Surely, one of the most popular buzz words since Web 2.0 has to be "Cloud Computing". The trouble is that there are many different schools of thought on what the Cloud is or should be. "Platform as a Service", "Software as a Service", "on-demand computing" and "Internet as a platform" are just some of the phrases used to define cloud computing. However you wish to call it, to me Cloud Computing is about history repeating itself, the next phase of a cycle. We're shifting software and data back from our desktop PCs to remote...
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Social What?
Social Networks have been around since before the internet itself. Ever since computers could connect to each other, so did the users at each end. The social networking heavyweights of today such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are just latest products of a long (and vicious) evolution of the genre. I’ve always had this sort of love-hate relationship with social media and as the products evolve so too are my feelings evolving into a love-to-hate attitude.
The Evolution of the Social NetworkThe roots of social media can be...
Sunday, 3 July 2011
Mobile Devices and Geolocation
The topic of mobile phone development is a minefield of myths, false truths and misconceptions. In this post I will try to clear things up a bit as much as I can and also take a look at how to exploit geolocation from our mobile devices.
The Mobile WebOne of the most common misconceptions I come across is that there is no need for a website to adapt to a mobile device. The reasoning behind this idea is the fact that the internet is platform independent and that the browser should do the dirty work. When faced with such an argument I tend to...
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