Category: Web 2.0

You Break The Rules In My House, You Leave My House. Facebook, Scoble and Where The Line Is.

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So how do you add to the conversation when there are so many views already floating around the blogosphere. I’m taking about the latest storm in a teacup, namely Robert Scoble being banned from Facebook for breaking the Terms of Service. So let me state this before elaborating. You break the Terms of Service, you pay the consequences. Yes Robert is an edge case, yes he can generate a lot of blog/PR flak, but the bottom line is he ran something that I’m damned sure he knew was against Facebook’s rules. Namely a script to take your contact data from

Valleywag Writers Get Their Bonus… By Talking About The Bonus

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So Gawker Media moves to a payment system for its bloggers that is part ‘flat fee for X posts per month,’ with a top up depending on the traffic you can get to each of your posts… something that we discover by reading the internal memo on Valleywag. A Gawker Media blog which is looking to stoke up it’s page count for the bonus. Who said they don’t make them smart over in California? Not surprisingly, this has lead to a lot of discussion about blogging and pay structures around the blog world. In all honesty, as someone who does

The Top TV Shows… via Bittorrent

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Via Mininova, it’s the top TV shows, as measured by downloads. 1 Heroes (2.439.154) 2 Top Gear (1.217.923) 3 Battlestar Galactica (706.209) 4 Lost (705.724) 5 Prison Break (608.487) 6 Desperate Housewives (457.805) 7 24 (524.303) 8 Family Guy (522.839) 9 Dexter (435.670) 10 Scrubs (427.420) What’s interesting isn’t the make-up of the shows – although having the UK motoring magazine show (ahem) Top Gear in at number two is , it’s the sheer number of people that are happy to watch their television from a computer screen, in some cases at a relatively low resolution when re-rendered onto devices

BBC.co.uk Launches New Technology Blog

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And here it comes, in the last dying breath, the latest blog from the BBC Website team. Dot Life (The Technology Blog), from the keyboards of Darren Waters and Rory Cellan-Jones is going to be an interesting read. I wonder just how enmeshed into Web 2.0 and cutting edge the blog will be, while maintaining the Reithian tradition of education. Time will tell, but it’s definitely one to add to your RSS reader. It’s certainly in mine. As to the future, I suspect this is another ‘trial’ that the BBC is doing. As Darren writes on Twitter (Update: although in

The Delights of “No Gmail”

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People following the blog will know that I’ve been using a temp email address this week – I’m now back using ewanspence at gmail dot com and all is well – So after asking around a few people, I think I’ve now a fair idea what happened to my Gmail account. The clue was that a similar thing had happened to my Ebay account, which also failed to recognise my password on returning from Heathrow. My 3G data card, used at Heathrow, also has Wifi. So while my laptop’s signal was off, there was still a route into the PC,

My Video Podcast, Podcamp Boston and the LOLSaurs

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Back from the travels, and the last stop had been Podcamp Boston. Two things of note from my point of view from the event. The first, of course, is that I’m more than happy now to tell people about “Spence” my video podcast. If you’ve not had a heads up yet then head over to the site (or subscribe to the feed). And if you’ve been holding back at my request in telling people about the show, consider that to no longer be in effect. Time to find a viewer! So in a sneaky move, the most recent episode (13)