audio/video material from BBC News Online... (+ RSS option)
