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Feed Link Chains? should I get involved?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I found on GarryCon’s blog that the next self promotion ‘game’ has started its rounds. The concept is simple, take a list of blog feeds, sign up to them, post the list plus any extras you think are worthy. […]

1May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

The calm before the storm?

The whole Technorati favorites subject took a few new twists in the last 12 hours. I dropped a quick note over to Darren at Problogger to see what he thought of favorite.me. It turned out (as you can see from his post) that he was in the middle of writing an article about favorite exchanges. […]

30Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

Removing usability barriers

I wanted to just to recount a small piece of wisdom from one of Joel Spolsky’s books. I have been fiddling all day with favorite.me and one thing became obvious, that there was a ‘barrier’ that was stopping people using the site easily. Joel in his book devotes a whole chapter to the topic of […]

28Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Social networking experiment using Technorati API

I have today finished a mini-project that I started after having a minor brainwave. I had seen a lot of blogs recently being used to swap favorites, most notably of which was the experiment by DOSH DOSH. This required its users to add Dosh to their favorites, then post a comment saying they had done […]

27Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

University pre-entry requirements damaging our programming talents?

I was reading today that the Royal Society of Chemistry has posted a £500 reward to answer a mathematic quiz that the chinese use as a pre-entry level test for university. The test can be downloaded if you are interested in seeing how complex it is, but in my opinion its a million miles away […]

25Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Ultimate desktop display?

I found this while stumbling around. Its a ‘CineMassive MasterPlex 30D‘ It contains a 30″ Ultra-Premium Center Panel and 5 x 20.1″ Wings. Now how on earth do you feed it? Two graphics cards with two outputs each still would not cut it. But more to the point, you would need a bigger desk.

22Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued
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