Stuart Colville

Events

FOWA Notes: Crowd generated media - Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose: Digg.com Crowd generated media Digg ecosystem Why should the crowd care? How do you get people to interact with your site? Creating incentives on every level Why should people submit content (slashdot, del.icio.us) Slashdot has 500 new stories every day. I asked the founder What&

Events

FOWA Notes: Spotlight Sessions

Spotlight Sessions. Stephen Sokols BT four trends driving shift in the telco industry. 1. Traditional industry lines being blurred. Skype VOIP etc. 2. P2P tech is prolifereating 3. Advertiosing 4. 1:1 is not sufficient as we move to 1:many Progressive telecoms need to embrace the shifting landscape and

Events

FOWA Notes: "User" Rehab: A story of redemption - Bradley Horovitz

"User" Rehab: A story of redemption - Bradley Horovitz VP Advanced Development Division, Yahoo! Inc I grew up in Oakland. The word user has a different meaning! Laughter Dictionary definition of user from Wikitionary.com We have to move beyond "users" Turning users into people. We

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FOWA Notes: Lessons form Building The world's largest social Music platform - Last.fm

Matthew Ogle and Anil-Bawa-Cavia Last.fm MO: We connect people to music they love, event if they haven't heard it yet. How does it work? You just listen - to your own music. - Or the last.fm radio Share - your taste instead of files. - automative

Events

FOWA Notes: Everything you need to know about Venture Capital - Ben Holmes

Ben Holmes - Index Ventures Pan Eurpoean venture fund 1.3bn Euros under managemnent Based in London and Geneva. Examples: Zend, Skype, MySQL, netvibes, moo, last.fm, king.com. Overview of VC Size of market: US $25bn 1446 transactions $10.5m average investment Europe: 4.1bn Euros 867 transactions 14m

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FOWA Notes: Commoditisation of IT and What the Future Holds - Simon Wardley

Commoditisation of IT and what the future holds Simon Wardley - Fotango Commoditisation Back in 1997, Spic girls, I was good looking, Labour were new and exciting. I was working in the financial sector. yesterdays hotstuff -> Today's boredom Photo of prime minister + Turkey 1890's

Events

FOWA Notes: Fostering online communities - Tara hunt

Summary 1. What makes a community 2. Example of communities 3. Common community themes 4. Setting fertile ground for the growth of your community Characteristics of a virtual community Personal homepage Personal content creation Ability to interact with other's content ability to friend and share content Visitors don&

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FOWA Notes: The changing face of online communities and communication - Edwin Aoki

Edwin Aoki - Chief Architect AOL Where it all began. * Commnuity was a a key promise of the web Webmail is the leading driver of page views. Email 9.32% of all page views Chat and IM take to the web. All the sucessful sites Mike mentioned are based around

Events

FOWA Notes: The Magic formula - Mike Arrington

The future of startups and web companies The Magic formula Mike Arrington I'm scared of addressing brits due to TC uk, I want to say sorry for that. I want to talk about the difficulties European start-ups have. What's the right formula for a web start-up

Events

Future of Web Apps London 2007

So I'm here at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. It's a pretty full house and the hall is packed out. There are some noticeable differences to this year's event. First I spent about 10 mins trying to figure out where the

Wordpress

Moved server and fixed WordPress 2.1 Blogrolls

If you're reading this the DNS has successfully propagated. At the same time as updating the site I took the opportunity to upgrade to WordPress 2.1. Aside from needing to change the blogroll categories and update the function in the template all went fairly well. The blogroll

bash

BASH: Single-quotes inside of single-quoted strings

Using single quotes in BASH ensures that the shell doesn't expand the contents of the quoted string and this is useful most of the time. However if you want to use single quotes within a single quoted string things don't work out as you might expect.

Hosting

Media Temple Grid Server

I've been following with interest the progress of Media Temple Grid Server [http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/], as I am certainly interested in a hosting supplier that can give some level of redundancy and thus provide a seamless continuity of service should specific servers experience a hardware

Linux/Unix

SSH SOCKS Proxy

I first saw this tip a while back on the Ubuntu Blog [http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/] and it's a useful way of using SSH to set-up private web surfing. Not to mention I've come across several public wifi installs that leave port

OSX

MacFUSE: sshfs for your mac

MacFUSE [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/] is a implementation of FUSE (File-system in USErspace) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace] that is provided via a kernel extension. So what is FUSE? FUSE provides a easy way for anyone to create their own filesystem through providing hooks into

Apple

Apple iPhone

You're probably sick to the back teeth by now of all the coverage of the new iPhone but there's no wonder there's such a buzz around this device. It's a geek's dream with it's combo of useful features

Linux/Unix

Dedicated server recovery mode

This is really just a note for my future reference, but these details should pretty much apply to most linux servers that have a recovery mode. As is the case with several suppliers the instructions for how to mount the hard disk to fix problems are often left out or

2006

Happy New Year

Here's wishing everyone a happy new year and all the best for 2007. Cheers for a great 2006.

CSS

Bug: IE7 absolutely positioned italics

I recently discovered a rather bizarre bug that only seems to affect IE7 [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx]. If you absolutely position italic text of any kind (text made italic through authors styling or something that is styled via the default browser stylesheet such as ems.) IE7

CSS

Automatic merging and versioning of CSS/JS files with PHP

One of my colleagues Ed, has come up with a really useful PHP script that makes it trivial to concatenate and version css or js files on your site. What it does is takes an array of the files you wish to join together and it will create a versioned

JavaScript

Basic DOMTool Tutorial

I've had some brilliant feedback on DOMTool [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/domtool/] and several people have emailed me asking for a basic tutorial on how to use the output. So if you're familiar with using the DOM to add content to a page then this probably

JavaScript

DOMTool

I've had this idea kicking around for a while that it would be useful to build some kind of utility that took HTML as an input and output the correct DOM methods for inserting that content into a document. To start with I thought this would be some

Web Standards

No more iframes?

This morning I was perusing the links for light reading sent by Russ from the WSG when I came across this article: Insert HTML page into another HTML page [http://www.aplus.co.yu/web-dev/insert-html-page-into-another-html-page/], where the author had discovered a way to use the object element instead of

Life

A medicinal revolution.

No this isn't a post about how you can increase the size of your crown jewels. I've been an Asthmatic all of my life, this means for me every day means at some point I will suffer from shortness of breath, particularly from any level of

Life

Sean Antonio Monteiro Colville

Yesterday at 13:30 Sandra gave birth to our son Sean naturally, he weighed 3.794kg (8lbs 6oz). Both Mum and baby are doing in fine and Sean seems incredibly contented, let's hope that continues when we get him home. Our daughter Emma met him last night and