Archive for February, 2007

2020 vision

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Elements of the Labour Party (led by Alan Milburn, former Health Secretary and staunch Blairite and Charles Clarke, former Home Secretary) have set up a website designed to come up with new ideas for the party’s future called The 2020 Vision. It’s going to be all new media, with blogs and comments included. At the [...]

Posting from Google Talk

Monday, February 26th, 2007

This is an experimental post using an IM bot called imified.com. I’m writing this in GTalk, and this will apparently be posted to Waah. Whilst such a service is of slightly limited value (I can quite easily login to the Wordpress editor), it is slightly quicker. This might make me do more short, Twitter-style updates [...]

Google will buy FeedBurner

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I’ve written before that I think Google should buy FeedBurner, and I think (for admittedly very tenuous reasons) that the acquisition might be getting closer:

The GReader Team just announced that Google Feedfetcher would report subscriber numbers when requesting feeds. This is essential for services like FeedBurner to get accurate numbers (as Google only fetches a [...]

BBC web principles, etc

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Well worth a read for anyone behind a website.
BBC’s 15 Web Principles
They are the basis of a new strategic review being conducted by the BBC of its web strategy, and I think they make a lot of sense, not just for mammoth organisations, but any organisation which isn’t purely aimed at one very specific [...]