Facebook just offered me an ’email’ account (username@facebook.com). Whilst I can’t see any clear way to actually access it in a useful POP/IMAP type fashion – not that I have any interest in such a thing – it still looks like an interesting development.
When Twitter fails you, who you gonna call? Not Twitter Help Centre that’s for sure!
Following the launch of the new Kraken javascript benchmarking tool from Mozilla I decided to run the tests on the browsers installed on my system. Here are the results (and as you might have guessed, IE8 doesn’t come off well)
Facebook is, apparently, rapidly approaching 500 million users. What does that mean? Well, numbers like these are a little hard to imagine, so I’ve tried to put it into perspective.
A little graphic demonstration of my computer usage over the past month or so. Stupidly excessive is a phrase that comes to mind.
My old borough of Ranelagh is brought to mind thanks to reCaptcha, a service that uses human input to help digitise books.
At the moment it’s not possible to simply rename a folder in Google Reader, unfortunately you have to go through a series of steps. This post outlines those steps.
Google Wave is finally in preview mode and people are starting to get on the system. Be interesting to see how it goes.
Yesterday the Google Reader team added a few features which make it even more useful.
Microsoft have launched Bing, their new search engine, which is really just Live Search reworked. Lo and behold it’s nothing but a branding mess.
