Category: Technology

  • In today’s cloud you need a local backup

    Over an early-morning cup of coffee, I read an op-ed piece in the the New York Times by Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (a book I read last year). Zittrain’s op-ed…

  • WordPress update addresses XSS threat

    An update to the WordPress platform, version 2.8.2, was issued earlier today that addresses a security issue known as XSS or cross-site scripting. It’s an unexpected update, given that version 2.8.1 was released less than two weeks ago. But good…

  • Making connections at WordCamp UK 2009

    It’s a bit blurry but there’s no mistaking the youthful Matt Mullenweg pictured at WordCamp UK in Cardiff yesterday. I took this pic of the WordPress founder on my Nokia N95 8GB at full zoom from my spot at the…

  • Easy FT on the iPhone

    The Financial Times has joined the growing group of media companies offering an easy means for readers and subscribers to access the newspaper’s online content from wherever they happen to be via a bespoke app for the iPhone. Today the…

  • Google embraces Twitter

    Google has 46 separate Twitter accounts when I looked just now. Like every other company looking at tools like Twitter, they’re no different – Google people want to be where other people are online. Clearly, Google-owned Jaiku (remember that?) isn’t…