Last year Josh and I played with QR codes. One of the prototypes we’d been sitting on has finally seen the light of day- a QR code for every photo on Flickr. It does require you use Firefox and have Greasemonkey enabled.
Check out Josh’s video demo. If you have Firefox & Greasemonkey install it now.
dConstruct is happening again soon & tickets go on sale on Tuesday. Historically it has been the best web conference in the UK and this year I’d imagine will be no different.
If dConstruct is on, that’ll mean dConstruct pre-party, if the dConstruct pre-party is on that’ll mean ‘pre-dConstruct pre-party Burgers’, it’s almost tradition now for some… one of GBK’s finest burger’s with great webby folks before a slow-burger-walk to the official dConstruct pre-party for fun & games.
Add yourself to the Upcoming.org event so I can warn GBK in advance.
Update: John McCrea, VP of Marketing at Plaxo commented- there was a bug. They’ve responded quickly and the bug has been fixed & deployed. I can’t confirm this, but it’s good to hear. Well done to John & team.
Plaxo (recently acquired by Comcast) you might remember for their old spammy habits. Since their launch of Pulse however the reviews have been more positive- can you get worse reviews then being classed as spammers?
Today I was looking through my Google Analytics & noticed what I only hope is a mistake. I received a visitor with this referrer:
/?src=PulseWeeklyDigestV2&et=20&requiredUser=77309776589
&loginEmail=kram@kramng.co.uk&el=en_gb&forceSignin=1&
(email address edited as not to republish)
… I know exactly who that visitor was as Plaxo released his email address. Yes, released his email address. RELEASED HIS EMAIL ADDRESS.
If this isn’t a one-off and this code runs in production they are effectively releasing email addresses for anyone who clicks on links in their emails from web clients. Possibly all their emails, or maybe just their “PulseWeeklyDigestV2″, I can’t check as I don’t use Plaxo. Right now I’m glad!
Over on Spread Firefox they’re trying to set a Guiness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. Over on Pistach.io we thought we’d support their efforts by giving a pro bono advert to their cause.
We don’t plan on this being a one-off, feel free to suggest other open source and/or charitable organization for us to consider.
Congratulations to Gra & Libby, two friends of mine for launching Nodestone. Nodestone is their new Brighton based consultancy focused on helping & educating those who want to “do good stuff in the world”, using social media.
Today they announced their learning package for charities, non-profits, social enterprises, community and volunteer sector. If you know of anyone who’ll benefit from this package, or more generally: reflective; practical support, with a social & eco twist pass it on!
I’d like to expand on my tweet:
Web backup services need to take ideas from netflix.. moving large data efficiency in eyes of the masses
I want to use a web based backup service. Something that just works in the background, throttled as not to affect my bandwidth too much. The problem is they want me to upload all my data. How many gigabytes, or even terabytes do they expect people to upload? So here’s my opinion & suggestion. It’s based on no metrics, just opinion. Here’s what should happen:
From then on, their service works fine, like they currently do. Online & in the background, just without a ~50Gb barrier to entry. Then service can either keep the CD/DVD’s as a hard copy (extra backup), or make sure they’re RW’s and reuse them. Note security issues of re-using though.
Why do I compare it to Netflix? General public has a problem with large amounts of data, they leave it up to their IT expert. However, general public has no problem with posting movies (large amounts of data). I think it is a pretty safe assumption (again, based on no stats) that people have CD-RW or DVD-RW drives these days.
Thinking ahead when can solid state media take over & make that assumption redundant? When will uploading be fast enough? What about posting cheap 40Gb hard drives? Time machine?
Spotted just outside The Werks, Hove. It caused me to double-take before a rush of thoughts came to my attention.. why is it not in use.. it is in use, I just used it.. was the aim to stop people using the crossing.. was it to warn users of a change.. does the island imply crossing.. don’t dictate to me what is or isn’t in use by me.
From there I was left wondering how perception is altered, if at all by a sign like this, it’s aim after-all is safety. Is the perceived threat of using the crossing increased? Did I act accordingly with increased threat. Did I even note the increased threat.
You get the picture.
Given the title I imagine Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox have just popped into your mind. Forget 90% of what you’re thinking and consider that more & more browsing is being done on other devices; iPhone; mobiles; Wii; PSP; etc.
How easy is it to install multiple browser and select them as the default browser on those device? For the most part, it isn’t. Wasn’t that the sort of anti-competitive behavior that landed Microsoft in it back in 2000?
Why won’t it happen, yet? When Apple created the iPhone and Safari for iPhone they didn’t knock any iPhone browser businesses’ market share down - there wasn’t any. And although if you dig into the depths of that, and analyze it more broadly, yes I’m sure they dented the market share of RIM, but to the general public these companies are creating new places to browse, on your: TV; gaming console; portable gaming console; virtual world.
When it’s understood by the lawyers that browsing is browsing is browsing, not browsing is a personal computer function. Who knows, maybe the law suits will appear? Maybe everyone learnt from last time?