BBC iPlayer goes social

By tim, on May 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from the BBC’s press briefing on the new iPlayer. This is a public beta. The press release is here.

The big story is that social media features are now integrated. The idea is that you can post recommendations (or otherwise) to Twitter and Facebook about programmes you are viewing, or participate

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May 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: bbc, facebook, twitter | One comment

Future of Web Apps cheers the independent Web

By tim, on October 2nd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The Future of Web Applications conference in London is always a thought-provoking event, thanks to its diversity, independence and character. That said, it is a frustrating creature at times. The frustration on day 1 was the barely functional wi-fi, which ruined a promising interactive application called HelloApp, built with ASP.NET MVC. HelloApp would have

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October 2nd, 2009 | Category: .net, adobe, cloud computing, facebook, flash, javascript, microsoft, open source, ruby, software development, twitter, visual studio, web authoring | 3 comments

O2 router attack shows danger of staying logged in

By tim, on September 9th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Concerned about web security? One thing that may prove more valuable than any amount of supposed security software (anti-virus and the like) is the simple good practice of logging out of web sites at the end of each session.

Here’s the reason. Let’s say you are logged into some site – could be Facebook,

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September 9th, 2009 | Category: facebook, google, security, twitter, web authoring | One comment

Flash library for Facebook, Silverlight library for MySpace

By tim, on March 31st, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe and Facebook have announced that ActionScript 3, the language of Flash 9 and higher, is now officially supported by FaceBook along with JavaScript and PHP. Information about coding for Facebook with Flash is here, and the library itself is on Google Code.

MySpace has announced the MySpace Silverlight SDK which will be hosted

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March 31st, 2009 | Category: .net, adobe, facebook, flash, microsoft | Leave a comment

Cloud computing means exporting your IT infrastructure to the Internet

By tim, on March 13th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve just attended my first cloudcamp unconference, held during QCon London. We ended up debating how you would explain cloud computing to a non-technical audience. The problem is that different people mean different things by the term.

The consumer perspective is to do with running applications and storing your stuff on the Internet. Gmail,

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March 13th, 2009 | Category: cloud computing, facebook, google, salesforce.com, virtualization | Leave a comment

Facebook as groupware

By tim, on February 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

There was a brief interview with Joe Gilder, a student at Bristol University, on the BBC Today programme this morning – why does he use Facebook, which is 5 years old today?

For me it’s the most important thing around. I know exactly what’s going on everywhere through what’s on my Facebook profile.

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February 4th, 2009 | Category: cloud computing, facebook, internet | One comment

BBC looking at OpenID for iPlayer social network

By tim, on December 11th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

At Adobe’s MAX conference in Milan last week I spoke to the BBC’s Anthony Rose, who runs iPlayer at the BBC, and wrote this up for today’s Guardian. One of the things we discussed is social networking planned for iPlayer, where you will be able to see comments, ratings and recommendations from your friends.

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December 11th, 2008 | Category: facebook, google, internet, microsoft | Leave a comment

Salesforce.com linking with Facebook, Amazon

By tim, on November 3rd, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, where Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, and co-founder Parker Harris, are presenting new features in the force.com platform.

The first is a built-in ability to publish your Force.com data as a public web site. The service is currently in “developer preview” and set for full release

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November 3rd, 2008 | Category: amazon, facebook, java, php, ruby, salesforce.com, web authoring | Leave a comment

Facebook Chat thinks I’m running IE6

By tim, on May 21st, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Facebook needs to work on its browser detection:

If I click the button it tells me I have IE6. Perhaps a sneaky promotion for Firefox?

Technorati tags: facebook, chat, ie6,

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May 21st, 2008 | Category: facebook, internet | Leave a comment

Amazon, eBay, FaceBook: the risk of building your business on a third-party platform

By tim, on April 7th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

We are seeing web giants flex their muscles. Here’s three instances.

FaceBook’s frequent platform changes make it tough for small developers to keep up – I blogged about this recently.

Amazon declares that Print on Demand sales on its site must use its own printing system, causing consternation for rivals like Lightning Source.

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April 7th, 2008 | Category: amazon, apple, ebay, facebook | One comment