Who Would You Have Chosen To Take On Classified Ads If Not Craig Newmark?
If not Craig Newmark, who would you have preferred to run what we know as ‘Craigslist’?
Continue readingThoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator
If not Craig Newmark, who would you have preferred to run what we know as ‘Craigslist’?
Continue readingMySpace has confirmed that music uploaded to the service between 2003 and 2015 has been lost, with no hope of recovery. Did you all keep a backup?
Continue readingApple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google are not the 21st century Ma Bells in need of breaking up.
Continue readingYour data may be in the cloud, but can you safely export it? As another services closes, isn’t it time you should check?
Continue readingThe Guardian’s Ben Beaumont-Thomas talks to the team inside Microsoft who developed Comic Sans, and while the big takeaway is that the font was inspired by ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ is this little gem to rewrite history: My job was to match products to fonts, sort of like a marriage broker. Comic Sans was designed for Microsoft Bob, which in many ways was a precursor to Cortana or Siri – for people who had problems with computers. Presumably the Office Paperclip heralded Alexa?
Continue readingTomorrow the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be released to the public. For some reason Apple has never offered me the hardware to review ahead of a public launch, so I’ll be very close to the front of the line. After the purchase I’ll start reviewing the handset online, with my first impressions at the end of the day and a more refined review a week or two later. Thinking about how to review the device has sent me down an interesting mental path, partly because of the reaction to the existing coverage of the iPhone 7 and
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