Category: Web 2.0 (Observations)

Not Too Simple A Task, Please, Google

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If Google are to launch a To-Do list (as reported via an eager TechCrunch reader) then I really do hope they make it as simple as possible… but with one caveat. Have some sort of folder/labels arrangement in the same way as Gmail. The reason for this is because to make a good To-Do list application for the real world, there needs to be a touch of filtering applied. One of the greates To-Do list applications, in my mind, was that on Palm III PDA machines. There was very little screen clutter (you had 160×160 pixels and that was it),

TPN Rock Live – Streaming and Podcasting Together

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One of the rules I have when I do my music show podcasts is that I always do it live. No skipping through the music tracks I’m playing. After all if they don’t hold my attention, how can I expect them to hold the attention of the listeners. The ability to go live, against the clock, is a very useful one, both for podcasting and broadcasting in general, but in many presentational areas in life. It also means that when I had the idea to hook the output of the sound board back into the laptop so I could stream

Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter

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Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that: “I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.” Stanley Kubrick pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke. So what did Kubrick know that we didn’t? And have we got ourselves a “Mineshaft Gap 2.0” between the tweets and the, ehrm, tweezers?

The Next Big Thing After Twitter? Moo.com

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One of the questions that was raised before this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival was which (if any) product would rise to prominence in the heat of the Texan spring. The simple answer, now we’re all home, seems to be that the next Twitter is… Twitter. While a number of other services did pop up on the horizon (many of them based around live video streaming or interactive video), the fact that yet again Twitter managed to act as a distributed chat room (both distributed over time and space), it helped everyone navigate around the parties, and this year

Flickring at 25fps – Video Crashes the Still Party

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Techcrunch is reporting (and demoing) Flickr Video. Short summary; Pro users have the ability to upload a video into their account, as long as they are under 90 seconds and 150 mb. I’ve not played around with it yet, but I’m skeptical that the Flickr community actually want this. I have to assume the Flickr team has thought (and fought?) long and hard over this one. The explosion of mobile video in the last six months (Seesmic, Qik, Bambuser, etc) must have focused them on the task at hand, but if they have been plannig this for a while (as