Category: Experimenting

  • Installing the Windows 7 RC experience

    The day draws closer for the general release of Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft’s operating system for PCs. The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) was made available on May 5. A ‘release candidate’ is a version of a…

  • Audioboo beyond the iPhone

    One of the hottest apps for the iPhone is Audioboo, a free services that lets you record up to five minutes of audio on your iPhone and then publish the recording to the web. It’s audio blogging made easy. I’ve…

  • Creating a business book made of tweets

    I’m taking part in an interesting experiment to create a business book entirely via 140-character comments posted on Twitter. It’s the brainchild of Toby Bloomberg: So what’s a Twitter-book you may be asking? It’s a book written using Twitter as…

  • Tracking the G20 buzz

    They can’t match the volume nor quality of the thousands of photos taken by professional photographers with cool cameras, nor those from many amateurs, but these pics I snapped with my iPhone from the BBC live TV coverage at just…

  • Now you can embed BBC videos

    I’m testing a new feature that the BBC is selectively rolling out – the ability to embed BBC videos in your own blog or other website. This feature is going to be very useful for anyone writing anything that references…