Watch Out Twitter Investors - Here Comes Identi.ca

My old Warrant Officer always used to say (in that low voice of menace) that you should never just state a problem, but state a problem followed promoptly by “here’s what I think we should do.” So if Twitter is Fail-Whaling, then we need another service. Lots of people have said it needs to be […]

Mowser Lives! Again! Bigger Future for the Smaller Renderer

Congrats to Mike and Russ for finding a silver lining to the Mowser experience - namely the purchase of the technology by the dotMobi folk.
The implications of the technology are discussed by Charlie far better than I could even summarise, so head over there to get the tech details, but I just want to say […]

Twitter Japan Is Here, as is Twitter Monetisation

Congrats to Joi Ito and the team at Digital Garage on the launch of Twitter Japan. While it’s still part of the core Twitter group (i.e. it is not a separate island of users), the nationalised interface should provide a much easier Twittering experience compared to the hoops that people went through at launch.
I also […]

Microsoft’s Live Mesh: Some Thoughts

So last night (or 5am for us Brit’s, what great timing) Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie unveiled Live Mesh, the 10,000 user beta of some of the ideas talked about at Mix08. In essence this is the start of Microsoft’s journey into cloud computing and ‘Somethng-as-a-Service’ facilities. The beta is now currently full up, but those signed […]

Scottish Gamers Realtime Worlds Garners Second Round Funding

Many, many moons ago, in that strange period between stopping at University and moving into the small enterprise and technology space, I interviewed for a position at a development house at Dundee. I’ve no recollection who it was, nor if they are still around, and I never went for it as the public transport links […]