From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Twitter censorship?

by Shane Perris on Monday, 28 April, 2008

in news

Trust Australians to take a frivolous and whimsical web service that was starting to take itself too seriously and get really immature with it.
:D
Bless each and every ███████ one of you, you █████!

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Data Portability: do normal people even care?

by Shane Perris on Friday, 25 April, 2008

in opinions

Data portability is the idea that individuals have control over their data online and can determine how they and others can use that data (if at all). Some examples of what data portability could be include:

your profile ‘auto-filling’ when you join a new site
exporting details of your social network contacts to an [...]

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How to stream mp3s with Yahoo Media Player

by Shane Perris on Wednesday, 16 April, 2008

in how-to, tutorials

A nod of the head to Amit at Digital Inspiration for pointing me in the right direction for the Yahoo Media Player with his post “How to embed mp3 audio files in web pages”.
There are two versions to the Yahoo Media Player – a javascript based version and a Flash based version.
For the javascript version, [...]

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Has Radiohead missed the point?

by Shane Perris on Thursday, 10 April, 2008

in opinions

Radiohead has once again hit the headlines with an ‘innovative’ new media way of promoting the band and the music. They have broken down their latest single ‘Nude’ into 5 stems (vocal, guitar, bass, drums, the rest) and made each available to buy exclusively at the iTunes music store for fans to download, remix [...]

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