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Archives for September 2007

links for 2007-09-25 (September 25, 2007) The best instructions I've seen to date on how to unlock an iPhone Really clear and they work. (tags: iphone unlocking unlock)...

Links for 2007-09-21 (September 21, 2007) GigaOm's fascinating diagram of industry share of smartphones fascinates me for a few reasons It's easy if you're in the UK to assume that all the early adopters are using Nokia phones. Obviously that's challenged by the iPhone, but...

Links for 2007-09-19 (September 19, 2007) Moo now has everything you need in place to make cards, stickers and notecards with photos from Facebook Lovely people, the Moo crew. It seems like a no brainer that they'd do a distribution Facebook app to get people's...

Links for 2007-09-18 (September 18, 2007) Beautiful pictures of Jodrell Bank Talking a bunch about Jodrell Bank at the moment, and looking at the lovely, lovely pictures....

Links for 2007-09-17 (September 17, 2007) Motion Blur interrogates my belief that PR is an intrinsically more cynical and fake process than human self-representation and expression on blogs (or elsewhere) This is another articulation of the idea that since all human beings attempt to make...

Visualising your last.fm listening... (September 16, 2007) I've been having enormous fun playing with Lastgraph over the last week or so. You tell it your last.fm username and it runs off and plots you a nice colourful graph that visualises your listening behaviour. I've been with last.fm...

On writing my talk for dconstruct... (September 16, 2007) A few people have asked me to put up my slides for the dconstruct talk. However, I'm going to be doing a variant on the talk at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin in a few weeks so I thought I'd let...

Links for 2007-09-14 (September 14, 2007) FiveRuns RM-Install appears to be a nice self-contained Ruby on Rails stack that you can just install on your computer fairly effort-free Of course, installing something doens't mean automatically that you understand it or how it works. I have...

Links for 2007-09-12 (September 12, 2007) Martin Klimas gets porcelain figures in total darkness and then drops them on the ground. The sound of them touching the floor triggers a light allowing a nearby camera to capture their 'moment of transformation' Extraordinary imagery (thanks Kerry)....

Links for 2007-09-10 (September 10, 2007) Chicken Yoghurt has a wonderful Open Source Press Release that I'd encourage people to read and post to their own sites... Solid and entertaining. The Government, in responding to a petition about the iPlayer being cross-platform, has said that...

Links for 2007-09-07 (September 7, 2007) Newsdesigner has linked to video from TED of awesome Microsoft photo-related exploratory semantic-ness... Fascinated to see where this goes next. Would be amazing on the surface table... Newseum is an interactive museum about news Best thing is that it...

Links for 2007-09-06 (September 6, 2007) Lord Justice Sedley has made the extraordinary statement that he believes that all of the UK's DNA (and the DNA of anyone who visits the company) should be permanently on file This really is quite extraordinary. With such a...

On Andrew Keen... (September 5, 2007) Andrew Keen makes me furious but I don't write about him as a rule. Why not? Because you don't feed the trolls. And I don't think I've ever seen anyone so clearly acting like a troll. I mean, you only...

Links for 2007-09-05 (September 5, 2007) Yay! Dopplr crew have got some nice sexy funding from Joichi Ito, Saul Klein and sundry other excellent people That means Biddulph gets to work on it more over the next couple of years. Happy-making. Little jealous. Fascinating interview...

Links for 2007-09-04 (September 4, 2007) Tom Carden responds to my comments about Twitter Blocks It seemed only fair to link to him so that people could hear his feelings about people's responses to them. Read my comment for more context. Eat 2 Love is...

Links for 2007-09-03 (September 3, 2007) Joel Spolsky talks about the lack of value that anonymous comments (or maybe comments in general) offer the blogger Allowing people to post without registering has been considered insane for online communities for a decade at least, and I've...

Links for 2007-09-02 (September 2, 2007) Entertained but a little puzzled by Twitter Blocks. Click here to look at my 'plasticbagUK' relationship blockgraph... I'm not sure this is much more than a beautiful and interesting folly, but it's beautiful and interesting which is more than...

Ben Goldacre vs. Clarion Communications (September 1, 2007) A lovely piece in the Guardian today, although I'm going to link through to the full uncut version on badscience.net because it's more curvacious and has a nice bounce to it: "Jessica Alba, the film actress, has the ultimate sexy...

Links for 2007-09-01 (September 1, 2007) Rumour is that Heroes is no longer going to be sold through iTunes in the US If this is because of rising tensions between iTunes and the industry over pricing, then the only thing that the industry has to...

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