chris @ November 4, 2007 # Comments Off
In the end, it was Scrabble that did it, or rather, the Scrabulous Facebook application. Oh, don’t bother clicking on the link unless you are logged into Facebook: non-Facebook users won’t get anywhere. This is precisely why it took me so long after all, why I was less than enchanted by open-to-all apps and services […]
chris @ June 19, 2007 # Comments Off
So it’s over, and what a great experience it was.
(And not only because one of my pictures was used by the Guardian technology blog!)
Sure, there were annoyances. You’d think someone would have figured out how to provide stable wifi, even for a few hundred power users. And the joy at getting to keep the lovely […]
chris @ June 17, 2007 # Comments Off
As I type, the geek crowd is mostly massed to the left and right of the center stage, chatting and last-minute hacking in the dark, by the glow of our laptop screens. The wifi is up, for a change. The mood is relaxed, though a teeny-tiny bit sleepy at times. We just got nice sandwiches […]
chris @ June 10, 2007 # Comments Off
So I’m attending the London Yahoo! Open Hackday, which will take place at Ally Pally next weekend. (Squeee! They accepted me!). I’m much looking forward to it, unwashed geeks and all. The idea is to hack up something within a day, preferably using the various Yahoo!/Flickr/BBC APIs. I’m not much fazed — I’m not going […]
chris @ June 4, 2007 # Comments Off
Social software can be dangerous. Lesson to learn: Lying has harder for those who live the life of pervasive immediacy.