Supersonic Feet

Brian Oberkirch has been on a bit of a blitz of great posts about social networking today (and I'm not just saying that because he picked up on bragster supporting hCard import yesterday). The one that I really liked is from "simple to obvious", in which Brian has a go at the propensity people have for ...

Tantek Çelik's slides from his talk on Social Network Portability are a very good, quick read as an introduction to supporting social network portability on your own site/service using microformats. The slides include real, practical demonstrations of how it can be done and having made a bit of a start (i.e. not a good-enough start) on ...

Yesterday my brother sent me a file through YouSendIt. As the person receiving the file, all I wanted to do was click the link in the email and have the download start. Instead, I was made to jump through hoops by YouSendIt's website before I could finally download the file I'd been sent. The email I ...

With the hype over Web 2.0, it's funny how many online advertisers are still using the same crass techniques of the web's earlier years. Within a minute of each other, I just got hit by three of the most annoying advert types while checking two websites. I loaded up an article on the Sky Sports website ...

One of the most simple uses for AJAX is to monitor form input and then let the user know whether what they've entered is likely to be acceptable/available (e.g. choosing a username at signup). Even so, there are ways to do it well and I just found one. I followed a link from the news on ...