Web 2.0 Summit: Open AOL

AOL has 'enjoyed' the unenviable position for many progressive thinkers in the web space of being the epitome of the closed garden approach, but in the last year they have managed to pull off a complete change of philosophy. Today's session coincided with announcements of AOL's continued move to openness and detailed in particular the APIs and open approach around AIM and video search.
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developer.aim.com

dev.aol.com

If even AOL are becoming open (and in a major way to boot) what does that say about shops that remain closed?

The presentation could have done with more usage examples but this is early days and work to date is still impressive.

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Starting afresh

So, this blog seems somewhat sparse for 2010, thats the effect of a mixture my focus being elsewhere and the blogger service altering its range of publishing options and me only just getting around to switching. The blog has now moved to techiedog.blogspot.com . Still ... onwards and upwards.

Rhombus live video

Here is a clip of us playing live on the London leg of G-Fest earlier this month.

Winter Wonderland

The first snow of the season fell here yesterday afternoon. So, I know I'm a 'grown up', but I can't help but get excited by such things. My Dad always said that people loose the wonder and excitement of snow fall once they have to start commuting to work. I'm lucky, if I look at the window and the roads are impassable, I don't have to bother heading off to the office. Thanks to the technology of my trade home working is habitual anyway. Is technology responsible for allowing me to keep a sense of wonder, and enjoy the vagaries of mother nature for what she is, rather than seeing her meteorological mood swings only in terms the effect of my daily grind. Maybe, or maybe I'm just an entry level weather geek! Whatever, come lunchtime I'm off to take Monty the dog out to play in the snow!

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