Tag: Google
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How should a user manage their passwords?
I was recently asked how a user should manage their passwords. This is a tricky topic and I have avoided biting the bullet until now but here goes, Considerations It is very important that user do not lose access to important passwords by forgetting them or losing access. Users are often the weakest link in…
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How Facebook and Google will eat the Internet
Most cars on the my local motorway are Fords, imagine if Ford bought the motorway… This is a very important article on how video is changing the topology, function and power balance of the internet: TLDR: Google, Facebook, Netflix will own it. http://qz.com/742474/how-streaming-video-changed-the-shape-of-the-internet/
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Keyapt – how to get an AJAX application in the Google index.
Our Android application Keyapt SMS is coming along nicely. Chris is tweaking the session management and I am doing the marketing plan. Keyapt SMS has three parts: the Android Application, the Web Client and the Keyapt Server in the middle that connects the PC to the mobile. The Web Client is a rich interface application…
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The semantic web on a platter – Google recipe search
The semantic web has made it to the mainstream in a rather surprising way. Recipe site owners have been marking up plain HTML pages with microformats that allow Google’s spider to understand the meaning of the content. This is much easier than creating two versions of every page – one for humans and one for…
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Apple eats core, business of publishers
To date Apple have “permitted” publishers to have apps on the iPhone and iPad that are media readers for content that is purchased outside of Apple’s platform. Spotify is a well known example. They have recently decided to levy a 30% toll on such subscriptions. Personally I think it is unwise to **** with the…
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Relative popularity of Java, ASP, Perl, PHP and Scala in print
When deciding what programming language to use for a project the answer is always “the one your team can use!” but even so it is interesting to compare the trends in the market. I have used Google Ngram Viewer to compare the frequency with which the names of various programming languages appear in books. If…
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Singing Opera’s praises; more clicks than Google
Since as a child I saw the Daily Mail headline: “Passengers hit by cancelled trains”, I have had a closet desire to be a sub-editor. Now at last as the publisher of my own blog I have that privilege so I hope you like this post title… Back to business. The title of this blog…
Dr James Bayley 