Ringtones. The day of the fancy, polyphonic, clip-from-your-favorite-song-or-theme-tune ringtone is here. Especially in North Asia, it seems. And it’s annoying. It’s like hearing someone turning on a radio full-blast and then turning it off, and jabbering instead. Either you’re just beginning to get into the music, or recognise it, and it’s off. I thought I would… Read More »
In this week’s WSJ.com/AWSJ column (subscription only, I’m afraid) I write about online calendars, mentioning towards the end of it Backpack, an excellent online project and stuff organiser using Ajax. Here’s a slightly different version of the same thing, sproutliner: Sproutliner is a free web service that helps you manage your projects and ideas (think… Read More »
A new way to store identities on the Internet and saves you from having to type in your passwords all over the web? OpenID: an actually distributed identity system is a distributed identity system, but one that’s actually distributed and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business. An OpenID-enabled site/blog… Read More »