From this Friday I am looking for new things to do. I have pulled out of working full time at the company I co-founded. I will remain a director and major shareholder, and no Madgex is not in trouble in fact the opposite, it has just had its most profitable…
Last Friday I went to DevUp 2012 in Barcelona. The event focused on HTML5, but interestingly for me it mixed two different development communities. As well as web developers there is a whole world of games developers who are embracing HTML5 or more precisely Canvas. Darius Kazemi from bocoup did…
Let me start by saying the good friend is an API. Google have decided to close down the Social Graph API (SGAPI) on the 20th April 2012. I have spent the last couple of months thinking of a measured response, although I do somewhat agree with Jeremy Keith’s sentiment. />…
After giving a talking at UXCamp Brighton about Web Intents, I ended up talking to a few designers about it and how they would love to help with its development and adoption. In fact we all felt that the design community was sometimes left out of the development process, when…
Well what an amazing experience fullfrontal was this year. Had lots of fun doing the talk once I got my computer to display the slides (sorry about that). Big thank you to Remy for giving me the opportunity to speak and for putting on Fullfrontal. /> /> /> View more…
This Friday I gave small talk on microformats and SEO at the web agency Fresh Egg. They focus heavily on SEO as part of their offering and have become interested in marking up semantic data in web pages. This year Googles rich snippets have brought a whole new group of…
I ran a small session at UXCampBrighton last weekend about Web Intents. At the end of the session I was hoping for a discussion about the use of verbs in Web Intents, but the questions where a lot more wide ranging. As people grasped the concept they rightfully asked some…
There is a new concept forming at the moment called Web Intents. The name is a reference to the Android feature which allows applications to register their “intent” to handle certain types of actions. /> The screenshot above shows all the options for sharing an image on my Android phone.…
In June 2011 I made the journey to IndieWebcamp in Portland where Web Intents became quite a big topic. For an introduction to Web Intents read my last blog post “Web Intents - Gluing web functionally together” On the first day Chris Messina led a discussion that started with the…
A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at Brighton Skillswap called “The page and the desktop”. With some of the newer HTML5 APIs it is now possible to redesign how your web pages interact with the desktop. Web pages are all too often little islands that fail to…