I had a recent inquiry from a deaf internet user (a potential student), something I can relate to. During school I only had 40% hearing. My hearing problems were picked up in junior school during a routine health check. Initially the examiner thought I was playing around. Only an operation would solve the problem, but [...]

You could be forgiven if your initial answer to that question is Dialup, Broadband or Mobile. For most, its a case of simply “turn it on”, but for others its more that than. I’ve heard people say “the Web is my lively-hood”. But, for some, reliance on the Web is much more than that. Some [...]

I picked up a post about search on GIGAOM, which helps me to demonstrate why I think Content Labels is the way forward, to help enable Trust in search results. I have lifted some of the post published on GIAGAOM and included their opinion at the bottom as a separate quote. Google’s dominance in online [...]

I stated recently that I wasn’t go to Chair or speak at conferences this year as I had my fill of them last year. I’ve already had to decline 2 kind offers to Chair very good conferences. So I’m being very picky about the events I attend this year. If I’m to Chair or speak, [...]

As you know, we ran a competition to find a new name for our Firefox extension. Aido and I went through the names and couldn’t find one we liked. So we thought… As a way of thanking everyone for their contribution, I decided to give away the iPod anyway. So, tonight I pasted everyone’s name [...]

We’re changing the name of our Firefox extension and we’d like to solicit your help in return for the opportunity to feel good and win an iPod Touch at the same time. The current working name is ‘Search Thresher’ which I’m sure you’ll agree, is too much of a mouthful. In order for you to [...]

Google recently launched their OpenSocial product, aiming to bring together APIs to build applications which are cross social network compatible. The idea seems great, I expected or hoped for the majority of social networks to follow suit, but Facebook have opened up their Platform Standards in competition. Perhaps Microsoft’s stake in the Platform has had [...]