YouTube feed to Boxee feed converter
To get my 4oD Boxee app working I first had to convert Channel 4’s YouTube feeds into Boxee’s format. I’ve uploaded the converter as a separate app.
4oD on Boxee
I’ve had a crack at making a little Boxee app to let me watch 4oD from the comfort of my sofa.
Soft launch for You Might Not Know
Aiming to gather short tips about everyday life.
Me at TEDx
The video of my talk from TEDx Newcastle is up on the YouTube channel.
Dr. Frankenstory gets his own Lab
From the beginning of Frankenstory we wanted a way to showcase stories. Enter Dr. Frankenstory and his Frankenlab.
Stories and Experience at TEDx Newcastle
On Wednesday evening I had the pleasure of speaking at TEDx Newcastle, kindly organised by the good folk at Codeworks. I promised references to the various and assorted sources and here they are.
QIF Converter
I’ve been using Wesabe for a while now and I love it. Unfortunately only one of my banks offers transaction export. To patch that I’ve written a little converter…
Learning Ruby
A friend of mine wants to learn to program so I asked Lazyweb. Here are the links I got back.
The Barcamp PaperWiki experiment
Things are written on bits of paper and stuck on the wall. People can locate things spatially - grouping notes as they see fit - or connect related notes with bits of string. They can also write directly onto other peoples’ notes. Simple and fairly intuitive.
Little Known Readability Research
Plenty of people are still referencing The Elements of Typographic Style (understandably!) when talking about readability for the web but there are some more recent research papers to draw on too.
Frankenstory
As a kid, did you ever play that game where you write a few lines of a story, fold the paper over and then pass it on?
Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel Advice map
Over on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s website they have a nice long list of places you should and shouldn’t go, which I decided to plot on a map.
Community, Trust and Music
Trent Reznor was disheartened by fans not paying for the Saul Williams album but I think he proved that independent music can viably be given away. Selling 30,000 copies of a niche album in its first couple of month in the wild with zero promotion is pretty damned good in my book. I believe that they succeeded in making money despite a flawed execution. So here’s a manifesto, of sorts. A mix of ideology, marketing and psychology.
@media Ajax 2007
I have the honour and terror of presenting at @media Ajax on home turf this November. It’s a privilege to be speaking alongside the likes of Brendan Eich (creator of Javascript), Douglas Crockford
Etech is over
Etech is over and a great time was had by all. Our presentation was dogged by technical difficulties that meant I ended up using old slides but everyone seemed to enjoy it regardless.
Speaking at eTech
On Sunday I’m packing my bags and heading for San Diego for eTech. I’ve always wanted to go to eTech - it seems to be one of the most interesting events on the circuit - and this year I’m incredibly
Leaving freelancing
After 5 good years I’m hanging up my freelancing spurs and settling into a more sedentary existence. Well, not exactly. I’m becoming Head of User Experience at Trampoline Systems. As a small start-up
MySpace vs Facebook
I’ve been on MySpace for a while now, basically because loads of my friends are, but I’ve barely used it in the last 2 months, apart from checking on a few bands. It’s just too much hassle. It’s hard
The gold rush
The last couple of days at The Future of Web Apps has confirmed something I was talking to one of my friends about a few months ago… We have a gold rush on right now. There are a mass of little
Music, London and MySpace
The London music scene seems to be on fire at the moment! I can’t remember a time when there were more gigs to go to… In the last 10 days I’ve seen: Crystal Castles Danny Rapscallion of The
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