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Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, has been blogging about e-government, online politics, and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

Archive for 'wii'

Web 2.0 is just so 2008

5 January 2009 5 , , , , , , ,

I've never been one for New Year's resolutions or predictions; I'll leave those to other people. Suffice to say, I'm increasingly of the opinion that web 2.0, as a phase in the web's development, is over. I'm using almost exactly the same tools now that I was this time last year. It's ages since any [...] read on »

Home Of The Future at High St prices

16 December 2008 3 , , ,

Never has a nail been hit more squarely on its head than when Charles Arthur wrote his Guardian piece last week about how 'The digital home hub is finally happening': [Gates and Jobs's] vision is coming true. Except that it's not the computer they thought which is at the hub. It's a rather different one [...] read on »

Gordon Brown on your Wii

28 October 2008 0 , , , , , ,

One of the more inspiring developments at the BBC recently has been the extension of iPlayer away from the desktop PC. Back in April, they launched iPlayer on the Wii - but it wasn't the breakthrough moment it might have been. Leaving aside the fact it didn't stream especially smoothly on my machine, the interface [...] read on »

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