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Getting credibility on the web

We really liked the Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility, which we came across recently. They are pretty straightforward guidelines – pointers to how you should look to have your web pages configured to establish maximum effect with your visitors. They are here… 1. Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your [...]

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Getting credibility on the web

Flying back in time

There are some things you just have to write about. For me the return of Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of them. Dreams of earlier days sitting at my wheezing desktop, landing my plane at a California airstrip, as the hard drive and the machine RAM spluttered like the propellor. It’s going to return, it’s [...]

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Flying back in time

Small Basic – big concept

Microsoft’s Small Basic has reached version 0.9. Microsoft say that many bugs have been fixed and the system now works faster than ever. To see the updates in this version you can visit the Small Basic archive here. What’s it for? One thing is as a great entry level for young people into the world [...]

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Small Basic – big concept

Networked Nation Manifesto

Martha Lane Fox, the UK Digital Champion, today launches the Manifesto for a Networked Nation. This is a rallying cry for the use of existing technology and networks, both technical and community, to be used to get people online. Depending on the source, it it estimated that there are between six and ten million people in the [...]

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Networked Nation Manifesto

Real time underground

Matthew Somerville has, with support, created a real time, live London Underground map. See the trains, on their lines, move around the system. Matthew has not created a perfect image of the Transport for London system, but as an example of what can be achieved by a bright coder in a few hours – we think [...]

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Real time underground

Vote for the Information Pioneers

The Chartered Institute for IT has created a web site where you can read about and vote for your Information Pioneers. The current top five include Alan Turing, Sir Clive Sinclair, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Hedy Lamarr and Ada Lovelace. This latter entry on the chart might be surprising. How could a person who was introduced to Charles Babbage at a party in [...]

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Vote for the Information Pioneers

Microsoft Web Office – now live

Microsoft have gone live with their new free online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. You can access them thorugh your Windows Live desktop after signing in. The files are stored on your linked SkyDrive account and enable you to recall, share or edit files just as if they were on your laptop or PC. [...]

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Microsoft Web Office – now live

Can you handle a Zettabyte?

Researchers for the company Cisco have recently published their forecasts on how web traffic will look in the immediate future. Their findings indicate that all global web traffic will soon exceed half a zettabyte in just four years. Cisco determine that web traffic will double every two years until 2012. This means that the internet will be [...]

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Can you handle a Zettabyte?

Experiments in Chrome

Ryan Alexander has developed a fractal zoomer, a generator in Chrome, using the latest HTML5 and Canvas technologies. If you use a up to date browser with a fast java engine like Opera, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome or Safari 4 you can see Ryan’s browser based fractal generator here. Falling into a fractal is fascinating – mixing art, science and technology. Fractal [...]

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Experiments in Chrome

Google Docs extended and improved

Google have recently updated the features in Google Docs. Making collaboration easier and more effective, as well as adding a number of individual features in response to user requests. Docs now has margin rulers and much easier image placement properties. In spreadsheets you can now drag and drop whole columns of data. This movie gives you [...]

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Google Docs extended and improved