Posted by admin on May 31st, 2008 |
0 commentsWill this actually make it through? A net neutrality bill has just hit the Canadian House of Commons! A landmark piece of legislation.
“The NDP is “very wary” about the government intervening in the internet, Angus told the House of Commons. But the bill isn’t about regulating the internet, it’s about ensuring there will be scrutiny of those who provide access to it, he said.”
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Posted by admin on May 29th, 2008 |
0 commentsJust checking in on YYZtech.ca this evening and noticed a whole lot of ads for the Sex And The City movie coming out this week. Now I’m guessing they where targeting city-specific sites, otherwise, I can’t figure out how we ended up with these ads? Just one of those strange things.
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2008 |
0 commentsBesides that hack there’s a whole lot more on gMail and rest of the Google eco-system (Blogger, YouTube, etc.)
One of the new style O’Rielly Hack books, this one looks at how to use Google’s applications through a series of short examples (aka hacks) covering, not just the office applications, but many other applications under the Google banner. For web designers, there’s a lot of material here too on how to integrate Google’s services into your own website.
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Posted by admin on May 19th, 2008 |
0 commentsI haven’t updated this blog in a while, but that’s not to say I haven’t been blogging pre-say. I realized a few months ago that most of my blogging had moved to Twitter.
Why? Well there’s a few reasons:
- via its gMail interface, blogging is as simple as sending a text message, making it very immediate
- the restrictions (160-odd characters, no images, short urls) make tight writing a necessity
- you don’t feel like you have to write 2-3 paragraphs (that’s me) when you can sum things up in a sentance
- the social aspects – it’s not Facebook, but that’s probably a good thing – really if i want post an album, I can use Flikr
- the 3rd-party apps – there’s a whole host of things built on Twitter’s api, from search engines like TweetScan to Twitbin there’s a lot of interesting things being built around it.
- it’s fun
Blogging certainly has its place, but if you’re looking for something less formal- and quite possibly the way things are going, give it a try.
