Archive for the 'Ben Ward's Journal' Category

Talking about the importance of disclosure control in location-based applications.

As may have been noted lately, I’m leaving the UK and moving to San Francisco this summer (sometime early August). To celebrate the fact, and try to engineer the opportunity to see Everyone I’ve Ever Known one last time, I’m declaring the weekend of July 26th and 27th to be Ben’s Great Getaway Weekend. Two [...]

Apple have launched Me.com and are citing Web Standards whilst blocking users of Microsoft Internet Explorer. A shame then that there’s not a trace of web development best practice to found in this clusterfuck of a web app.

At BlogTalk back in March and again at BarCamp London 4 last week I did a session on the foundations of Distributed Social Networking; a simple guide through the basics of describing ourselves and social relationships with XFN and hCard and how they can be pulled together to do some first-step but useful things.

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An excerpt from Smile’s online banking system.