Alexander Williams

“At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit more...

Meebo, which has about 6.5 million members, will be looking to make money on the applications through embedded advertising. The company will share revenue equally with developers.

“Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with more...

have big, gorgeous and good quality images by default

“Draftastic is a new kind of collaborative editor. We make it easy for lots of people to edit documents at the same time, live, without needing special software or getting in each other’s way.”

“News came today confirming Google’s plans for Chrome, its own open source browser based on Webkit. This is big news. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much bigger than this, at least in my little shed on the more...

Another explanation on how a Pakistani ISP was able to block the world's access to videos of exploding jelly.

A Bayesian learning link-recommender. Not quite as keen as Jaanix, simply due to interface, but interesting in it's own right.

The more wallpapers you rate, the more intelligently Socwall can recommend other wallpapers to you.

Presented with a 20-fold increase in selectable items, it's not too difficult to see why traditional keyboard navigation techniques completely break down. They were never designed to handle such complex navigation scenarios.

"Is Joost going to last the year?" asked Mike Butcher at Techcrunch last month, after it emerged that the company had fired its chief technology officer - who on the same day joined the BBC's iPlayer project.

“Armchair detectives rejoice! One of the most useful free tools has been launched for use by the professional and amateur alike to delve into strangers, friends and neighbors criminal histories. If you have ever suspected that the weird neighbor you more...