September 13, 2008 at 9:12 pm · Filed under The Internet
Veritocracy is a new social news site that takes a bit of Digg and a bit of Techmeme and mixes it together to make a personalised page covering news topics that interest you. I managed to get my hands on a beta invite a few days ago, and so I’ve been testing it out. Read my thoughts and comments after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
August 30, 2008 at 6:23 pm · Filed under Tumbled
I’m a bit sick of websites asking me to register in order to leave comments. I don’t want to have to sign up for somewhere just to leave a comment on an article, when I probably wont leave another. Just let me put in my name, address, and URL, and let that be that. Like Disqus does. Perhaps everywhere should just use Disqus. Perhaps I should! Though I don’t require registration.
August 30, 2008 at 6:13 pm · Filed under Tumbled
Find, Follow and Share Comments — BackType
Definitely one to bookmark. via TechCrunch
August 28, 2008 at 3:57 pm · Filed under Tumbled
I remembered the name of the site that provides a similar server to the Personal Identity Pages I talked about a while ago, it’s called ClaimID
August 27, 2008 at 4:46 pm · Filed under Tumbled, Uncategorized
Sounds great. I just don’t like using Firefox on my Mac. It sounds like Quicksilver for Firefox, and I might give it a try to see if it’s useful.
August 5, 2008 at 2:23 pm · Filed under The blog
I haven’t posted anything in the past few days, to be honest things have been rather quiet - newsfeeds have been quiet so I’ve had nothing much interesting to post.
A few months ago I read a blog article (which I am now frantically trying to find to link to) talking about making a simple homepage for your name - to use in comment posts and forums - containing links to places you exist on the Internet. Why? Because if people are interested in what you have to say, then they can follow you on whatever service they like (e.g. Twitter, Flickr, or just your blog) which is better than just sending them to your blog, or your Flickr. When I read it, it sounded like a good idea, so I set one up. It uses a really simple design, with large fonts and a small ‘about me’ paragraph. Today Toby emailed me asking if he could borrow some of the code to make his own, which I was fine with. I think it’s a great idea, and if you have any sort of Internet presence, it’s well worth doing.
If you don’t want to make one yourself, services exist to do similar things, such as ClaimID (which uses web technologies such as OpenID and MicroFormats) or alternatively feel free to do what Toby did and borrow my source code. But be sure to link back to me somewhere (just in the source is fine), and leave a comment letting me know who you are. And if you’re reading this, why not follow me on Twitter?