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 [...]

Technorati has fixed a bug which will impact the ranking of the top 100 blogs. This means it’s likely to impact the ranking of your blog if you have one. According to Technorati Over the holiday break we found and fixed a bug that inflated authority counts for certain blogs. The blogs affected were those [...]

I’m still struggling with the issue of running two blogs; the blog you’re reading right now and the BIMA blog. Most of my posts are applicable to both audiences, but there’s an overlap in those audiences. Some of you read both blogs. Do you read both blogs and if so, do you mind the duplication [...]

I woke up this morning to Google alerts informing me that a few bloggers had been talking about me (or Segala) while I was asleep. The one to mention was Damien Mulley’s blog post entitled ‘One to watch in 2008‘. Damien, a name that would appear on the list if it was for the fact [...]

Rather than type what I think, I’d like to share with you, my thoughts about the real difference between Europe and the Valley, as articulated by Eric Eldon on a TechCrunch post. This the best version I’ve read to date. My favourite quote is ‘think Hollywood for geeks’. Why is anybody comparing an entire continent [...]

I’ve been interviewed about my opinion regarding Web 3.0 on numerous occasions and thought it was time to write about it here as a way of drawing a line in the sand for future reference. It was actually Jason Calacanis’ twitter message about his definition that inspired me to put my thoughts on paper, so [...]

Actually Sam didn’t attend Le Web this year. I used his name badge instead, which many thought was quite creative, providing a lot of people with a giggle. It was actually a good conversational point. Thanks to Pat Phelan for the picture. Dan Applequist amongst others uploaded theirs to flickr. Pictures of my badge seem [...]